It is so nice to know that the Mexican festival to honor and remember the dead is all-inclusive… and, that that inclusion extends to the afterlife.

I hope you have enjoyed these posts of Old Town in San Diego, and my first day hanging out with my English relatives…

I hope you learned a little about the history of Southern California…

And also a little about the Mexican heritage that is such a large part of that history.

Yes, I did a lot of walking in order to get all these pictures…

I wanted to capture the color and vibrancy of the local art…

And I tried to tie it all together with some amusing observations and stories.

But in the end, I really do this for me as much as for you…

Because when I do these posts, I get to relive the day.

And that was a great day! Okay, there is one more post coming about the first day my relatives were here, and then we move on to day two… and day three…

And for those of you who never bothered to Google what ‘dia de los muertos’ is all about, here is a brief explanation.