Since we've been in La Paz we've had the pleasure of attending two "Dia De Los Reyes" celebrations at Judy and Alex's house. In a nutshell, on January 6 Judy and Alex invite people to their house, they serve wonderful Mexican hot chocolate and a delicious sweet bread called a "Rosca". As I've mentioned before, there are little plastic babies baked into the bread (I know, doesn't sound great, all that plastic melting into the bread!) and each person in attendance cuts their very own piece of bread off. There is a lot of laughter as the numbers of babies appear, there may be one baby or as many as five like happened this year. The bearer or bearer's of these plastic babies have the responsibility of providing a tamale dinner for all of those in attendance, which takes place on February 2. Here is Wikipedia's definition in case you want more information than my nutshell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake
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| La "Rosca" and the Baby |
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| Alex Making Us Hot Dogs Afterwards |
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| Our Lovely Hostess, Judy |
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| From The Left: Sharon, Donnely, Pat, Ginger, Helga, Ray and Judy |
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| Ana and Oralia |
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| From the left: Ginger, Ray, Alex, Nick and Judy |
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| Alex's Hot Dogs Which Tasted A Whole Lot Better Than They Looked! |
Party, party, party - you guys are having way too much fun. Love it!
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