Normally a Mexican birthday party consists of all of the family, over 50 people with the size of Alicia's family, 9 uncles with their wives and countless cousins. The party consists usually of carne asada, a.k.a. grilling a lot of beef, several 2 liters of coca-cola, beer for the adults, delicious cake, and a jumbo piñata stuffed with delicious candies. This is a true to life example of a normal birthday party here in Mexico.
Alicia prefers to have more special events with those that are close to her.
She specified that she didn't care to have any big to-do about her golden birthday. No golden earrings, no necklaces, nothing but the simplicity of a giant Hawaiian style pizza with her family and I.
I dig this girl like none other for stuff like that. This girl has the mentality that a meal shared with the people closest to her means a ton more than having a ton of gifts or people to say congrats.
I digress. So anyways her older brother and his new wife were in from out of town and came over along with her parents and myself, her younger brother was busy that evening and joined us later on. We ordered the massive pizza which comes in a box that literally measures 3 ft. long by 1 1/2 ft. wide. Price tag =200 pesos, UNDER $20 in the U.S. it showed up around 20 mins. later and we all sat down to eat. After that we sat around sharing stories about work and life in general for almost 2 hours.
After that we took out the cake. Nothing huge in size but massive in flavor. A nice cake from the ground up consisting of 3 layers of a light and super moist white cake, topped off with whipped cream frosting that was as light as a feather and then the cake was drizzled in chocolate and had pecans and chocolate chips. One of the best cakes I have ever tasted.
The food being as good as it was really was only food for us that night, mostly because it was the people with whom it was shared that really mattered.
Below is a picture of my girlfriend, in-laws, and her brother and sister in-law from that night:
(by the way you can see the cake I mentioned earlier in the picture)
Alicia prefers to have more special events with those that are close to her.
She specified that she didn't care to have any big to-do about her golden birthday. No golden earrings, no necklaces, nothing but the simplicity of a giant Hawaiian style pizza with her family and I.
I dig this girl like none other for stuff like that. This girl has the mentality that a meal shared with the people closest to her means a ton more than having a ton of gifts or people to say congrats.
I digress. So anyways her older brother and his new wife were in from out of town and came over along with her parents and myself, her younger brother was busy that evening and joined us later on. We ordered the massive pizza which comes in a box that literally measures 3 ft. long by 1 1/2 ft. wide. Price tag =200 pesos, UNDER $20 in the U.S. it showed up around 20 mins. later and we all sat down to eat. After that we sat around sharing stories about work and life in general for almost 2 hours.
After that we took out the cake. Nothing huge in size but massive in flavor. A nice cake from the ground up consisting of 3 layers of a light and super moist white cake, topped off with whipped cream frosting that was as light as a feather and then the cake was drizzled in chocolate and had pecans and chocolate chips. One of the best cakes I have ever tasted.
The food being as good as it was really was only food for us that night, mostly because it was the people with whom it was shared that really mattered.
Below is a picture of my girlfriend, in-laws, and her brother and sister in-law from that night:
(by the way you can see the cake I mentioned earlier in the picture)
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