Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo (5th of May), which is apparently some kind of Mexican day celebrating the Mexican Army's defeat of an invading French army in the 1800s. It's something like that, anyway. The French army well outnumbered the Mexicans, according to Wikipedia. The day seems to be of interest here, and, perhaps, in a couple of parts of Mexico.
We picked the car up, it's fixed apart from the seal around the hatch/trunk/boot door, which is getting done tomorrow. We drove home, Liz happy in the Prius and me in the POS, the plan being to make Lemon Pepper chicken for dinner. But, when we got the chicken out it smelled off. Having more food in the kitchen but plans for it that made sense on other nights, we decided we'd go out and grab something. Yep - remembering that it was Cinco de Mayo we went to that little place just up the street... and got middle eastern food. No way we were running the potential gauntlet of the Mexican cocina on a "mexican" day! That would be like going to a hamburger place on... umm... the Hamburglar's Birthday!
While I was waiting for the food to be cooked (we got falafel, hummus and some skewered chicken), I watched the TV they have in the "restaurant", which, in reality, is a small take away place. They always have the same channel going - a middle eastern music channel. Not understanding what they are saying is interesting, it means you have to put the story together with what you see. That's why I like watching Telemundo, aka the Spanish Channel. Also, to learn Spanish. I learned that Batman in Spanish is Batman thanks to watching Batman Begins.
Anyway, last night's music video was epic - the whole song/video/story took about 5 - 7 minutes or more to tell. It involved a photographer, a model, photo chemicals in the eyes and then seemingly an eye transplant or something similar. In the end the irony was that the photographer was blind!
Yeah, weird things still amuse me.
But, the point of the post was on Cinco de Mayo we didn't risk a Mexican restaurant, and we got the car back.
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