For starters, we found a great place to host the party. Some of our closest friends had just remodeled their main level in their house, alowing for more room for all those friends we wanted to invite.
This also meant they aquired a brand new plasma screen for their main room. Why would this matter? I'll tell you later ;)
The third great thing about this years Cinco de Mayo was that it fell on a Saturday, which is perhaps the best day to host a party. This allowed more people to be available, and also, what better way to spend a Sunday than recovering from a monumentous party from the night before.
We started the day by making a trip all the way from Holladay up to Ogden at 9:00 am that morning. Why take such a long hike? Well, we got word from my Dad's fiance that there is a Mexican market where a little old lady makes homemade tamales. This was a pretty awesome market to go and visit. Quite authentic, and everything you could possibly want Mexican wise, you could get it. There was a meat and fish counter with raw cut poultry, pork shanks, pig's feet, whole fish of many varieties, and all sorts of other interesting things. They had rows of spicy sauces, tortillas, and of course, Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles. Our purchased included some pork bones, a tres leches cake, lard (for the refried beans), and thoese delicious tamales.
Once we were done shoping, my wife and I spent the afternoon cooking and getting excited for the party in the evening.
We planned to have the party start at around 6:30, since this was the time that the pre-fight events were getting started. Yup, that was the other factor that made this Cinco de Mayo so excellent, probably one of the biggest boxing events in the last five years. The fight of the evening was Oscar de la Hoya matched again Floyd Mayweather. This single spectacular would have made the night all by itself, it was simply an amazing battle.
We had the house set up with the living room off the entry as the "Tequila Shrine." Here we had about 7 ultra-premium sipping (shooting) tequilas. The main room and kitchen had all the food and plenty of places to mingle. There was also the plasma set up with the fight going. (In the "Tequila Shrine" we also had another TV for the Jazz playoff game.) Out on the patio we had a plethor off fine Mexican beers to choose from. There was no limit here. We also had a top-shelf margarita "keg" set up in the kitchen. Yummmm...
And to lubricate the party even further, my wife's Cinco de Mayo playlist of some 88 hand-picked Latin songs really brought the party to life. This was a labor of love on her part, as the playlist alone was the project of 3 months.
The fight was absolutely captivating. Everyone was crouded in the main room to watch the twelve rounds that had been hyped up for months and months since the annoucement. HBO actually had a series going on prior to the fight giving background on both boxers. In the end, Mayweather won by a very slim margin, although there are still debates raging that de al Hoya actual was the true victor.
Both before and after the fight there was a tremendous amount of mingling going on. Not everyone there knew all the guests, so people were having a great time getting to know people (especially at the tequila shrine). There were also a few cigars being passed around that people were enjoying inbetween the visits to the plethora of food, the margarita keg, the beer collection on the patio, or the shrine.
All I can say is this was a fabulous, practically perfect party... will we ever be able to out-do it?
Rick, Josh, and date
Jill, Noel and friend
Jill and Michael
Happy times on the couch
The infamous "Tequila Shrine"
Clifton and Brooke
2 comments:
None of the comments in you original really had any suggestions for improvement but you still did a good job on adding to the revised version. There was the suggestion about explaining that your wife's father is Mexican and adding that was a nice touch.
The details you added about what actually took place at the party as opposed to just what was there helped to make the reading experience more imerssive. Expecially with the addition of talking about the fight and how people met.
I love the way you described the party and especially the little Mexican market. I'm tejano (tex-mex) and if anyone can appreciate home made tamales it's me. However, read over the first two paragraphs they seem a little wordy to me.
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