VIVA LA MEXICO!!!!

Sam and Jessica have a roommate, Ana Paula who is from Mexico. And apparently Mexican independence is on the 16th of September. Not on cinco de mayo like many people think. (turns out that they just won a really big battle on that day, and what a better reason to party than because of a big battle win, right?) in any case, ana paula invited the girls and us to go to this really big party for Mexican independence. Naturally, we agree. Who wouldn’t want to celebrate Mexican independence by drinking copious amounts of tequila on a Monday night?

We all go to the party. Sam, jess and I are way too dressed up, but whatevs.

And it’s margarita and cerveza, tacos and tortilla for all! Super fun. Mariachi band and everything. The Mexican ambassador came out and riled up the crowd and everything. The one thing that was so so so fun about the whole thing though was that none of us could really understand what was going on because everything was in Spanish. Well, I take that back, eddy and victor could because they’re both Mexican, I could get a bit from my broken Spanish, but Michael, Sam and Jess were a bit lost. But Ana Paula had warned us a bit about what goes on. Pretty much there’s just a lot of yelling that goes on. The ambassador (or whomever) comes out and yells viva ___________ (insert appropriate important Mexican political figure here, such as Hidalgo, etc) and the crowd responds with VIVA! And that goes on for about 5 or 6 people, then the ambassador goes VIVA MEXICO! Crowd goes, VIVA! This gets repeated 3 times in a crescendo and gets really really REALLY loud on the last one.

Needless to say, it was so fun. Whether or not I understood anything that was really going on… VIVA!!!!