The biggest festival is held in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Every year, the city throws a large festival at the Luis Muñoz Marin Park. Delectable food and drinks fill the aroma of the air, live music fills your eardrums, and little kids surround you everywhere. On some occasions, a number of lucky kids receive additional gifts. But the only thing the kids and parents are waiting for is for The Three Kings’ arrival.
By the time every one gets to Grandma’s house, the house is already filling up with fabulous smells of pie, meat, and other wonderful foods and to top it off the smell of fresh cut grass blowing in for the opened windows throughout the house. Each family member prepares and brings a traditionally favored recipe. My grandma is always in charge of making the best pies in the world, especially cherry pie which happens to be my favorite. She also prepares the hot rolls, cheesy potatoes and famous deviled eggs. My aunts’ are normally responsible for bringing the green beans, cheese dip and potato salad and whatever else they fell like bring.
I asked, “Hey, did you guys order the cake yet? Did you, did you?” He answered, “Well, if I tell you now I’ll ruin the surprise but if I don’t you’ll keep annoying me until I tell you, so I’ll just show you the cake.” He went to the refrigerator to take out the heart cake about sixteen inches long. I thought it was too big but I guess his parents wanted him to have the best sixteenth birthday party ever. I think it looks like chocolate devil’s food cake and it said, “Happy Sixteenth Birthday, Mark!” on the top of the cake. It might not be chocolate devil’s food cake but I know it is chocolate flavor because chocolate is Mark’s favorite flavor for cake and ice-cream.
Matthew Willis DEVE 0880-105A People come from all over the country to see all the magnificent floats driving by and throwing beads and stuffed animals to people shouting the loudest. Then when it’s over people have barbeques outside Where the floats just passed by, people cook chicken, hotdogs, ribs, and much more. Finally when everyone is done they go home with bags full of beads and stuffed animals and see how much they have and maybe throw some next year. Mardi Gras has been a tradition in Louisiana for many years. There are a lot of floats that pass by on Mardi Gras.
Every year, as was tradition in my mexican- american family, the person in my family who’s birthday it was would receive gifts such as baked sweets, candy, and fruit. After that, family and friends would be invited over to spend the evening eating and drinking and celebrating. That year, the festivities were sure to be greater to celebrate me coming of age, but
Each band wears different colors and features cheerleaders. Fiesta Catracha takes place this same day: typical Honduran foods such as beans, tamales, baleadas, cassava with chicharron, and tortillas are offered. On Christmas Eve, the people reunite with their families and close friends to have dinner, then give out presents at midnight. In some cities fireworks are seen and heard at midnight. On New Year's Eve there is food and "cohetes", fireworks and festivities.
Our family is all dressed up, and I can smell the evening’s food rooms away and hear the ending sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV downstairs. We seem like a classic, cookie-cutter family. And then the holiday really begins. My grandma is usually the first to arrive, complete with her leopard-print duffle bag she carried everywhere with her. After her I hear the front door open again and know that, from this point on, the house won’t have another moment of silence.
Traditionally it is the last day that people can indulge before their period of penance or Lent. During Mardi Gras, or carnival, the partiers would eat all the meat, eggs milk and cheese to prepare for the fasting of lent. The festivity incorporates the roots of Louisianans, European, African and Caribbean decent. The carnival itself involves different costumes and that are playful, comical, satirical, grotesque, theatrical, and serious. All of the different displays come together to form a very unique holiday celebration.
He immediately begins to celebrate Christmas by anonymously sending the large prize Turkey to the Cratchit's home, donates generously to charity and then celebrates with his own nephew. Scrooge continued to treat every day forward as if it where Christmas and did so better than
The most important times with my family are the holidays and special occasions spent together as a group. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents all gather together at one of our homes in celebration of Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the new year, birthdays, and graduations. We always have an abundance of dishes steaming with decadent food, such as my grandmom’s homemade macaroni and cheese. My mom usually fixes her sweet party punch: a mixture of Hawaiian punch, sprite, and sherbet. We gather around, eating, opening gifts, talking and laughing.