Plomo... What?

On our first night out in Houston some of my girlfriends decided to RA sushi. It was almost Dany’s twenty-first birthday and we were deciding little details. Before I continue the story you have to have an idea of who she is. Dany is the second oldest of the group and she is a planning freak. Let me explain: she needs to have every event planned in detail months before an event: what we are doing, what we are wearing, the time, the place, everything. Let’s just say that she already knows exactly what her braid maids are wearing and her boyfriend has not even proposed. It might sound like she is a little bit crazy, but everyone knows that her birthday parties, get-together’s and trips are definitely the most fun to go to. So, that night at RA sushi we were talking about her birthday party and she wanted us to brainstorm of what we could all wear to the party. Like a color theme. Obviously some mentioned the common black-and-white party, or “Wear red” themed. While we were debating between colors and themes Maki, the oldest of us, stopped our conversation and we knew she had the perfect theme. Let’s all wear lead (plomo). I really wish I could say that in Spanish “plomo” is a color we use often, but it is used just as the word lead is used in English. We all looked at each other and couldn’t stop laughing. Lead? We asked. Maki tried to explain what she was thinking when she thought of all of us wearing a beautiful lead color dress, but it was too funny to make sense out of it. Obviously other crazy ideas came up making fun of what Maki had just said. “Let’s all wear baby-chicken yellow.” We never forgot of how funny it was when we all pictured ourselves in lead outfits. The name “Las Plomo” which translates to “The Lead Girls” stuck with us. We all remember it as a night that not only our “name” came up but a night when we realized that we could enjoy each other’s company and have the time of our lives laughing at something so simple as a color.