Today, April 30th, is Children's Day (Día del Niño) in Mexico. Children often receive gifts from their relatives, and parties are held in the schools. (Alejandro's nephew Ezra, now in his last year of junior high, is too old for Children's Day.)
A children's festival was being held on the Zócalo for the entire week, so last Saturday, Alejandro and I decided to check it out.
The Zócalo was jammed with people.
The festival included what was billed as the world's largest inflatable castle.
It wasn't opening (for children only) until later that afternoon.
Alejandro posing in a silly umbrella hat that he bought from a vendor.
After a while he took it off because it was giving him a headache.
There were tents where the kids could play games, do artwork and participate in educational activities.
The fire department was dressing the children as firefighters and letting them pretend that they were putting out fires with hoses.
The kids could go inside an ambulance, a firetruck and a police car.
There was a tent with a dinosaur display.
And there was a small zipline. (In Spanish they call it a "tirolesa".)
We quickly grew tired of maneuvering through the crowds under a broiling sun. We left the festival and went to a nearby rooftop café to relax and cool off with a cold drink.
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