Happy 23 to MeEeE

Thank you everyone who called me, e-mailed me, or facebooked me on my birthday. I missed you guys so much!!!! On Wed, I went to work like I normally do (9-2) and before I left my office had a little thing for me. Enrique had made 2 Strawberry Cheesecakes (1 for me to take home and 1 for the office) and the office bought a vanilla cake with fresh strawberries on top on in the middle. Emmm.... so yummy. And they sang, but their happy birthday is different from the feliz cumpleaño song that I learned with Mrs. Black in middle school. If I can, I´m going to put the video online we took @ the house with the family.

After work, I went home with all my desserts to eat lunch with the family. Yadria made this combination of meat and vegi´s that I liked, but noone knows the name of it. It´s steak, chicken, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and shrimp and cheese fried together. You take some of the meat and put it in a tortilla with guacamole or salsa verde or ranch or mayo or whatever combination you decide. It´s like a Mexican steak n cheese, but not quite as good. :) Then, we waited for all the food to digest before we ate the cake Yadria got. It was like a vanilla cake made with three types of milk and cream or something. It was really good (but I liked the strawberry one from work the best). But the tradition is, after you sing and blow out candles, to cut a piece of cake and kiss it. BUT, while u kiss the cake they typically will push your face into it. So, I of course had cake all over my face. I knew what to expect because my office warned me (they didn´t push my face in the cake though), so it was just funny.

Then, Dad, Olga, Eva, Eduardo, Melissa, and I went downtown around 8ish to ride around the city on the Cochobus (I can´t spell, but it sounds kind of like that). It´s a double decker tour bus that drives around the city of Villahermosa with lights and reggeaton music. Since it was a nice night, it was pretty fun. Afterwards, Dad, Eduardo, & Melly went to eat tacos and I went with Angél (a family cousin I met) and his friends to Bfore.

Bfore was awesome because it´s normally not open on Wedensday, but the beer Sol was having an invitation only party in honor of it´s new beer Sal y Limon (Lime & Salt). So it was super VIP and of course Angél (like Juan Carlos, who didn´t come because he went to Merida) knows everyone. So, we didn´t have to wait very long to get in, and we got a table upstairs. The beer was free from 10 to about 12:30, there was a live band for about an hour or so called JUMBO that I really liked (had a Maroon 5 feel to them), and afterwards the bar was basically just a giant party. The friend´s of Angél are pretty cool, and the two girls I really like to hang out with came out to celebrate my birthday. Fernanda told me the only reason she came out was for my birthday because I guess she had a really bad cold and didn´t feel good. So, even if I didn´t have my normal crew of craXi´s to go out with I did have a good time with the people here.