What's up Tangerineys!
We are Tangerine Travels! You are Tangerineys!
I'm Maddie, this is Jordan. [Laughter]
And we just had a really really great
breakfast at one of our favorite spots in the whole city of Guadalajara called
Organic Now. And now we're gonna head to our Airbnb.
And I just seriously, I can't wait! It's our first holiday, our first Mexican
holiday! Is this is our very first holiday or like our first major holiday? I'm
not sure. First major holiday for sure!
Yeah. Are you excited? Yeah, this is going to be fun!
I'm excited!
So after some scary driving through Guadalajara, we just made it to our Airbnb. We
say that every time we bring the car out here.
It's like - you just said it in the car, it's like it gets worse
every new time we go out and drive, I hate it so much. [Laughter]
But anyway, thank you to
everyone who's booked through Airbnb through our link because it really helps
us be able to go more places. Like this weekend! This is - it's a big expense for
us to get a hotel or an Airbnb somewhere. Because of you guys, were able to do this.
And if you haven't signed up for Airbnb yet, you can go ahead and do that with
our link that we're gonna put in the description. It is bright! [Laughter] And you get $40
off your first stay and then we get a little bit as well. Now we're walking to
Avenida Chapultepec because it's super close to this Airbnb. Because we noticed
on the drive over here that they are setting a bunch of stuff up. I believe this is for
the parade, the military parade tomorrow.
We are in Jardin Del Carmen (Carmen Garden)
Del Carmen. Del Carmen.
And we are en route to the center of Guadalajara.
The center (of the city) is almost 30 minutes from our Airbnb.
Now, we are eating. We are eating dinner.
Ah yes, 30 minutes walking.
We're grabbing a bit to eat here.
And I got a pesto pasta with chicken for 69 pesos.
And I got nachos for 49 pesos. [Laughter]
We're not even through security yet. It's only 5:00 p.m. Mexican parties start
Late. And man, there's a lot of people here already! Yeah, so we're pretty much in
Centro right now, and the difference between this morning when we had to go
to the post office, just a few streets over that way, is insane! The amount of
people that are here now! Oh yeah!
We're about to go through security and it looks like
there's a lot less people in there, which is just my style! [Laughter]
We just went through security
Super easy! Pretty much take stuff out of your pocket, go through the metal detector. Uh-huh.
He did look at my bug spray funny though. I don't know what that was about.
But yeah, a lot less people. I thought maybe it would cost something?
Or that you could only get in once,
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Uh-huh. Why do you think that because there weren't
many people inside? Yeah, because no one's going inside! I thought maybe it was like
go inside and that's it, you have to stay here.
So we were living in Guadalajara for 4 months. A little over 4 months or so.
And I don't think we were ever.
Part of an event this big. And this is not even in the full swing of things, which is kind of crazy!
Yeah this is gonna be nuts!
You can just feel the excitement and the energy, or maybe that's me. [Laughter]
So we just walked out of the hullabaloo of Centro, and into a shoe store. Because my
other shoes were getting so bad. We hit airport security, so we're turning around
now. [Laughter] Someone recently told me that they recognized me
When we were walking by, or
will recognize us, because they saw my boots. Well, I'm sad to tell you guys. But
those very recognizable boots that I've been wearing for seven months now
have completely died. Thank goodness, it's about time!
They were getting really bad!
Show me your botas!
You guys, new shoes have never felt so good! And they were
239? Twenty-nine. 229 pesos.
Which might be the cheapest pair of shoes I've ever
bought. Cheapest pair of boots.
One thing I've never done before,
I literally put my old shoes, my old boots, in the box that these came from and
I was like "Do you guys have a trash in here?"
If that tells you how bad they
were. And I'm just hoping that they can give them to someone, or redo the soles, or I don't
know. Revive them somehow. Good luck! They're long past their life span. [Laughter]
Ah! It smells so good!
So we just stopped to get a quick drink at Degollado, which is at Teatro
De Degollado. Yeah, it's the same name. Oh, Degollado. Okay.
And right now, we can see the area in front of us completely
filling up with people! We were getting slightly overwhelmed, which I know is
kind of sad, considering there's way more people coming every single second. What
do you think so far? This is how we like it. We're off to the side with a
view of everyone. [Laughter] Not really in the crowd, but still able to feel a part of it. [Laughter]
So it's about... [Music starts playing] to start the music. [Laughter]
Nevermind! [Laughter] So it's about eight o'clock. There's live music.
This gigantic mariachi band! Like 100
people! I'm just kidding, it's probably a 12 man mariachi band. [Laughter]
There's a lot more people! It's a lot louder! But surprisingly...[the Mariachi band getting really loud]
I can't - I can't top that. I'm sorry. Try!
No! [Laughter]
What was I going to say? Oh, so the kids are doing their "do do do" horns and all that. And now
It feels like the party's really getting started!
Yeah, there starting to be a lot more energy here!
Yeah.
We're doing with typically late-night thing and getting elote! [Laughter]
What do you think?
There's fireworks going off in the background! And we're
eating esquite!
So we're trying to make it to the middle now.
It's a little after 11. There's tons of people here. It's really loud!
Tons of music. It's really heating up! There's people dancing to all the live music which is
Awesome! We've picked a spot, we're probably going to stay here.
Pretend like we know the dances!
Do it anyway because it's fun! [Laughter]
This is a really good time! It's a huge event!
Definitely, do you think the biggest we've been to in Mexico?
Oh, yeah. By far!
Yeah.
So there is a boxer, a fighter from
Jalisco, who just won a huge fright. Fight. (Maddie struggling to say "fight")
A huge fright. It was a fright but he won it. [Laughter]
Canelo. So Woo! Viva Mexico!
So I just realized, the mayor of Jalisco, in addition to the scream, El Grito.
The yell. The mayor of Jalisco? Is it the mayor? The president? Governor. The emperor?
[Laughter] Governor. The governor of Jalisco.
Is going to do El
Grito, and gong the bell. You guys. Gong the bell! [Laughter]
He's gonging our bell! The ultimate gong the bell!
Alright guys. So as it turns out, we didn't know what we were doing.
Well something weird happened, I think. The fireworks that we saw earlier in the
night, somewhere around early 10 o'clock? Yeah.
Might have been at the time El grito
happened? So we went over there at, I don't know 10:36, because everyone we
talked to said El Grito happens at midnight. And then after that there
was a concert, and then after the concert everyone left! I mean almost immediately.
So we thought "What the heck is going on?" And the friends that we were with thought
that it was because people were upset with the government. Yeah, were upset with the government.
Have kind of gripes with them for not doing the right thing, corruption. Yeah we waited around
for an hour, and then at midnight, nothing happened! Security was leaving,
Almost everyone cleared out.
So I'm kind of sad we missed like the grand finale
basically. We saw the fireworks and everything, and I'm not gonna lie this
was super super fun! And the concert was really cool! Yeah.
But the events aren't
over. There's going to be parades tomorrow and stuff, and we're going to be checking them out!
And we're not going to freaking mess this up!
Good morning! We got ourselves out of bed early. Dragged our booties out here. And
now, we are going to experience our first Mexican parade, the independence day parade. In
Guadalajara. So if we can wake ourselves up with a little bit of coffee
here, maybe a lot a bit of coffee. I think we're going to enjoy this! [Laughter]
So a bunch of the parade has gone by, what do you think has been the most unique
part? Well I didn't know there was such a thing as, like hawks, involved in military. So,
There were like attack hawks, fighting hawks, I don't know.
[Laughter] I've never seen that before. Yeah, I thought that was super unique!
And most of these guys are on point, like seeing them all walk in unison is super
cool! It's all flawless! So I didn't totally know what to expect with this
Parade. I honestly thought it was going to be like different branches of military
marching. But I was not expecting hawks, horses, dogs, reforestation, helicopters
flying over.
This parade keeps going, and going, and going! There's so much to it!
Helicopters flying over. All different branches of military. Sirens going! So many people!
Seeing all the different types of military and police go by, makes me think
back to when we first came to Mexico. And I literally thought anyone who was a
police of some kind was a "Federale," because in the u.s. people commonly
refer to them as "the federales." So I just thought that's what police were called. It wasn't
until further down the line that I'm like "Oh, that's the Federal Police!" And
there's the state police, and then municipal police, transit cops.
Transit cops. Darn those transit cops!
Based on the huge amount of people in this parade, I would think that this is
an entire military of Mexico! But it can't be, it has to be like a small
portion of it, which is crazy!
Unless this is the only - one of the main parades? Yeah. But I can't imagine that this doesn't happen in every big city.
In every state of Mexico. But there's so many people!
They just keep going and going and going!
We think that the helicopters were flying so low that they knocked down all these
branches here.
So we're at glorietta niño heroes right now. And this is where the
parade starts - right over here. And over there. And over there. They've got
everyone lined up on all these side streets. How on earth did they organize this?
Oh yeah, yeah, you're right! On all of these side streets! Oh my gosh!
Wow! We went over to the beginning of the parade to expect
to find the end of it. But no, it just keeps going it going! And it's not
just the military. Now it's like the fire department and other emergency personnel.
Forest services. The calvary. [Laughter] The calvary.
So as usual, we had no idea what to expect with this parade! I thought it was
gonna be like 30 minutes of people marching. And I mean the crowd is about
what I would expect, especially for somewhat early on in the morning
after a night of partying. Yeah, how do they expect you to get up so early after
staying up till midnight waiting for El Grito? To not happen at midnight. But
this was a lot of fun, a good end to the weekend. I don't know if more stuff is
gonna happen later in the day, but if not, our first Mexican
Independence Day was kind of awesome! Yeah, this is super cool, and this parade was no joke! Alright,
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