A Wedding

The other English teacher at Karl's school, Angeles, invited us to the wedding of her nephew a couple of weeks ago.  She met us near the highway and we followed her to a small town about an hour or so away from Puebla.  We stopped at her father's home first, and he showed us his fruit trees and geese.  Then we headed to a tiny church on a hill.

Here's a picture of the church all decorated for the wedding. The ninety-two year old man to the right is Angeles' father.

Here comes the bride! You can see how small the church is.  Everyone arrived at the last moment, so by the end of the wedding there were more people standing under the awning than sitting inside the chapel.

Here is a picture of the bride and groom covered with confetti (we don't know who is standing with them - but we guess they know them somehow:)).  Our kids enjoyed throwing confetti and blowing bubbles as the bride and groom came out.

After the wedding, there was an outdoor reception.  Mole is the traditional food at weddings, so we were treated to that along with rice and tamales.  Everything was delicious.  This is what the pot of mole looked like after feeding around 100 guests.

The cake looked beautiful.

Karl and Angeles, the English teacher who invited us.

Chiara makes friends with a dog.

We loved these beautiful red birds that we saw there.  They are a type of cardinal.

We passed an onyx factory on the way from the reception back to Angeles' father's house where we left our car.  The man working there showed us his shop . . .

. . . and some of his work.  This piece still needs the final step which polishes it.  After leaving the town where the wedding was, we stopped in the next closest town, Tecali.  This town has a lot of onyx factories and onyx gift shops.  The kids really enjoyed looking around, and Joseph was especially happy when he found an onyx "sacrificial knife" with a bone handle which he purchased with his money from Grampy.