Day 8 - Granon

Joe was feeling much better, we had to get up earlier because we had to be down at the other church of the town La Ermita de Carasquedo. Which I'd say is about 1 km away or so. This part is all new to me but on May 1st it is the churches patron saint day, so what they do it take a statue of the patron saint from that church up to the town church. In august or september they do the opposite. So we walk down to the Ermita and go to mass. They have a song that is sung that says we your children of Granon thank you and so on and so forth. They then take the statue out side where people pay their thanks then dancers begin to dance and they carry the statue toward the town. Four people on each corner have to hold the statue and carry it all the way up. The dancer danced on all the flat areas and rested on the hills. People switched carrying the statue and eveyone else walked behind. Then as we reached town a statue of the patron saint of the church in town comes out to meet the other statue and welcome her home. An elder of the town says a little thing the dancers dance and they carry the two statues into the church into town. Its an amazing thing that they do every year. This marks the end of the festivities so there is a mass exodis from the town. That night we actually went to bed by midnight.