How To Say "Holiday"

There are dias festivos that are not official and are religious, you can more or less figure out how important the saint is by the amount of fire crackers exploding and frequency, some of those are near rockets by the explosions.

For me now every day is a dia de fiesta.

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rexlion wrote:
Add to shopping list:
1 wall calendar, in Spanish, with local holidays listed

Which is a great idea until you ask the locals if there is a holiday next week and they have no idea...until the actual day arrives and the of course, they are closed...it's a holiday.

Or it's a holiday in this town but not in the one 10 miles over.

Brenda and Jesus sneered at Lorenzo when he called 16 Sept "Dia de Fiesta".

"Only chicanos say that" she said.

Personally I like Festivo because it pinpoints the day as an official holiday and not merely another San Lunes (Saint Monday is the traditional hangover recuperation day)

But yes, Navegator you are absolutely correct. I was laughing so hard when I typed it up I blew it -- please forgive me. Dia Festivo y el dia se sigue. The day after the big holiday when loud noises and sudden head movement is not tolerated.

Add to shopping list:
1 wall calendar, in Spanish, with local holidays listed
1 bottle Excedrin, for the headache
(when stores re-open, of course)

Hey MEX you missed it.

correct Spanish.

Dia de fiesta

OR

Dia festivo

navegator