When we split up from the family in the late morning - the plan was they were going to go to Abuelita Cata’s house to pick her up and then head to the party. So, if didn’t find them in San Francisco, look for them in Buena Vista, if we didn’t find them there go on to the party in La Joya. But since we took a little longer than we expected we just went straight on to Buena Vista! Which was a good thing, because our timing worked out perfectly, that we found Abuelita at the side of the road waiting for a taxi. So we stopped to pick her up instead, and found that the family hadn’t come by yet. She looked so cute there all ready to go, with a basket of goodies to take. I climbed in to the back and Grandma rode shotgun.
Josue decided to head back to San Francisco to see what the family was up to, and we found them at the bottom of the street by the church, they were just getting some last minute things. Since they knew we had Abuelita with us, they told us to go on to the party. We were the first to get there, and got to enjoy some time with cousins Jr. & Noe and Tio Joel by ourselves for a bit. The rest of the family was not too far behind. The birthday boy turned five today and was dressed all sharp.
When it was time to eat - dinner hit the spot. We hadn’t eaten all day, and it was quite a bit a cooler in La Joya because they are higher in altitude there. We had posole and tostadas! The warm soup was perfect and the tostadas were light and tasty! The hosts went all out and had cake and gelatina for desert… not to mention a piñata for later or actually two!
So, I’m starting to learn the other versus for Las Mañanitas… back home, we usually just sang the first verse, or atleast that’s all I ever really sang! But there’s more - right after Las Mañanitas, is a little cheer, to blow out the candles, then they chant “que le muerda, que le muerda” for the birthday person to bite the cake, and I suppose it’s tradition for someone to push their face into it, because so far both birthday parties we’ve been to they’ve done it! Then “que lo parta, que lo parta” for the birthday person to slice the first piece! It’s all festive and fun.
Then round two of the tostadas!! How are we ever going to lose weight here with all this good food?!!
Now it was time for the piñata! Same as over there, it goes from littlest to biggest. One major difference - this piñata’s core is made of clay - that’s right, a clay pot filled with candy. And a new thing for me - they have a song to sing for each person’s turn. When the song is over, that person’s turn is over! It goes like this:
Dale dale dale
No pierdas el tino
Porque si lo pierdes
Pierdes el camino
Ya le diste uno
Ya le diste dos
Ya le diste tres
Y tu tiempo se acabo!
Se acabo!
It’s fun and it keeps rotating through all the kids, and the “big kids” that get in on the action!
One of the bigger kids broke the first piñata, and then after they went through the whole line of kids twice on the second piñata, they moved on to the big kids, Lalo had his chance (he’s 17), then Nery(29) wanted a turn, then they had Josue(27) go, then Jon(18), then Tania(30) and she’s the one who broke it!
It was a fun night!
Oh yeah… and Josue says there’s actually another verse to that song, if the person doesn’t break it.. Goes like this:
Ese niño es muy tonto
Es muy tonto
Se parece a su papa´! (for the boys)
Esa niña es muy tonta
Es muy tonta
Se parece a su mama´! (for the girls)
For my sobrinos over there - ask Tata what it means! It’s all in fun!
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