Viva la fiesta!

Wow, the fiesta - Santa Barbarian Spanish Heritage Days - was nice! It is still going on, the whole weekend, but I did see a lot. Thursday night Amy, Josh and I (I met Josh in Julias painting class) went to one of the spots where they have the fair celebrations going on: stands with Mexican food and drinks (I LOVE the Horchata, made with aroz y canela and I also ate my first Tamale - how delicious! It's corn pudding with meat inside, wrapped in a corn leaf.) Why are those people fenced in? I wondered. Oh, because that's where they sell beer. To get into the fence - it's the most crowded area - you gotta show your ID. Ok, then... let's go and have a beer, shall we? Josh looks at me like uuhm...no... because one I don't like it too much and two it's illegal. Oh, so under 21, huh? well. +++ how good that the puppy is chewing on her bone for a while +++ Ok, so we did some other fun stuff instead. the band was great, I even got to dance chacha, I got egged (they crack an egg filled with confetti) and went up a giant rubbery air filled shark to slide down out of its mouth. Yesterday we saw the Spanish Heritage parade with old spanish costumes, beautiful flamenco dressed women, sombrero men on horses and floats covered in flowers and with musical groups and marines dressed in white. That's when you squillo'd me, Daniel Gonzalez from Spain!! What a coincidence and thanks, just couldn't squillo back from here. The high school marching bands contributed music, too - only the Hispanic band members where in the parade, though. Yesterday night I went to the Courthouse (most beautiful building in Santa Barbara!) and saw the public dancing and singing performances on stage. The park was crowded and the dances were of a high level! They even had crossings between flamenco and Hip Hop, very interesting for me. After that we checked out the Wild Cat Club - my second clubbing night in SB. After the bachelorette night of Jade (Junggesellinnenabschied) on which we went to the Q's club. The barmen in the Wild Cat were drunk already so that guy just poured me a triple shot instead of one. It was strange stuff, ananas and chili flavoured Tequila. I said oh well it's expensive anyway, I won't complain! But the punishment was to come... I had this monster hangover today, it really sucked.