It was a fiesta around Boulder Creek Saturday afternoon.

The annual Boulder Taco Fest came back to the Boulder Civic Area Saturday afternoon, hosting a variety of events in the shadow of the Boulder Public library.

Dozens of vendors, many of them selling a variety of Mexican foods, catered to hundreds of attendees standing in line on the library parking lot asphalt as the smell of grilled meat filled the air underneath partly cloudy skies. Children were running up and down an inflatable slide; others were listening to the live music produced by a live onstage DJ.

But while the food was certainly a draw, the focal point of the event was on the other side of the creek. There, a ring played host to what many spectators dubbed the main event of the afternoon: Lucha Libre wrestling.

“I lost my voice, I was yelling so loud,” said Dalton Johnson. “It was so fun.”

The match was the first of four running every hour Saturday afternoon, which also featured different live music artists and two pinatas. The event had begun earlier Saturday morning with a 5K run.

Both Johnson and Emily Wildenhaus participated in the run Saturday morning. Having just moved from Kansas City to Denver, they heard about the event from their neighbor in Denver.

Saturday’s annual festival featured over a dozen taco vendors, ranging from small businesses to local and national chains, according to the fest’s website. A handful of craft breweries and cocktail bars also had tents at the event, with some giving out samples of their spirits to of age attendees.

But the wrestling remains the the event that keeps bringing people back. 

“There’s not wrestling like this anywhere else really,” said Erin Falcon, dressed in a taco-themed outfit alongside her partner, Chad. “The wrestling’s really why we come. (The tacos) are a plus, they go together.”

Having come to the festival every year for the past five years, the two wore taco-themed outfits that caught the eye of other attendees, some of whom paused and asked for photos with the pair.

Erin wore long black leggings patterned with taco icons and a shirt with a logo reading “Taco World Order,” an emblem she designed herself, she said. Chad worse a yellow Hawaiian shirt emblazoned with Lucha Libre masks and carried a black flag with the same logo. Both also wore Libre masks.