Reina Roja

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I read a book called “Reina Roja” (Red Queen). It was written by Adriana Malvido. It’s about a Mayan queen. Fanny Lopez and her team discovered a sarcophagus in 1994, in Palenque, Chiapas state of Mexico. The called that as “Red Queen”, as the bones were in red colour due to a substance the Mayans added to the dead body. They knew that the sarcophagus was of an important person as it had Jade mask and skeletons of 2 other person with it. The two skeletons signify that the souls of these two persons will accompany the soul of main body to the nine worlds, which they had to cross to reach either one of the three heavens. They presumed that the sarcophagus could be mother or grandma or wife or daughter-in-law of a great Mayan king of Palenque called Pakal. Pakal’s sarcophagus was found 50 years ago in the same region. They compared Pakal’s bones and the queen’s bones to see if there was any DNA resemblance. But recently they found that there isn’t any resemblance between them. Hence the sarcophagus could be his mother or grandma. So they think that the Reina Roja may be his wife or daughter-in-law. But many believe that it could be his wife. It isn’t sure who the Reina Roja is yet. The true name of the Reina Roja is still a mystery. But when they searched more to find the identity of Reina Roja, they found many other Mayan secrets in Palenque. This book is very interesting. I liked it.

Parras-Pueblo Mágico

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On 9th August we went to a town called Parras. We went with Dra. Lilia and Sra. Magda. We stayed in the house of Dra.’s friend. We met Sra. Mary (92 years old) and her daughters Lola, Sonia, Virtudes, Aurora, her son Arturo, son in law Sr. Carlos (husband of Sra. Sonia), her granddaughters, grandsons and many other people. Parras is nearly 1 and half hours from Torreon by car. Parras is very nice town. There are many orchards of grapes, nuts, avocados and other fruits.
On Thursday evening, we attended a festival of a saint called San Lorenzo, in which they also organize their fair of grapes and wine (Feria de las Uvas y el Vino). One of the granddaughters of Sra. Mary, Srta. Dora Maria Silva (daughter of Sr. Arturo) was selected as the Queen of the Fair. Sr. Arturo named his son as Rabindranath, in memory of great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
They took us to a place where they make wine, called Casa Madero. It was established in 1597. So, Parras is more than 400 years old town. There we first saw some traditional dancers called matachines. They were dressed colorfully and danced very nicely. Then we went to the Church there, where they offered prayers for the event. The Church was decorated very beautifully.
In the night the matachines came down from a hill with a torch. At the same time there were fireworks on the hill. It looked beautiful. When they reached Casa Madero, they lighted wood fire. They danced around the fire until it went out. Again there were fireworks. It was very good and I liked them. It was midnight when we returned home, but the party continued with dances until morning.
On Friday at about 10 a.m. there was a parade from the town to San Lorenzo (where the Casa Madero is located). The queen of the grapes and vine, Dora Maria Silva, “God Baco” (Roman God of Grapes), princess of the grapes, matachines (one type of folklore dancers in Mexico), and other people took part in the parade. Ms. Dora Maria is the 4th queen of the Fair from their family.
In Casa Madero, the Queen and the princess crushed the grapes (“molienda”) with their feet. This is an old custom to start the wine making process for the year. It was very nice. After the “molienda”, we took photos with the queen and the “God Baco”. I took many photos of the event.
Later we also attended a lunch party in the Hacienda of the Casa Madero. It is a beautiful and big place. The owners of Casa Madero organized this party and have invited all those participated in the parade and their family and friends for the party. During the lunch Mariachi (traditional music group) was also played. We ate lot of sweet grapes of the town and also the traditional sweets of milk, fruit and nuts.
After the lunch Sra. Sonia and Sra. Virtudes took us to see various tourist spots in Parras. First we went to 2 tanks of water where people could swim. Then we went to Srta. Dora Maria’s house. It was very nice. Later we went to Sra. Sonia’s house. There she grows avocados, peaches and other fruit trees. She gave avocados, peaches and other things to Dra. Lilia, Sra. Magda and to us. They also took us to traditional sweets shops and we bought many sweets made of milk and nuts. They were very tasty.
We returned to Torreon on Friday night. I like Parras: Uno de los Pueblos Mágicos de México (One of the magic towns of Mexico).

Hacienda de los Hornos

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This one is about my trip to “La Hacienda de los Hornos”. On 5th August we went there with Dra. Lilia, Srta. Yessica, Sra. Luz Maria, Sra. Magda and Sr. Miguel Angel, brother of Sra. Magda and his family. I made friendship with Andrea (daughter of Sr. Miguel) in this trip.
La Hacienda de los Hornos is near the village of Viesca. It’s the first house that was built in the region “La Laguna”. In that place there is a church which is also very old. It’s the region where there are the cities of Torreon (where I live), Gomez Palacio, Lerdo and other little villages. Las Dunas de Bilbao (sand dunes) is also near Viesca. We couldn’t go there this time.
Though the hacienda is in deteriorated condition, it was nice to see it. It has 2 floors, but there aren’t any stairs to go up. So Andrea, Yessica, amma and me climbed the wall to go to the first floor. From there, the view was very beautiful. In the church there were little statues of Santa Ana (Mary’s mother), paintings and the many other old things. After visiting these places we returned to Torreon. We went to eat tacos in a home restaurant. The tacos were very tasty. I liked this trip. I hope you enjoyed reading about it.

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

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Dra. Lilia and Yessica gifted me the new Harry Potter book. They bought it in Venice, Italy during their Europe tour. This blog is about it. The book is very very interesting. I loved it!!!.

Harry was waiting for the people of the order of phoenix to take him, his aunt, uncle and Dudley to a safer place as Voldemort might be searching them. After his uncle’s family had left, Moody arrives with Arthur, Fred, George, Bill, Ron, Hermione, Fleur, Lupin, Tonks, Hagrid, Kingsley and Mundugus Fletcher. They plan a trick and form 7 Harrys’ with the poly-juice potion in order to confuse the death eaters. Harry goes with Hagrid. In this journey Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig get killed as they were attacked by Death Eaters.
After some days the family of Ron and their friends celebrate Harry’s birthday in the burrow. The minister of magic came during the party and gave the things that Dumbledore left to Harry, Ron and Hermione in his will. Harry got the snitch that he caught in his first Quidittch match and Godric Gryffindor sword, Ron the deluminator and a children book for Hermione. The minister gave them all those things except the sword. Then Bill and Fleur’s wedding took place. During the wedding party, Kingsley informs everyone that the minister of magic had died. Harry, Ron and Hermione disapparated to a common muggle street. There they went to a quiet bar where death eaters attack them. After escaping they went to Harry’s house (the house that Sirius left him). In there Harry saw a letter from his mom to Sirius. He also finds out that R.A.B. was Sirius brother. So they start searching for the locket. Later Hermione remember that Kreacher hid all the valuable things of the house. They went with Kreacher and ask him if he knew about the locket. He tells them that Mundugus had taken it. Harry also asked how Regulus got it. Kreacher started telling the story. Then Harry told him to bring Mundugus there. Lupin visits them and asks if he could also go with them. But Harry tells that he has to be with his wife Tonks, as she was pregnant. Some days later Kreacher came with Mundugus. They ask Mundugus about the locket and he informs that he has sold it to Umbridge. So Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to go the Ministry of magic to take it. After lot of struggle, they take away the locket from Umbridge. Then they disapparate into the forest. There Hermione put many charms to their tent in order to be safe. Now the problem was that they couldn’t destroy the locket as they didn’t have Godric Gryffindor’s sword. After a quarrel with Harry, Ron leaves both Harry and Hermione. After some time Harry and Hermione went to Godric Hollow. This was where Dumbledore had lived, Harry was born, his parents had died and where Gryffindor was born. They go to the cemetery first. Later they saw Bathilda, they follow her. Bathilda takes Harry to a room and attacks him. She converts herself into Nagini, Voldemort’s snake. Hermione saves him but accidentally breaks Harry’s wand. They both return to the forest. Later one day Harry sees Gryffindor’s sword in a lake and goes for it. But the water was so cold that he was nearly dying. Ron returns, saves Harry and takes the sword. Then Harry asks Ron to destroy the locket with the sword. Then they return back to the tent and tell Hermione about what they had done.
Some time afterwards they visit Mr. Lovegood to get details about a sign. He tells them that it was the sign of the Deathly Hollows and about its legend. Harry understands that he has 2 of the 3 things. He just didn’t have the elder wand. He wants to find it, but Hermione and Ron tells him that they should first destroy the horcruxes. They later return to their camp. There Harry accidentally mentions the name Voldemort instead of telling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Suddenly death eaters appear and take them to Malfoy’s house. They lock them up. Suddenly Dobby appears, saves Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna Lovegood, Mr. Ollivander, Dean and a goblin and takes them to Bill’s house. But Dobby also gets killed by Bellatrix. During the fight, Harry takes away Malfoy and Bellatrix wand.
After some time Harry, Ron and Hermione ask the goblin if he could take them to the Lestrange’s account. They thought a horcrux could be there. The goblin wants the sword in change. They accept and go to Gringott and take the horcrux. It was Helga Hufflepuff’s cup. They escape in a dragon. The goblin took the sword from Harry as they were escaping.
Harry thinks that Voldemort might have the final horcrux in Hogwarts. He has to kill Nagini as the snake was a horcrux. In the meantime Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes away the Elder Wand. Dumbledore’s brother helps Harry, Ron and Hermione to get inside Hogwarts. In Hogwarts they meet many their friends, who are in Dumbledore’s Army. They help Harry to find out the diadem of Rawenclaw. Luna took Harry to Ravenclaw’s common room as there was a statute of Rawenclaw with the diadem. Harry stuns the death eaters and tells Prof. McGonagall about the object that he was searching and that Voldemort is going to come to Hogwarts to fight. Many people of the order of phoenix come to Hogwarts to fight against Voldemort. Percy also returns back to their family. Lupin tells Harry that Tonks had her baby. He was called Teddy and requests Harry to be the godfather of his child, which Harry accepts.
Later Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the room of hidden things, where Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle attack them. The diadem was destroyed by the fire caused by a spell uttered by Crabbe. Harry and others escape. Earlier, Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with the basilisk.
Later Voldemort kills Snape. Snape gives his memories to Harry. He goes to Dumbledore’s office to see memories of Snape. Fred, Lupin and Tonks die during the fight. Harry comes to know many new things from the memories of Snape. Snape was not really been in Voldemort side and realizes that Snape was a good person and was doing things as per the advice of Dumbledore. When Harry goes to fight with Voldemort, he says Neville about Nagini and that it should be killed. He then saw his parents, Sirius and Lupin in the forest and they tell him that they are always with him in his heart. In the forest Harry pretends that Voldemort has killed him and discusses mentally with Dumbledore. Dumbledore tells him many things. As Voldemort thinks that Harry is dead, take his body inside Hogwarts so that others can see that the Dark Lord had won. When they were inside Harry gets up and fights with Voldemort again. Neville kills Nagini. A rebound from Elder wand hits Voldemort and he dies. Harry wins the fight against the Dark Lord. Harry has the Elder Wand now, but returns it to the tomb of Dumbledore.
Then Harry marries Ginny and nineteen years later they both have 2 sons and 1 daughter. They were called James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron had married Hermione and had 1 daughter called Rose and a son called Hugo. Teddy was also with them. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny go to King cross Station to see off their children to Hogwarts. There they meet Draco, his wife and son.
I hope you all read and enjoy this book.