Annandag annorstädes

I don't want to be a Grinch, constantly complaining about the summer x-mas, so I will try and just tell you what has been going on without much fuss. Christmas eve, after the caroling, we went back to the little house (where we live with Jaime & Feliepe) and started cooking. The night before me and Dylan had been asked to bring some appetizers to the big dinner, so we made baba ganoush and bacon & palmito rolls. Jamie made three different kinds of desserts and Randy made a Spanish tortilla. We were here cooking untill 9:30 or so, dinner was suppose to be at 8 so we were right on (Chilean) time. Then in the big house we had a huge family dinner, there was so much food some dishes were not even touched. It was all delicious, I didn't eat the lamb or turkey of course but there was plenty of other stuff...potatoes, breads, casseroles, cous cous with corn and avocado....we were all stuffed.

Then it was just like new years, a countdown for midnight. 3,2,1...Feliz Navidad!! And everyone got up and walked around the table, face kissing and huging each other. We had tea and coffee with some cookies and chocolates and then moved into the family room and opned our gifts by the tree. It was all very nice and then we went back to our little house to go to bed around 1:30 am or so.

Yesterday the family had a big get together at their other grandpa's house but me and Dylan decided not to intrude and stayed here. Unfortunatly all the delicious leftovers were locked up in the big house so we missed out on that feast....
It was a long and lonely christmas day and I really wished I had been somewhere else. Anyways, next year.
Basically we had a really good christmas but it was really short. Tonight we might be meeting up with Randy and Juri and hopefully do something fun. I wish I was home though, today is the big homecomming night in Umeå and everybody who's home for the hollidays goes out.