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Party-sized drinks at Senor Frogs
Vultures have lunch on dead turtle
Tacos at El Mentiritas
Ixtapa ViewsAuthentic Christmas Eve Mass & Live Nativity Scene
I’m not particularly religious, but my mom grew up Catholic so for whatever reason I had this overwhelming desire to go to a Christmas mass. I suspected it would be different than Christmas mass in the USA since Catholics are very prevalent in Mexico. Our guide told us to go to the church on the main street in Zihautanejo (where all the swap meet type shops are located). On Christmas Eve they have an 8pm and midnight mass. Unfortunately we were late and missed most of the 8pm and were too tired to do the midnight. We did get to see the tail end of the 8pm mass and it was like a mini festival…the church was packed, but they kept the huge doors open so the crowd outside could see. I don’t think there were anymore than 5 English speaking people there…all Mexicans…very real and very special, yet kind of casual. At the end people got in a huge line to kiss the baby Jesus.
On Christmas day in Ixtapa the locals acted out the nativity scene. They used a live baby for the baby Jesus and had real baby goats that we got to hold. Everyone was so kind, no one asked for tips and they let us take pictures.
