Holiday Discussion Thread

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

Today is more important for us. On the 1st of November, we go round various cemetaries to say hi to our departed relatives and place nice bouquets of chrysathemums everywhere.
That's where we're going now. Photos to come, if I don't forget.

I love this day. I've never participated though (yet). Do you have drinks and picnics with your departed? Some cultures do.

If I remember rightly, the whole picnic thing is a hispanic tradition. We just go to the cemetaries, pay our respects to our family, and walk around listening to the older folk talk about who is where.
In one cemetary, there was a section for people who had died in hospital and hadn't been claimed. I felt sad, so stayed there for a while wondering about who these people were.

So many flowers though !