2.  What is it?  El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, is a traditional Mexican holiday representing indigenous traditions honoring the dead It is not a sad time, but instead a time of remembering and rejoicing.

3.  People begin by preparing to gather flowers, especially Cempaxuchitl flowers

4.  Cempaxuchitl flowers represent the dead. That is the reason they use them in graves and altars.

5.  Shredded confetti paper.  It means  Wind and Joy

7. Las flores se utilizan para decorar las tumbas de sus familiares y ofrendas..

8.  Flowers, food, saints

9.  candles, water, food, photographs, personal belongings, are also offerings.

11.  You can see ofrendas, ( offerings) in public places in Mexico. Such as streets, Malls, and businesses.

12.  Sugar Skulls!!- calaveras de azucar

13. Dead bread

14.  The bones represent the lost) and there is normally a baked tear drop on the bread to represent sorrow.

15. Families stay November 1 st at night to wake up the next day November 2.

16. Diferencias Halloween ?

17.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpqo O7LkgF0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpqo O7LkgF0