Last Sunday afternoon I went to the birthday party of my friend's 1 year old son, Eliazer. Denia, his mom, works at the public library and is also our neighbor. A super sweet girl! Birthday parties are super-special here. The ones I've gone to tend to follow the same typical order. You hand out invitations the week before, or just verbally invite the people. The guests show up early, on time, or late...but usually end up sitting and waiting around a while anyway. You serve some sort of food...it could be tamales (not my favorite, but I've had some good ones), conchas (LOVE them!), empanadas, or perhaps enchiladas. (We had mexican tacos for my birthday last year. Delicious!) Coke is always served too. I'm not a big fan of Coke, but if the food is bit
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