Too bad nobody really celebrates it here nor in Mexico. The holiday has basically been commandeered by Americans as a drinking holiday and misunderstood by many to be Mexico's independence day. In reality, their independence day is the 16th of September (not nearly as catchy), and the 5th of May commemorates the victory of a battle against the French in Puebla (a town just a couple hours from me). A year after the battle in Puebla, they actually lost to the French.
haha. Ohh well!
The interesting thing though is that America has also adopted it as a sort of Mexican-American cultural-awareness/heritage day, which is pretty rad.
To celebrate, I am eating fresh bananas and papaya from the trees in the yard. Mmm, que rico!
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