Fiesta Week in San Antonio

This is Fiesta Week in San Antonio. It is the celebration of Texas gaining independence from Mexico. Actually they had already won their independence even before the Alamo defeat. But word had not arrived with that news. So to remember the Alamo and to gain their independence, Texas won a battle at San Jacinto which was on April 21. So San Antonio celebrates for about 10 days. They have fancy parades, lots of eating, drinking, and being merry. We haven't participated, and I don't think we plan to participate in any of the activities because it's so wild and crazy during that time. We get Friday off and I think Amy, Susie, Bob, and I are going to have our own little fiesta party at Amy's house. And maybe we'll watch the "Battle of Flowers Parade" on TV which is a really awesome parade. They have "royalty" that goes around to all the functions during this 10 day period and they ride the floats in the parades. I think there are about 3 major parades. Anyway one of the teachers at Susie's school has a daughter who was involved as royalty two different times. They dress up very elaborately and wear these beautiful trains. Here are two trains that teacher made for her daughter. They weigh a ton, and they were all done by hand. I know the colorful one took about 9 months to make. It would take me 9 years to make something like this. Wow. Happy Fiesta.