The fiesta was held at the Rancho Isabela, and John Roger provided wagon transport for everyone from the compound and both villages. There were the usual fiesta delectations of roasted sides of meats and tablefuls of food and vats of beer chilled in mountain ice, the usual fireworks and music and dancing. The dance floor was a wide clearing of packed dirt, and boys with sprinkler cans of water were charged with keeping down the dust. A large piñata, shaped like a horse and covered with colorful paper and filled with wrapped candies, hung from a tree branch. Each child in turn would be blindfolded and allowed five swings with a wooden pole—one swing for each year of Rogerito’s life—to try to break the piñata as it was made to jounce about on the end of its rope. By custom the birthday boy was allowed to go first and have a few extra swings, as it was deemed good luck for everyone present if he were the one to break the piñata. Felicia Flor and Vicki Clara stood side by side and gave Rogerito loud cheers of encouragement but the best he could manage was to snap off one of the horse’s legs, which contained only filler paper.
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