Monday, May 19, 2008

MEXICO SPECIAL EDITION: Day 5. Siesta Fiesta

Dont worry, this one is not as long as day 4. For those who havent read day 4, its completely worth your time, trust me. Especially from the lessons of the day. So friday was a nice day. I woke up early for some reason, at 8:15. Casey was still in his Siesta. My grandparents were gone so I ran to the gym to lift and ran back. It was a jolly trip. Except for the fact that the air here is heavy with exaust, so it makes breathing all funky when you are breathing hard.

From then we just chilled. Casey was still in his siesta mode when I got back. I pulled him out at 10:30. Food. The day before was very long. So we were pretty tired.

Casey just got up, as you can tell

Dressed and ready

My Grandparents

We began to get ready to go to the Doctor´s house at 1. Jasmine´s father is nicknamed "the doctor" cause that is what he is, plus I forget his last name. So it makes it easy. We were planning to get there at 2pm and start are Mexican meal. But of course things run late here in Mexico and we ended up leaving at 3. So we got there at 3:30 and it was all nice and dandy. We had fun with Jasmine´s little brother, Hop. Apparently he had never seen a video camera before, so we had fun with that. Jasmine also played some of her fun music so I had fun with that, haha.


After the meal the family recorded some new music. Jasmine has a sister Angelita, and a brother, Misael. Misael is the leader of a band he started called Siervos De Dios, Which translates to servants of God. They have an amazing ability for singing and writting music. So we were able to sit in and listen as they made some recordings so that they could have the songs in the records. Last week they were playing at a feast mass for Pentecost in Gualarajara and they were on nation television. So it was truely awesome to sit in and listen. The only problem is that it makes me cry inside...because they sound so good and I sound so bad. But I get over it, no worries. I would love to sing good.



When they had finished, at 7:10, me, Casey, and Jasmine heade off for the fair. We headed to the Culture of art place again. This time there was this band called Select-On. They were nothing short of amazing. They were like this electronic band, but the 3 band members played the violin, the classical spanish guitar, and the electric guitar. They were also accompanied by the all female mariachi band. It was so cool the way they sounded. They also invited this amazing trumpet player. My 3 favorite instruments are the violine, the trumpet, and the saxophone. And I play the alto saxophone. We will see how far I get. But anyhow, us 3 loved it so much that I bought a CD from them. Both Casey and I agree that our favorite tracks are #6 and 8.




After the concert we went around the fair. We were goofing around and Jasmine was showing us where all her drunk people friends hang out. We looked at a lot of shops. Poor Casey wanted to buy this Mexican looking leather wallet but the guy wouldn't lover his 120 pesos price on it. This was the second day Casey has tried.

We kinda got hungry so we descided to go to El Carne, which is my favorite mexican resturant because all they have there is meat and tortillas. Me and Casey didn't get anything to drink but Jasmine got some Horchata. Since Jasmine went to el baÑo and me and Casey were bored, we descided to play a little prank on her. Check out this vid to show how it went.

After we took a snack we headed over to the bar area. There is a whole bunch of them grouped together. Last time we went to the Play Club and it wasn't that great. So we went to the Shine Club because it was bright and shinny and there was a lot of people. It was a pretty full club, and it was way bigger than we antisipated from the outside. A club is a club, but it was pretty fun. At 1am we went next door to the Bamboo club because there was no cover and it was packed but pretty lame. They just had bamboo all ove the place for some reason, but whatever. We just left.

We goofed some more, dropped off Jasmine at her house and then took a cab back. I can't believe Friday was done. At least me and Casey have an awesome weekend to look foward too. Tomorrow we are going to the boxing match and sunday to the bull fighting. What a weekend!

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