Happy Birthday Mexico!! x2!!

So it was Mexican Independence day this week, which was the 100th anniversary of the revolution and the 200th anniversary of independence from Spain....needless to say, it was a fiesta gigante!

That being said, we got a whopping 5 days off for the celebrations! (I heart gov't work!) Additionally, we FINALLY got our Mexican license plates!! SO, the weekend was filled with parades and attempts to get the car up and running...as well as some FAILed fast food drive through attempts. On that note, I will say that the used-intercom-from-the-80's seem to have arrived at our McDonald's just in time for us to try to order a couple of McBreakfast Sandwiches which came out as an odd Styrofoam plate of pancakes topped with a sausage patty that immediately infuriated my lovely wife. Anyway, the parade was very nice, and we saw some great fireworks...I don't know if they were $23M pesos great (that's approximately $1.9 MILLION dollars... as in US DOLLARS!!!), but they were nice.

Traditional dancers

The parade was so colorful! It included groups in traditional dress with dancing and music that was really cool. There were also floats from each continent, each type of latin dance, traditional and modern arts, day of the dead and a myriad of other designs.

1-2-3-4 I declare a skelly war!
 Ooh-aaah-ureshii! Oh wait that's Japanese! Que im-pre-sio-nan-te!

DRRAAAGOOON-HEAAAD!

Oh traffic! Que barbaro!

Can you tell we're excited (for 5 days off!)

GO-GO-MEXI-CO!

Hey dragon! Stop eating Torre Mayor!

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Con-quista-tastic!

IS that Ms. America?

Go Go Gadget Lasso!

Wouldn't want their job!

Filed under WTF!

See above!

Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni...oh wait wrong independence day!

Just Dance!

According to the sign...modern art and popular culture

Ranchero...Cumbia...Samba and Cha Cha!