April 5, 2007 continued
Easter Thursday


We have never before experienced such a friendly and lively gathering of people in a church.
Women from the village, with their children, had come to take care that the Paraskevi church in Kalyves is prepared for Easter.

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These ladies took happily care of making everything clean before future ceremonies.

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The children were allowed, encouraged, to have a time of their life in play. Inside the church.

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Meanwhile the women were preparing decorations for the Tomb of the Christ. For the ceremonies to come later on during Easter.

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Oops! There was one male person! The local florist's son to take care that Christ's Tomb is accurately decorated.

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Also the local florist seems to want that everything is done right.

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But on the whole the children, and everybody else, were just having fun!

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