Smashing Success

At the surprise 70th Fiesta-themed birthday for my friend and former colleague Bud Little, there were plenty of cascarones to go around. For the unitiated, cascarones are confetti eggs that you smash on other people's heads while they smash theirs on yours.

To say the least, Rachel embraced the tradition, so much so that we had to curtail her enthusiasm and remind her others wanted access to the cascarones as well. I'm pretty sure we'll be finding slivers of confetti in her scalp for weeks to come!

There were also soap bubbles to keep her entertained. We absconded with four or five containers, but she remains unaware, as we didn't want bubbles floating inside our Honda like a Lawrence Welk on Wheels Revue as we traveled.

There was also a pinata bashing and Rachel ran around the rest of the afternoon eating copious amounts of sugar candy that fell from he pinata. This led to two to three hours of hyperactivity resembling Daffy Duck at his finest.