Where The Grass Is Greener...: better late than never...

so this was supposed to get posted yesterday, but since our beautiful and always working while staying low priced time warner cable decided it did not want to work for ~~a billion times~~ once. soooooooooo, here is my lovely CINCO DE MAYO post!! :)

it's become a rather big deal here in the U.S. to celebrate cinco de mayo and as the resident mexican of this blog, i felt obligated to explain the history behind the holiday. so jess, here's your answer...

it may (or may not) be a well known fact that mexicans LOVE mayonaise. if you're from po-dunk, fin-town USA, you may not realize this since there are only a few such mexicans who have ever graced the town with their presence ;) but anyways, now you know...mexicans love mayonaise. so waaaaaay back in history, right after mexico had staked it's claim as an actual country or republic or whatever you want to call it, the then queen of england wanted to "congratulate" mexico and sort of send a peace offering out of respect for what they had accomplished. obviously, what would you send a bunch of mexicans??? tortillas??? noooooooooo silly. mayonaise of course!! so off the armada went...set sail for the new republic of mexico. they set sail at the end of april hoping to arrive sometime in the beginning of may. well, sure enough, they ran into the notorious spring weather that the great seas are known for. and on may 5, 1700-something the armada sank to bottom of the atlantic. so the mexicans, not wanting the queen of england to feel bad since they figured they may need her help someday declared a holiday and call it SINK-O DE MAYO!!

and now you know....the rest of the story :)