In honor of an epic date (5/5/25) for Cinco de Mayo, here is an epic adventure I had working on a pinata during May almost 25 years ago. We loved making pinatas back then. We would blow up a balloon and cover it in newspaper strips that had been dipped in a flour-water paste. Then, we would let it try, pop the balloon, and decorate it with tissue paper. This time, we were feeling ambitious, so we taped two balloons together to make it duck-shaped, with a smaller balloon as the head and a larger balloon as the body. Then it was time to decorate it. My sister Kaylie and I would hang out in my bedroom at night, alternating between gluing tissue paper on the pinata and applying the glue directly to our fingers and hands. Once the glue was dry, it was so satisfying to pull it off, especially if it came off in one piece. I have always wondered why it took three times as long to decorate this pinata as our normal pinatas, and this is probably why. Then it was time to fill it with candy. There...