Her cousin Maya had booked the terrace of Las Palmas Hotel. Now as night approached, the marimba band took over the festivities with festive salsa music. The trees had been decorated with hundreds of twinkling little lights, and a variety of colorful pinatas hung from ropes above the wedding crowd. The main buffet table held a vast variety of foods, and a sweet Madeira wine fell from a silver fountain and into a pool of sliced fruits. The most unusual feature had to be the huge bird cage filled with bright multi-hued parrots and a few macaws.
"Well? What do you think?" As she spoke, Erica leaned back in her padded chair and fingered one of the wedding cookies from the bowl next to her.
"The night is still young, and amor fills the air." Laughing, Nico tapped the table to the beat of the band's conga drum. "Unless you want to eat some more."