Caray, Caray!

We meet Natalia on the day she's been elected Queen of the Fishermen of Tuxpan.  She also receives a declaration of love from Andres, who she considers her BFF, and she turns him down.  Brigitte, Natalia's younger sister is jealous of Natalia's crown and hints that Natalia doesn't deserve it, for not being a "real" Garcia (apparently the Garcia women have a lock on the Queenship).

Out on the beach, we meet the twins and find that one, Rodrigo, is athletic and the other, Diego, is a drunk.  His buds leave him in a boat naked and blackened with soot(?) since they can't wake him out of a drunken stupor.  He meets Natalia when he finally wakes up and, of course, she thinks he's a perv, but she agrees to find him some clothes.  When he hears that she's the Queen, he insists on meeting her later to help decorate the stage.

The Garcias assemble for a goodbye dinner for Padre Juancho.  He's an old friend of the family with a story about each of the kids doing something cutesy but naughty when they were young.  Eleazar is another "old friend" of Natalia's mom, Carmen, and his mom is Carmen's godmother.  Carmen tries, in vain, to get him to stay for some dinner leftovers, but he can't get out of there fast enough.  Later, he tells his mom that he dislikes that Carmen has had four children with four different fathers.  He wants his mom to move into an apartment with him in the DF and gets pissed when she turns him down.

Brigitte, the little troublemaker, sends Andres down to the square (by telling him not to go) so he'll run into Natalia and her new sweetheart.  Also in the square tonight is Rodrigo, who sees the lovebirds kissing after Natalia falls off a ladder and onto Diego's lips.  Andres finds them after she and Diego have relocated to a more romantic-looking kissing spot near the water and he's about as happy about seeing that as you'd expect him to be.  Natalia and Diego both seem to be falling equally hard for each other, if their giddy giggles and huge grins are any indication.

Andres, after getting good and drunk, brings a bottle and a boombox over to Natalia's to give her a serenata.  John Cusack, he's not.  And also, he can't sing.  She has to turn him down yet again, an unpleasant task made easier when he reminds her that guys who aren't from around here are the reason her mom got knocked up four times.  When Natalia comes in and asks her mom, "How do you know when you're in love?" Carmen realizes that Natalia's head over heels and is happy for her.

Here I pause to point out that Mr. 5ft is already sick of the "amor, amor, amor" theme and would like them to find a song with more words.

Rodrigo has shared the news about Diego's new squeeze with their two buds.  He wants to switch places like they used to do when they were younger, but Diego refuses.  Rodrigo sneaks out while Diego is in the shower, and goes to meet Natalia, who is eager to snog "Diego" some more.

Tomorrow, Rodrigo meets his messy end.

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