Last weekend I went to Santiago to stay with Sergio again. The weekend was full of great activities such as climbing, eating meat, seeing dead bodies dissected and placed in silly positions, watching Catholics drink at ten in the morning at a religious parade on Sunday, and more climbing.
To clarify some of that.
Rest assured the dead bodies were in a controlled environment. The Bodies Exhibit is in Santiago for the next few months and I could not pass up the opportunity to see a complete circulatory system outside of a body and fetuses (what is the plural of fetus? Is it like cactus: feti?) in jars. At first I was wondering where someone could find so many bodies to play with but then I realized that they were all Asian and it probably isn't that hard to find a plethora of unclaimed bodies in China.
On Sunday we went to the Quazi Moto parade near Sergio's house to see some caballos (horses), Santi's favorite animal and word. The parade happens every year after Easter and traditionally it was the day that the Catholic priests brought all the money down from the local churches to the main casa del Dios. All the huascos, or cowboys, would come out and escort the Priests, protecting them from robbers, along their journey. Today the priests don't really need to worry about robbers, just drunk guys on their horses.
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The fetuses joke reminds me...
What's the difference between a dead baby and a Porsche?
xoxo
glad to hear m.a. went well for you cabros. for suuure thought of you from the smoke. q locura, no? very fitting for the smogssmallblog though...
The word is "Cuasimodo" not "Quazi Moto."
The meaning you indicate is wrong too, this is what is it:
"On the Sunday after Easter, parish priests in colonial times went forth to take the Holy Sacraments to the elderly and infirm who couldn't get to church on Easter Sunday."
Thanks for the correction...guess I should have done some research before posting, all my info was word-of-mouth.
happy trails.
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