My Christmas

Last Friday I left on a road trip to Cuernavaca, Mexico with my dad and brother to visit family and friends. We arrived here on Sunday at about one in the morning, so in actuality I guess we arrived on Monday morning.

For Christmas Eve my family always has a party called a ''posada.'' This year was a blast, the only thing is that I had to sit in church for two hours. But I'm glad I didn't pass out this year! Anyways, afterwards we walked home and when we got there we began breaking pinatas with the rest of the neighborhood. We had dinner at around 11 P.M. and at midnight all of our family and friends hugged and wished each other a Merry Christmas.

So we have these new friends who are transsexuals. That may sound a little odd but they're fun to be around. One was named Vanessa and I'm not sure what the other girls name was. Both of them pretty much got hammered and at about 2 A.M. they put on a show for us. They danced to up beat music for about an hour like they knew what they were doing. Vanessa was a pretty good dancer and the other girl was alright I guess.

For about an hour my brother, Thomas, my cousin, Victor, and I lit fireworks. When we came back our other friend, Edahir (I don't know if that's how you spell it) who is gay, dressed up as a woman in a silk dress, black wig, makeup, and high heels and impersonated another singer. It was hilarious!

Overall it was a great night and I fell asleep at around 4 A.M. I ended up waking up at around 1 P.M. and for the rest of the day my family and I went to this place called "Los Columpios" (the swings). There there are these swings that are basically a long rope tied to very tall trees. You sit on these simple pieces of branch that are also tied to the rope and swing over about three stories. I was scared to death but I'm glad I did it.

A while after we went on these quads and while I was riding my bike got stuck. So, I got off and I accidentally let go of the break and the back tire ran over my left leg about eight times. Right now it's actually bruised and had a number of red marks. It hurts like no other. But I must say, I did have a great time.

Later that night my dad, two aunts, brother, cousin, Edahir, and I went to Cinepoli, the huge movie theater here. We saw the 10 P.M. showing of The Golden Compass. The only thing is that it was in Spanish. But I understood all of it! I was, and still am, quite proud of myself.

Since then we haven't really done much. Today I didn't do anything really. I just hung out with my brother around the house and stuff. Tomorrow though we're going to these hot springs about two hours away and we'll be staying there all day. I can't wait! I've never been to any hot springs and I'm hoping it will be a great experience.