A party in Homestead

Casta and her daughter Aleeya.

This is Roque and his little daughter. He was so little when we met him!

On Saturday, the kids and I went to a party in Homestead. Don went to a concert with a friend. It was a party for Casta's daughter. She is the girl we met after Hurricane Andrew in 1993 (?). She is married now and has 2 daughters and we have stayed in touch with her and her family. Her daughter was turning 3 years old and it was a really big deal. Her family is from another part of Mexico so I am not sure of their customs. It was a mini "quinceanera" or wedding. The people in Homestead and I guess in the small towns in Mexico share the costs of all their parties so there is people -mainly relatives- that pay for each part of the party, cake, pictures, drinks, food, etc. The family having the party is expected to contribute when the other people have parties in the future.

Anyways, it was a fancy party, in a party place with lots of guests. The theme was Cinderella and the birthday girl was wearing a beautiful dress and they took hundreds of pictures of her and all the guests. There was a clown and then a D.J. Casta's mom made some of the food and it was great. She gave me some to bring to Don. Carlos and Titi were intimidated at first because everybody was speaking Spanish but later they had fun playing with all the kids since most of them speak English among them.

Titi loved the music they were playing. When she saw that some people were going to dance she asked me to dance with her. We danced "cumbias" and she loved them. We got home at 10:30 but it was worth it.