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Fiesta Fiesta!! Today is the main day of celebrations and our first plan is to be back at Jesicas parents place for the much awaited Tamale breakfast. We arrived around 10am but truth be known I had already had a sneaky breakfast at 6am but was still ready for our big second breakfast. There were some friends of the family also over for breakfast and I got another opportunity to practice my Spanish. Breakfast was served like a 3 course meal starting with hot chocolate and traditional day of the dead bread, next the tamales and coca cola and for dessert walnuts. I couldn't believe how much everyone ate and I struggled to just make it through two tamales. The Tamales were amazing and the mole salsa and chicken was the perfect complement to the tamales. After the hour long breakfast I was ready to go do something but unfortunately Jesica was more inclined to sleep but after some persuasion I convinced her to go for a walk around the neighborhood. I was ready for a big day of celebrations with a belly full of food, some sunshine and people on party mode. We ended up getting a lift back to Jessica's Aunties house and got ready to join the festivities. Nothing happened for hours and Jessica ended up sitting around playing video games the whole day and by 4:30pm I pleaded we go and join the festivities. Finally we were ready by 5pm and headed to the cemetery where all the young guys had dressed up and the air and percussion band had just started. The funniest thing I had ever seen then occurred when a guy stumbled passed me, fell over and then picked himself up - he had apparently had about 20 shots of mescal. The drunk Mexican cowboy then preceded to get onto his horse (which took about 20 minutes) - the show then began with him wobbling all over the place, almost slipping off the side and yelling at the horse. Even more funny was when the music started the drunk guy got his horse up on 2 legs and started it dancing which was incredibly impressive considering he couldn't stand. People in costumes started dancing and others started falling down drunk, it was quite a sight and even worse they were grabbing people from the crowd to dance. 2 American girls had also come to join us for the celebrations and all the local guys had them up dancing quick. The group of dancing people now headed down into the town stopping at many houses dancing and collecting more people. Eventually I was asked to dance and with the help of my bottle of mescal I gave the local dance a good crack. I met some interesting people who invited me to drink Mescal shots with them and would have preferred to hang-out with them rather then the Couchsurfers but such is life. The drinking, dancing and music continued all night and eventually ended up in the town hall where it was obvious just how drunk and crazy some people were by now. I was over it by now and the girls were all speaking Spanish and I was a little left-out so I just sat off to the side and waited for them to head back. All in all it wasn't too bad of a night but I would of preferred to stay in Oaxaca city I think but I am grateful for the experience.
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