Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Casitas?






While traveling the countryside the other day, we came upon what appeared at first glance to be a small gated community. Upon closer inspection, however, it turned out to be a cemetery. It was completely different from any cemetery I have ever seen, however. Each building belongs to a family where they inter multiple family members. The photo below shows one of the mausoleums under construction (the bottle in the middle right section is an empty bottle of tequila -- guess even the dearly departed around here need their tequila).
Each mausoleum is decorated differently, and made to look like a casita (small house). Some of the mausoleums even have small fenced yards in front of them, and there are enough fake plastic flowers in this place to fill an entire Hobby Lobby, I'm sure.