The Surprise Party

The apartment is totally dark, when the elevator-door into our apartment is opening. Jessica is getting out of the door without any knowledge about what is waiting her. Because in the Dark is around 30 people hiding to give her a surprise-party since she had her birthday the day before (24th of september). When the light is turned on her smile is big and you can see how surprised she is.

This weekend are Celine, Nina, Johan and I having 6 friends staying in our apartment coming not only from Monterrey but also Cuernavaca, where Cecilie and Lasse now is studying and Guadalajara where Louise now is studding. So friends from different part of Mexico have taking their time to come visiting us and seeing Mexico City and celebrating the birthday of Jessica.

All the guest, from different part of the country is taking part in making the right take-off for the night. As a tradition can a birthday-party in Mexico not be celebrated without a Piñata, which can be compared with the idea of “fastelavn” in Denmark where you are hitting the barrel. Here is the difference that you need to hit the Piñata as blindfold so while Johan is giving Jessica a cloth around her eyes so she can’t see anything are the rest of use getting ready to see the show by standing in a good distance from the Piñata.

Before Jessica can show all of us how good she is to hit the Piñata as blindfold does she need to be turned around. As a part of the audience is the most important thing not to be hit. When Jessica is taking the stick up from the ground and is getting ready to hit the Piñata can you see how scared Alexander is to be hit, since he is closes to Jessica sitting in the Sofa. But he has no need for this, since Jessica is hitting the Piñata perfectly and only after around 7 hits is there a hold and it’s time to give the stick to the next one.

Johan is the next in the line. He is ready to show all of us which power he is having. He his turned around and getting ready to hit the Piñata, but just in his third hit is he having to much power so the Piñata is falling down from its spot in the ceiling. We need to have a small brake before Celine is finishing the destruction of the Piñata while it is lying on the floor. Celine just finished what Jessica started so we all now can have a candy before we are continuing the birthday-party at the club POE in Condesa.