Random relatives birthday party

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of accompanying my family to a relative in Alotenango 50th birthday party. I had a blast...but the six hours I spent there could have been condensed into two. We ate a yummy meal of chicken, rice, and tortillas, complete with piña coladas made out of fresh pineapple and coconuts. Yum. But of course, only one, because i just follow what my mom and host sisters do...even though the drinks kept being offered and the men enjoyed more than a few. The family runs a disco, so they had all this great sounds equipment and for the entire time we listened to booming bass coming out of 5 foot speakers. The music started off with early 90´s depressing love ballads in English, but then progressed to cumbia, marimba, reggaeton, and even some Garìfuna (from Livingston, the city in the northeast part of the country make up of decendents from slaves from Africa). The party was complete with a gigantic snowman piñanta that the kids went nuts over. There was a 45 minute break in the loud bass music for the live Mariachi band that showed up to serenade and entertain the crowd. I danced with my host dad to the Mariachi music and with a bunch of the cousins to the reggaeton and salsa music. There was a gigantic lightning storm in the midst of all this and the power kept going off and coming back on. There was gushing water from the tent overhead and the lightning lit up the whole sky like specialty club lights. The entire experience was quite fun...but like everything in Guatemala, went on much longer than necessary.