World Cup Finals Party

Come and join us for the world cup finals. With samba dancers and drummer it’s the next best thing to being there!

        

Ch. 10 @ 5pm– Ryan Yamamoto

Ch.3 @ 6pm– Del Rodgers

Ch. 13 @ 10pm– Tony Lopez

Ch. 40 @ 5:30– Dennis Shanaham (for this link, type \’kings draft\’ in the search box for the video.)

        

Out of the 14 teams in the Lottery, the Kings have the third-best odds of receiving the number one pick in the Draft. Last year, the Kings received the fourth pick in the Draft and selected Tyreke Evans, who went on to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award and finished the season as only the fourth player in NBA history to average at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists per game in a rookie season, joining Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

        

Cinco de Mayo will be bigger than ever this year. We’re expanding the party on to the sidewalks, there will be live music from our famous Mariachis. Also, get there early so you don’t miss a special performance by the Foklorico Dancers.

        

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

        

Although the restoration of Haiti will not be in one night, Zocalo is putting on a fund raiser to help the people of Haiti for one evening on Feburary 25th, 2010. The event will be followed by musical entertainment, a live painter, a salsa performance, guest bartender, and a silent auction. We have many sponsors that have donated generous gifts and amazing people who have given up their time to be involved. 100% of the proceeds from that night will be given to World Vision; a non-profit organization.

World Vision has been in Haiti for over 30 years and has more than 800 staff members on the ground. Some one once said to me, “be the change you wish to see in the world,” it might sound a little cliche but some times the simplest words make the largest impact. Although it may not seem like this is taking place in your own back yard, I urge you to be “one.” Be the “one” that does a simple act that will change a persons life. Be the “one” to give when others wont. Be the “one” change the world needs to see.