Mother's day took place on May 10 in El Salvador and is a highly celebrated holiday, on par with, say, Independence Day... all businesses close, for example, and while out running at 6:30am, I was offered a beer. In the US a Mother's Day champagne brunch is fairly normal but it's hardly a holiday based around drinking. Maybe it's just the company I keep, but Mother's Day El Salvador consisted of killing a chicken, making soup, then drinking beer and watching Spanish soccer. How unexpected this country can be.