Semana Santa

The Wednesday through Saturday before Easter Sunday where most Mexicans take a vacation and head to the beaches for camping, family time, drinking, relaxation, and fun. San Carlos is a popular destination and our town at least doubled in population. Our beaches were packed as were our streets.
Us locals do all our shopping by Wednesday and hunker down at our homes and wait this time out. Most of the local businesses close and every available space is taken by revelers and/or opportunistic folk. This convenience store remained open but would only allow a certain number of shoppers inside. The doors were locked and people waited outside in a line until they were allowed in.
You do not even try to travel our roads in the evening as going the 3 mile distance of our entire main drag can take up to 3 hours. We did ride through the beaches (and came across this rattlesnake)
and our main drag on Thursday night on our new ATV.We walked our main drag on Saturday night with friends and were the only 'white' people (and probably the oldest). We participated in the fun and drinking. Several Mexicans engaged us in conversation finding it very interesting that we lived in this town. One young man claimed that his group had driven from Mexicali (12 hours) to party in San Carlos.

This yearly event is so well planned that porta-pottys and dumpsters are set out, and water trucks water the roads so the dirt is kept down.

By Monday the town is back to normal; businesses re-open, trash is picked up, and we can enjoy our sleepy town once again.

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