Rosca de Reyes

On Three Kings Day our staff celebrated by eating a Rosca de reyes. Look it up here to see what this all about. I would plagiarize the explanation, anyway. Inside the Rosca is 5 little plastic baby Jesuses (is the plural Jesi?). The idea is that if you eat a section with one of the baby Jesi in it, you throw a tamale party for your friends on Groundhog’s Day. This is too strange to make up so just believe me like you do Wikipedia.

Of course, I was the first to bite into Jesus. I also bit into the second Jesus. I now have those two baby Jesi sitting in Fun Tack on top of my computer screen. The one on the left stays in place. But the one on the right is constantly moving. I don’t know why but that baby Jesus just won’t stay put. The other day it fell over so far it was almost upside down. I repositioned the Fun Tack and the next day, both baby Jesi were upside down. This was very upsetting, as you can imagine.

Yesterday I put both baby Jesi back on fresh Fun Tack. Today they were both still standing but the baby Jesus on the right is listing to port about 5 degrees away from the other baby Jesus. Every time I try to reposition the Jesus on the right, he just falls down. I’ve even switched the baby Jesi but the one on the right won’t stay still.

I’m trying to place some deep spiritual meaning on these events but I keep coming back to this. I ate a pastry with two baby Jesi baked into it, bit them both, had to buy tamales from a man who was selling them out of a bucket on Groundhog’s Day, and now they are sitting in Fun Tack on my computer screen. Spiritual? Maybe. Strange? Way.