It turns out that May 1st is Labor Day for almost every country in the world except the US. To us, it's simply May Day where we might have some spring festivities but otherwise - nothing. Restaurants were closed in Mexico, businesses were closed overseas, it was acutally an easy work day since the rest of the world was off. Today everything is back to normal and I'm happy to be working in LA. No corrupt police who are going to peg you as a tourista here!