Back in June, we celebrated el Día del Niño. I profile it here, just two months after the fact!
Día del Niño is a fairly simple concept: it's a day to celebrate being a kid.
We threw a big party at the Casita de Chocolate. There were balloons and candy and music and contests.
Oh, the contests.
There is always some sort of dancing competition. Couples pair off and give it their all, with one couple getting eliminated in each round.
See below for the final round in our dance-off and the audience's vote by applause for the winner. (You thought this sounded like a contest for adults? Think again. It's all the kids.)
I guess the little boy's somersault was the clincher.
Another popular contest involves pairing up and dancing on squares of newspaper. If either person steps off the piece of paper, the couple is eliminated.
Periodically, the music will stop, and everyone must step off their square of paper, tear it or fold it in half, and prepare for the next round.
By the end of it, the girl you see here wearing the pink shirt had loaded her partner on piggy-back style and was hopping up and down on one foot on her scrap of paper.
Fun first, safety comes later. That's what being a kid is all about.
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