One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is that you could parachute down into some random block of this endless desert expanse and feel like you are in a different country. One of those blocks is at Central and Olympic downtown--ground zero for the world's most fantastic pinatas, north of the border. For an hour you can feel like you are in Mexico. There are thousands of pinatas in a half dozen stores. There are tiny domestic pinatas, fit for a small apartment, and HUGE five foot high pinatas to hang from towering oaks in park. They are disney characters, beer bottles, stars, giraffes, lions and burros. If you go in the morning, truck after truck rolls up and starts unloading MORE pinatas. From where? I don't know. But they pour out of pick up trucks and little delivery trucks, handed into owners and lifted up to hang outside, or inside on the rafters, where you can look up for 40 feet into a sea of pink, orange, blue and yellow streamers and pinatas.
Even if you don't have a birthday party, a quincineara, a wedding, a graduation party or a birth to celebrate, it will lift your spirits just to walk among the colorful pinatas. I swear to you!
And maybe you will realize you need to have a party just to get a pinata. Or you could just decorate your house with a huge, joyful, brightly colored piece of folk art.
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