Semana Santa here in Copan is a very big deal and members of the Catholic church create rugs that cover the street made out of sawdust. They first put down a layer of natural colored sawdust over the entire street. They then fill it in with colored saw dust using templates. They started at 5pm on Thursday and worked all through the night to finish them. You can look at them all day Friday and then they have a procession that walks on them and destroys them late at night. It was very fun to see them but it was crazy to think that all that hard was destroyed just hours later.
Here is Zach watering the carpets to keep the dust down during the day. This is his second year helping with them.
There were also some carpest made out of pine needles and flowers. This one was complete with watermelon!We have also been busy this week because a group from our church is here from Arizona. They are a photography group here working on a project. We spent a lot of time helping them and many of our friends were part of it.
This is a very sweet old couple from church. He cuts wood for a living and she is a midwife. They were so excited to be a part of this.
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