CINCO DE MAYO

Well the 5th of May is here and we have no Corona to pass around. Maybe I will just eat a lime and think about Mexico for a minute or so. Viva La Cerveza.

HISTORY LESSON OF THE DAY
Well, lets see. Mexico owed money to Spain, England, and France who demanded repayment. Debt to the U.S. was settled after the Mexican-American War, So we walked out with pesos in our pockets.
France wants their money but but decided to claim Mexico for their own with their own leadership, seems Napoleon had a cousin Archduke Maximilian of Austria, who was unemployed at the moment and needed a job, so the French decided that he could run Mexico. Spain and England noticed that France was getting cocky and wanted to overthrowing the Mexican Govt so they got out of the picture.
EMPIRE EXPANSION:
Now Mexico said "hey screw you guys" and quit paying the money back that they owed France. French leadership must have had a little to much brandy or something because they sent 6,500 troops to take down the Mexican Army. France's march toward Mexico City started at Veracruz. U.S. President Lincoln couldn't help because at the time he had his own war to fight at home with the North and South.
Well, Mexican Patriots under the command of Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza Sequin took limited supplies and poor equiptment and defeated the marching French wino's. 4,500 Mexicans against 6,500 well equipped French soldiers.
This really made Napoleon Mad so after getting the news that his troops had been beaten by a RAG TAG Band of Army patriots he sent 30,000 more to get the job done.
Now Max is finale the leader of Mexico. Like other Austrian involved with Empire Expansion his reign was short, 1864-1867.
The GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD located just North of Mexico and Due South of Canada had just finished up with its own conflict and could offer some assistance to the Mexicans political and militarily. With this help the Mexicans once again took back there country and they drug Maximilian out in the streets and filled his French ass with bullets.

And bringing this story to an end,
Cinco De Mayo honors the bravery and victory of Gen Zaragoza's small, outnumbered militia at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, and gives us the Americans a day to eat Tacos and drink Cerveza.

I will catch some photos of some exotic cars one day to place on here. Looks like Germany and Italy send all of there cars here.

SWIMMING IN THE ARABIAN GULF, YES, I swam over to the island.
REAR OF SEALINE BEACH RESORT
THE BIG PEARL AT THE DOCKS IN DOWNTOWN QATAR
ORNAMENTAL TRAFFIC CIRCLE. THERE ARE ALOT OF THESE IN QATAR.

QATAR
some MORE pics

SEALINE RESORT
beach front downtown Doha
Front view of SEALINE Resort
Dhow cruise to an island off the Qatar shoreline
Notice the man mowing the grass. He is not a NATIVE Qatarian

My trip to the Country of Qatar
Here are some of the pics from the trip