Cinco de Mayo Festival

Fun, fun, fun at the weekend! We had 'Cinco de Mayo' street festival which is the Mexican independence day downtown Denver. Normally this day is celebrated at the 5th of May (thus the 'cinco de mayo') but as it is not a weekend day we have celebrated it already. America is moving fast, man :-)


Speaking with a Mexican friend of mine who was living over there for most of her life it is interesting to hear that this day is much bigger celebrated over in the States then it is over in Mexico itself. Most of the Mexican federal states doesn't even have a holiday for it.
I wonder now if they celebrate the American Independence Day bigger over in Mexico in turn of the not celebrated Cinco de Mayo...

But that seems to be the beauty of America... every ethnic group seems to have their very own festival over here... Germans have their Oktoberfest, Irish their St. Paddy's Day, Mexicans their Mayo Festival, Chinese their Dragon Boat race and so on. In America it is always a good reason for a celebration and plenty of beer... just try to avoid the light beers and go for the ethnic beers too... Oktoberfest-beer, Guinness, Corona, Tiger beer... ;-)