Coca-Cola sponsered the decorations in this plaza in Santiago. Who said Chirstmas isn´t a commercial holiday...
About a week before Christmas, the girls at the hogar (home) where I volunteer had a pagent for all their families
I went early to help them get ready
First they did a couple dance routines
And, of course, the nativity was included
I celebrated Christmas twice (instead of three times as usual =) Lisi celebrates on the 24th, so we went out to breakfast and then started drinking wine at about 4. Later I made my Aunt Shezhe´s famous salmon recipe and everyone loved it. Another friend came over after dinner and we had a chat and more wine until Lisi demanded that I give her her present. I made stockings for her and René and filled them with snacks, booze, and the staples--batteries and underware =) She gave me Spanish Scrabble and René gave me an international cookbook series I´d really wanted in Buenos Aires. He even said that he´d mail it home for me if I didn´t want to travel with it.
Christmas Day René and I went to the beach, even though it wasn´t sunny for most of the day. Had a nice walk around the town--a surprising amount of stuff was open--then back home for a delicious creamy pasta sauce with chicken and mushrooms. My family was finally able to call around 2am and I was so happy to talk with everyone that we didn´t get off the phone until around 3:30!
All my lovely presents...
And René with his
Even though it was cloudy, we still had to go to the beach
It finally got sunny around 7:30pm
1 comment:
Great pictures! I love to see your smiling face. The little girls are so cute. We miss you! Have fun
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