Monday, February 06, 2012

Monday 6th February 2012….Big holiday!!!

Mexico Constitution Day

Constitution day in Mexico and its importance.

Mexico's Constitution Day is a really big deal, another holiday that everyone shuts down the shop for. Mexico had battled Spain for their independence, and then had arguments among themselves on how they were going to run the country. In 1917, Santiago de Queretaro drafted the Constitution of the United States of Mexico, and this constitution is the one that is in use still today. The Mexican Constitution changed their form of government to reflect the social and political workings of the government today. Constitution Day in Mexico is celebrated with parades, festivals, and families getting together. Mexican pride is felt throughout the entire country, and often the president addresses the country on national television. February 5th is the day that the constitution was signed, and to celebrate, the sale of liquor is stopped from February 2nd until the midnight on the 5th. They do this because of Pancho Villa, the bandit that banded together an army of thousands to fight in the revolution. I assume that they wanted everyone to be sober for the time of the signing, as it was in those days, most everyone drank heavily and on a regular basis. Mexican constitution day and the banning of the sale of liquor is only really celebrated in the non tourist areas of Mexico, although all government offices close during this time.

The above was taken from a Mexico travel website!!

Also today a huge day in England!!!

 

Jubilees and other milestones

The Diamond Jubilee takes place in 2012, marking 60 years of The Queen’s reign. The Queen came to the throne on 6th February 1952 (her Coronation took place on 2nd June 1953).

Buckingham Palace is responsible for coordinating the events of the Diamond Jubilee central weekend (2nd–5th June 2012), as well as for organizing The Queen’s programme in her Diamond Jubilee year. Details of The Queen’s programme will be announced in due course.

So a big holiday here in SMA and many tourists and Mexican travellers in the city and all the schools were closed.

I went up to Ramona this morning to get some things ready for when I move her back to the RV park on Friday.

I then had an appointment with Robin and decided to give her a farewell gift of flowers and just had to take a photo of this beautiful display arrangement at my favorite flower stall!!

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Then in the same little market could not pass these up without a purchase!!

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It was a good meeting with Robin and two other members about the new Canada Amistad agreement.  After the meeting I stayed behind and Robin and I talked about Paola…all my close friends who know her say the same thing that is not the same fearless little  girl of last year and I think Sara summed it up best when she said that something or someone has broken her spirit!!

Robin is going to check out with the Madres, and councilors and will keep me in the loop.

It just breaks my heart to her so low and her heart is heavy wish I could make it all go away!!

Late afternoon and a thunderous downpour again..it just rained so hard and Sara sent me these photos of the streets outside Casita Doris after the rain!!

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I am now in the TV room downstairs and I often wonder about modern communication here I am watching the news on TV and the broadcast is from Vancouver Island  and I am seeing news about happenings in Nanaimo…small world!!!

3 comments:

Kevin Read said...

Seems like it's raining all over Mexico. But although today was a rare cloudy afternoon here on the Pacific coast, we haven't seen rain since October 16!

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mexicokid said...

this is the second time in three days we have rain so hard the streets are flooded!!!

mexicokid said...

this is the second time in three days we have rain so hard the streets are flooded!!!

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