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They came last night to Querétaro, they arrive on time, as usual, with presents to all the kids and people who behave well in the year.

In Mexico instead of Santa Claus, we have the Three Kings, they deliver gifts to the kids, just like they did to baby Jesus, with the pass of time and the influence of media (US media mainly) Santa Claus started to come here, but is not as popular as the Three Magic Kings, because only a few part of the kids have presents from Santa Claus too.

The three kings have many stuff involved in their tradition, the cake, which is a fruit cake (that is fresh and tasty not like the other of christmas) in which there are four doll hidden they represent baby Jesus, you can cut the cake in any part, it doesn't have an order, to increse the mistery of the location of the doll.

In the night before the kings arrive all kids write a letter, I wrote my letters several days before and put it in the tree (christmas), to deliver the letter to the kings there are several ways, one being the mexican post office, they have special Postal Box to the kings, and the more traditional and trusty, the balloon, the kings live in the stars, not some place in north pole, they are more special than that, so we tie the letter to a ballon full with helium and let it fly, the balloon always arrives to their three stars (Orion's Belt).

We have to leave food (cookies and milk) to the kings and food and water to the elephant, horse and camel they use to travel.

Under the tree you leave a shoe, your favorite or older shoe, they will leave your toys under the shoe, they arrive at my house, and deliver gifts to my mom, dad and me!, we behave really good.

In my city you can see them delivering toys al night, really you can see them!!

Remember that I mention the orphan boys that came to my workplace, well it was very fun, and I was dressed as a king!! my dream come true, I deliver tons of toys to the orphans, and also clothes, the idea is tu furfill their letters, and we did!

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I live in Corregidora, Querétaro, which is part of the greater area of the city of Santiago de Querétaro, which means that Santiago de Querétaro (better known just as Querétaro) grew so much that cities arround it became part of it. We share the same code area (442) the same start of the postal code (76...).

Well I set the presedent, because of that I have influence of two city mayors, the one of Santiago de Querétaro, which is the big city, capital city, rich city mayor and the Corregidora mayor, a mayor many people doesn't even know he exist, many people don't know that Corregidora is not a complete part of the city of Queretaro. So he has a problem of attention, yesterday he presented his last Year Public Inform, by law all mayors, governors and the president have to present an inform about their activities and achivments to the population. To made his more attractive to media, and population in general he invited the musical band "Kumbia Kings" which are very poopular right now in all Mexico, despite the angry comments taped against mexicans by AB Quintanilla (that's another story).

So for the first time he has over 2,000 people in his speech, and if they wanted to hear Kumbia Kings, they had to listen the entire speech.

The speech/musical/concert had place infront of the goverment center in Corregidora just under the shadow of the only indian pyramid in my city, which made the set very good looking.