Cinco de Mayo!

As true Americans, we got excited about Cinco de Mayo, but not as much as we would have liked due to a final on Thursday morning. We asked around to see if anyone was doing anything. We started with the Italians, logically because they are so close to Mexico… well ok really it was because they were sitting closest to us when we realized we were days away from the event. They looked at us like we were crazy and asked why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo and why anyone celebrates it. My response was I knew that Mexico won some battle against someone at some time in history. I know, I know, I’m full of details. This extremely sufficient knowledge needed to be augmented a little, so we went to the trustiest source we had at the moment. Wikipedia. Whew. Our reliable source told us it was indeed a Mexican victory in a battle over….FRANCE! Didn’t see that one coming. So we decided we better shut up about this Cinco celebrating a little bit. But, still wanting to be patriotic for the Mexicans, we asked them what they were doing. One Mexican kindly told us that they don’t celebrate because while Mexico did indeed win the battle, they lost the war. Hmmm…not so much worth celebrating. So, us Americans celebrated by ourselves by making chicken fajitas, guacamole with unripe avocados, and one margarita as to not supplant the studying necessary for taking a final the following morning. I hope you all enjoyed your Cinco a little more. Someone drink a Corona for me.