as someone who studied abroad in mexico, it also makes me laugh slash eyeroll at los yankees.
its a victory yes, but in a war they lost!
sept 15/16 is when the real party is 
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Posted by Lenetta on Friday, May 6, 2011 12:32 AM (EDT):
Lina, where did you study? I got to spend a month studying in Puebla, where the battle took place! Fascinating story, but yeah, they totally lost the war.
Posted by Lina MGM on Friday, May 6, 2011 8:40 AM (EDT):
queretaro, queretaro - 2 hours north of mexico city. i never did make it to puebla, but i really wanted to!
We also don’t celebrate it, but I was inspired by other cookie bloggers to do something special. You can check it out here: http://ourfieldoflittleflowers.blogspot.com/2011/05/cinco-de-mayo.html
Ole!
Posted by Suzanne on Friday, May 6, 2011 4:25 PM (EDT):
We aren’t Mexican, but, we had a Cinco de Mayo Fiesta last evening as a fundraiser. Our daughter’s high school choir received a special invite to perform at the Festival of the Aegean in Greece summer 2012. We have to raise $3000 per child, so we’re getting creative with what we do. It was fun! Our choir performed 4 songs, 2 Mexican, and the dance students (performing arts Charter school!) performed a Mexican folkloric dance and Flamenco. We also had a dance teacher teach salsa to guests. We only had a small crowd, but we still raised almost $3000! 29 studnets to go!
We usually make something special for dinner, although now that I think about it we eat Mexican food a lot so I don’t know that it’s really out of the ordinary. Last night I made fish tacos which was a first for me, so I guess that was special. They were tasty! If I wasn’t pregnant, I totally would have been down with a margarita, too.
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Nope. We live in S. Texas about 150 miles from the border. No one here celebrates Cinco de Mayo with the exception of a few of the larger Mexican restaurants that are draws for tourists. A few bars around town have cheap margaritas too.
5/5 usually closely follows Fiesta here in SA which is a celebration of another completely obscure occurrence in history and most of the town is fairly all partied out…at least for another couple weeks.