On Friday before sunset we had a small party: food and music by a kind of Mariachi band (Google: Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Cocula, Jalisco, Mexico. Usually a mariachi consists of at least three violins, two trumpets, one Mexican guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarrón (a small-scaled acoustic bass) and by a a Sinaloa (= the local province/state) band. You can watch a small video on that at http://www.screencast.com/t/QRt2bpuq0xQ . They ususally play "simple" songs of olden times, basically "fun time" rhythms good for singing along (I did not) and dancing (I would have liked to but was too shy, as you know I am, to ask Teresa). I got a bit soft when they played "La Paloma Blanca" which was the theme song of the Odenwald big July event of the "Wiesenmarkt" in Erbach some 40 years ago! Anyway, even without singalong and dancealong it was a nice event for the geriatric inmates of the Trailer Park. Which, by the way, is pretty much filled up by now.
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