One of the thousands of things I’ve learned working at Zocalo is how to make balloons decorations, arches, pillars, etc. Never in my whole life had made that many balloons, even my kids learned and helped me with all the decorations and we had such a great time doing it together.

One day for our first Carnaval party, Leo (friend of Zocalo) came out with an idea of decorating the restaurant with colorful balloon stars and hang them up in the high ceilings of  Zocalo, so we talked about it and planned everything, we were so excited with the idea. When the day came we inflate about 2000 balloons in just couple of hours, we barely felt our fingers after all the balloon tying, at the end everything was worth it because the restaurant looked fabulous  and I think people really liked what we had done!

After the Carnaval party we had so many other events such as Cinco de Mayo, Zocalo Anniversary party, Mexican Independence Day, recently the Haiti Fundraiser, etc. Then I thought why not do the balloons again? So I decided to make balloons decorations for every special event at Zocalo.

For the Cinco de Mayo party I had to do something different, so I was really nervous because since I had zero experience in this, I had no idea of what to do. After thinking over and over again of what to make I had this idea of making big balloons letters so with the help of my husband we made the big wired letters and we spelled out “CINCO” meaning May 5th.

After all these special events and after making so many balloons, now there’s some people who called me “the balloon lady” can anybody guess why?

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and hope to see you on our upcoming events for 2010..

Claudine Quintero