Happy belated Cinco de Mayo! I am going to do a quick recap of my Cinco de Mayo for you. Apparently the popular thing to do was enjoy 99 cent margs at La Pachanga because everyone and their dog was there. The excitement really began as we were frantically trying to decide whether a 40 minute wait was worth it, or if we should try to beat traffic down at the other end of town for La Fuente. In the end we decided Mexican is Mexican, margs are margs, especially in little midwest K-Ville, so we opted for heading north to get our grub on. Of course, everyone (and their dogs, remember) decided to do the same, so after sitting at our table for oh, 20 minutes, the entire place was swarming with DZs starting their bar crawl (from which we stole their reserved table, ha), rando townies, and plenty of other Trumanites ready to go to town on La Fuente's supply of tequila. To make an entirely ridiculous experience come together in a short story...
paper to-go menus being passed out...they ran out of normal menus
margs in massive pepsi glasses (still costing $1, keep in mind)...ran out of margarita glasses
4 waiters serving about 27 tables
a 30-min-wait-wrap-around-the-restaurant line of people waiting to pay (including a girl that tried to cut, so 4th grade)
This of course was topped off on our ride back home, as our good friend read palms and told our fortunes. All in all, I would rate it #1 on my Cinco de Mayo Celebraciones list.
I proceeded to go out with the roomies to a glorious bar called Wrongdaddy's, where we talked our newly found friend (which we called by first and middle name) into giving us some Corona beads complete with flashing beer bottle, and 'beer ponchos' for our bucket of Coronas.
Ah, Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, which commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. According to Wikipedia, Cinco de Mayo is not an "obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily. That, I did.
Um, why did you stop updating?
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