This New Year

2011 arrived with the usual noise that accompanies the holidays here in Uruguay; loads of fireworks. We fired off our share after a fairly smooth performance at the parrilla by yours truly. Standard operating procedure: chorizo, home made flat bread, melted provolone and pork ribs, yeah!

Our flat bread is like Pita, made on a pizza stone over the fire.

 The kids had two close friends over for the night. They are also brothers of around the same ages. They kept it lively until around 4:00 to the best of my recollection.

 Most of our group was away at the beach or in Punta del Este already, so it was just us, the kids and Amalia who held up nicely even at 88.

The real party crowd; Vincent, Santiago, Nicolas and Luca kept things interesting.

Our friend Virginia stopped over with her son later on, so there was yet another round of explosions. No one seemed to mind, the city was lit up and loud all night long.
Another year in the books. No complaints here.
Thanks for reading.

Twelve

Luca turned 12, Friday, Sept. 18th 2009. We are so proud of him.
We had to postpone his party planned for that evening due to weather. We'll have a soccer field for the boys (no girls this year) and a parrilla for everyone else on October 2nd.
We had a cake and went out for dinner for a mini celebration. All good.
See 'ya.