2. Mariachis serenade you as the sun comes up.
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been woken up by one of my neighbors being serenaded on their birthday at 6am. The sounds of mariachis singing “Las Mañanitas” (“Little Mornings”) drifts through the window. While it’s beautiful, I always think if it were my birthday I’d prefer they arrived a little later.
3. You get “Las Mañanitas” sung to you, even at night.
Speaking of “Las Mañanitas,” Mexico is one of the few Latin countries with a birthday song that’s not simply a Spanish adaptation of “Happy Birthday.” The “Little Mornings” song describes the beauty of the morning in which the singer comes to congratulate the birthday boy or girl. Before it was only sung in the morning; nowadays, it can be sung at any time, usually when the candles have been lit on the birthday cake.