{"id":526,"date":"2010-11-04T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=526"},"modified":"2010-11-26T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:23:01","slug":"celebrating-el-dia-de-difuntos-and-two-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating El Dia de Difuntos and Two Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, we had the opportunity the share together with our mission friends and ministry partners in celebrating the holiday in Ecuador called El Dia De Difuntos (The Day of the Dead).\u00a0 This is a very big holiday in Ecuador and most all Latino countries.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a day when families are together, eat a special meal, go to church, and then visit the tombs of their deceased family members.\u00a0 You can kind of think of it like a Memorial Day in the States but with a lot more tradition.\u00a0 Their are two very special foods that are prepared on this day; both of which you can see pictured below.\u00a0 Colada Morada is a special drink that is pepared and GuaGuas de Pan is a special dessert that is made.\u00a0\u00a0The Colada Morada (translated as the purple <em>colada<\/em>, or oatmeal drink) is a drink made from cooking blackberries, blueberries, cinnamon, cloves, and other fruits and spices with a little oatmeal in the water until thick. The drink is then blended until smooth.\u00a0 GuaGua is actually a Quechuan word meaning &#8220;child&#8221; so, as you can see, it&#8217;s litterally &#8220;children of bread.&#8221;\u00a0 We all enjoyed this very much, including Simeon who tried the Colada Morada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_527\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Colada_GuaGua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-527\" class=\"size-full wp-image-527\" title=\"Colada_GuaGua\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Colada_GuaGua.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of the Colada Morada and GuaGuas de Pan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_528\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Simeon_Colada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-528\" title=\"Simeon_Colada\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Simeon_Colada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simeon trying the Colada Morada<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_529\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Candles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-529\" title=\"Candles\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/11\/Candles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We also celebrated Josh&#39;s and Joel&#39;s Birthdays since they are both in November<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=526&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, we had the opportunity the share together with our mission friends and ministry partners in celebrating the holiday in Ecuador called El Dia De Difuntos (The Day of the Dead).\u00a0 This is a very big holiday in Ecuador and most all Latino countries.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a day when families are together, eat a special &hellip; 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