{"id":24335,"date":"2017-01-23T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therockysafari.com\/?p=24335"},"modified":"2021-03-27T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T06:24:07","slug":"i-am-the-roscon-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2017\/01\/23\/i-am-the-roscon-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Whose Rosc\u00f3n Had the King Inside!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Discovering that the Three Kings<\/strong>\u00a0(also called the\u00a0Three Wise Men) are even more popular than Santa Clause in Spain was perhaps one of the most shocking things I learned during my visit. Seeing how differently the holiday is celebrated was really fascinating as a foreigner. Rather than giving gifts to one another on Christmas, as I’m accustomed to at home in the U.S., we gave gifts to one another on\u00a0Dia de Los Reyes<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>The holiday is normally celebrated on January 6th but we celebrated it three days early, on January 3rd, to accommodate my tight travel schedule.<\/p>\n On Three Kings Day, it is popular tradition to eat\u00a0Rosc\u00f3n<\/strong>:\u00a0a sweet donut-shaped bread the size of a cake. The top is usually covered in glacier cherries and sweet sugar. To make the treat even MORE exciting, there is a small\u00a0King figurine baked INSIDE of it as well as a hidden bean so you must not eat too quickly! It is said that whoever finds the King gets good luck for the next year and whoever finds the bean pays for the Rosc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While enjoying my slice of the Rosc\u00f3n, I could feel\u00a0myself biting into a plastic bag. Out from my mouth, I pulled out a baggy that contained inside …. the\u00a0dreaded\u00a0bean.<\/strong><\/p>\n JUST KIDDING – I GOT THE KING<\/strong>! I GOT THE\u00a0KINGGG<\/strong>! I WAS THE KING<\/strong>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After putting on my golden paper crown,\u00a0Jorge’s mom\u00a0also found another King<\/strong> in her Rosc\u00f3n. TWO KINGS IN ONE ROSC\u00d3N!? But how!?\u00a0We agreed\u00a0to share our King-hood like good Kings should. The Rosc\u00f3n must have been an exceptionally lucky one to possess not one but two Kings inside. This better mean\u00a02017 is going to\u00a0be a great year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After finishing our early celebration of\u00a0the Three Wise Men, Jorge, his family, and I all set\u00a0off\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0last leg of our\u00a0adventure through Spain. Our final destination was\u00a0Valencia<\/strong>: the third biggest city in all of Spain. We drove around 2 hours away to visit his aunt and uncle\u00a0who had kindly prepared a big lunch for all of us. (An awesome introduction to what turned out to be an\u00a0awesome city.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discovering that the Three Kings\u00a0(also called the\u00a0Three Wise Men) are even more popular than Santa Clause in Spain was perhaps …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5379,5931],"yoast_head":"\n