I forgot to load the pictures from the "bottom up" so they would be in sequence from top down. Sorry. Anyway, start at the bottom and go up for chronology. We celebrated Cinco de Mayo with the usual Mexican food fest, the Mexican flag flying, and Linda Ronstadt's "Canciones de Mi Padre" playing. Rob had to work that night, so we had taco salad on Sunday as a warm-up. Then Tuesday, we had enchiladas, rellenos, a to-die-for guacamole that Jen made, and Dominic and Jen decided to look up recipes for fried ice cream! Graydon helped put it together and we all enjoyed. We went outside to take pictures of the tulips :) and of Grandpa and Grandma in front of the backyard crabapple tree. Oh, and Grandpa is a special favorite of Iris' right now as he is always ready to respond to her request to "Can you tell me a story?" I know Cinco de Mayo is no big deal in Mexico, but I had a fun conversation (en Español) with Antonia, a lady from Mexico who helps me clean every other week. It was the day after 5 Mayo and she was trying to remember the historical roots of the day. I reminded her that it was a victory over the French and she nodded and said that was right. Then she said that it was said in Mexico that when they beat a better trained and better equipped opponent--"No somos machos, pero somos muchos." (We're not that tough, but there are a lot of us.)
2 comments:
Wish we could have been there -- and that crabapple tree -- wow!!!
beautiful! and i say we all get a copy of that fried ice cream recipe!
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