Thursday night fever

Living in KSA, "Thursday night fever" implies much more often warming up your credit card at the mall than dancing all night long. However, there are some exceptions, which happen whenever some compound’s ladies organization do us (by us I mean the expat community) the favour of throwing a party! We were glad to be invited to a party in Saudi Arabia (where having fun the way we do is usually frowned upon), but when we were told it was going to be a Latin-Hispanic fiesta, we virtually got carried away!

And the fiesta did not disappoint us: Spanish paella, carne mechada from Venezuela, Mexican mole (I never enjoyed a mole as much as this one, 14,000 km away from México Lindo!), Spanish sangria, typical dances from Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, and authentic Latin-American music! I even met two Mexican women, one from Monterrey and one from Nuevo Laredo; unfortunately they were only born in Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas. So there was actually no one to remind me of the accent of Monterrey, nor of the charming rude words that I’m particularly fond of! Anyway it was great, the only bad thing about this party was, it made me miss Mexico and my Mexican friends more than ever!  Los quiero amigos!