oh, mexico!

you've given us alot, and to this i'm truly thankful.

mexican food.

mexican beer.

tequila.

awesome weather.

did I mention tequila?

how about cinco de mayo?

it's an opportunity to take everything above (well, the weather needs to cooperate) and put it all together into one ginormus festival.

we managed to get together with great friends of ours this past weekend for what ended up being our home away from home.

first off - our gracious hosts of the weekend opened up their doors to us on Friday night for a pre-party that turned out to be quite enjoyable - it was a precursor to the long day ahead.

this was the beginning - we started off by drinking. and cooking - but just enough for 10 x the people that showed up! it was a lot of food - but we did manage quite all right. some minor disasters - like a blender that, well, sucked:

how are you supposed to make frozen margarita's with a blender that don't work?

exactly. cue the beer.

even the kids thought that the blender fiasco was funny. the thing about kids, is that if they get along, and these ones did, they'll amuse themselves and stay out of your hair.

now, generally, when you are a courteous guest, and you offer to come by the next day to help with either prep work or cleanup duty, the hosts *will* say no - it's all right - all under control.

not so much. armed with a super early appointment to now help out, I rounded up the kids and went back to make enchiladas. a lot of them. all said and done, we cranked through over 200 corn tortillas and enough enchilada sauce to bath a chihuahua.

i was too busy cooking to get alot of pictures of the process, but needless to say I had a great time and I think that the others had an equally fun time.

couple other pictures from the festivities that night

good times. as usual - you can click on the pictures above to get to even more pictures.

and finally - to all my Philly freinds..... you don't want any of this. trust me.

-m