Spontaneous Saturday

After running errands all Saturday morning, I looked at my phone and saw I had a message from David Garcia; we built the Garcia family two houses over the summer. Turns out he was inviting me to their youngest daughter Nadia's 6th birthday party, which was that afternoon! A little last minute, but I guess their grown son had my number in Juarez so they had to wait until they could get a hold of him to call me. It's all good though...not like I had anything better to do. Everything I had planned could wait til Sunday, so I finished up my load of laundry, ran out to get a quick present, and headed on over. It was just what I expected, since I have noticed that Hispanic birthday parties tend to have the same general components--the whole extended family, LOTS of food, an inflatable bouncy house thing (the Garcias have a trampoline instead), a pinata, and goodie bags. I wound up being there for almost 6 hours, which also didn't surprise me in the least!

The Garcia girls and I.

Playing some weird game--like a relay race to see who could pop the most balloons with their butt in 30 seconds or something.

Nadia hitting the pinata. Funny story--a couple of years ago Luz and David got one of the girls a pinata of whatever character they were obsessed with at the time for her birthday, but the girls loved the character so much that they didn't want to break the pinata!