Chad and I will dismiss school at noon so everyone can get ready for the celebration. The kids are in charge of decorating our homes – but I’m sure we dads will pitch in. We’ll have lots of balloons, crepe paper streamers, colorful paper table cloths and napkins and more surprises (we can hardly wait to see what Alex, Cal, Bella and Chance do to turn their home into the “Mexican cantina” they’ve promised).
The weather people say it’s going to be a beautiful, sunny Spring day so we’re doing a moving dinner. We’ll start at Chad and Raef’s place for chips, salsa and margaritas (virgin margaritas for the kids). Then, we’ll all walk over to Alex and Cals’ for tamales… then Keon and Ricks’ for enchiladas… then Ty and Damiens’ for quesadillas… then our house for fish tacos (the kids favorite). After all that food, we’ll head over to Jim and Carols’ for fried ice cream.
Alex has a big boom box that he’ll carry with us from cabin to cabin playing mariachi music and we’ll all carry our margaritas (and virgin margaritas) with us as we go.
Even though Alex and Matty are the only actual Latinos in our group, we all speak Spanish (in varying competencies) and after a margarita or two, we’re about as Latin as can be 🙂
Mucho cariño a todos y feliz cinco de mayo!
