and don’t the mexicans go and have picnics in the cemetery on dia de los difuntos too?
We used to have one in the old cemetery when I was little, but after my grandparents died, that had been shortened to a visit to bring flowers and to sit and pray for awhile. When the aforementioned aunt was alive, she would tell the departed ones what all had been going on in the family. That is done when you make the altar, too, as you decorate it.