When in a small city like Colima, it can get boring really fast. The malls are not really malls in the way that we consider a mall. They may have about 25 stores in them, and the stores aren't that great. There is usually a Sears in one of the malls, and that is their big department store. The movies don't play until at least 3 months or more after they start playing in the states. So, you can easily find yourself without something to do. When some friends called up and asked if I wanted to go to the cemetary with them, I thought they were crazy! And they were, but it was probably from lack of entertainment. At any rate, the cemetary was different than any I have seen here, so I took some pictures. There was a poor part of the cemetary that only had wooden crosses made of twigs or markers made of glass bottles.
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An age-old occupation. :)
I'm always interested in old or unique cemetaries. In Anne of the Island (I'm pretty sure that's the one) Anne Shirley and her friends spend some time at the cemetary, too. It seems people don't change that much in 100 years!
-Anne
I frequently visit cemeteries when I visit other countries ... why are the ones here in the States never as impressive?
When I was a kid, I remember driving past a unique cemetery with a friend's family. The dad, who was driving, said to me: "That's a special graveyard, you know. Only a certain kind of person can be buried there."
I took the bait and asked, "What type of people?"
"Dead ones," he replied. Then he laughed for about 10 minutes at his own dumb joke.
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