Yesterday evening, we invited a small group of our Playa friends over to celebrate Libby’s birthday. Much fun was had, and (too) much wine, beer, and pizza was consumed.
In addition to the traditional birthday cake and singing, Libby was lucky enough to experience a very common Mexican birthday tradition. After the candles were blown out, everyone chanted “Mor-di-da! Mor-di-da! Mor-di-da” (”bite bite bite”) to her, indicating that she should take the first bite out of her cake. When she attempted her first bite, numerous friends (we won’t name names!) helped her by pushing her face into the cake. I’m sure the tradition is only the actual biting of the cake. However, I’ve never seen someone take their bite and get away without having their face shoved into the cake; therefore, the two will forever be considered part of the same tradition for me. Very, very amusing! ha ha!
Happy Birthday, Libby!
See more pics on Heather’s blog.
Feliz cumpleanos Libby!
Finally - a picture of Libby. Happy Birthday!! We miss you at TNT but I’m sure you can’t say the same.
And it’s REALLY, REALLY cold here today, the first day of single digit wind chills. BRRRRRRRRR!
Somebody move her face, I can’t see the cake! :o)
Happy Birthday Libby. Boy, you definitely have some interesting traditions in Playa. I guess it’s ecologically sound because it saves all those nasty plastic forks from ending up in landfills. Go green!
The one (and only) time your humble correspondent did that, he was spitting out teeth for the next five minutes.
Mind you, doing that to his mom was probably not the best idea….