I'll start with Christmas Eve -
All day long yesterday that fine mist called the Bajareque kept falling. I love opening one of those huge windows we have in the front - glass, screen and all - and sticking my head out and just watching the mist pass by. It's interesting, yesterday there were times when the mist was moving across the valley in the distance from west to east, yet closer to the house, it looked like the mist was gliding by from east to west. It looked neat!! Then, we watched as one of them slowly changed directions, and they both started flowing the same direction.
In the early evening, we got ready to go out for a Christmas Eve dinner. We had checked with several restaurants in town, compared their prices and menus and made a reservation at one called "The Rock". At around 5:45, we started walking downtown and too BAD we didn't take our camera with us. We should have thought it was a possibility because usually when there's that fine mist, and the sun is out, there has to be a rainbow somewhere. As we rounded a corner in the valley on our walk into town, we saw the most beautiful rainbow over the mountains. Finally, we see a rainbow here, which we hear is a very common occurrence. It's just that we never go out and LOOK for them! But yesterday we WERE out, and the sight was just beautiful.
Once in town, we caught a taxi to get the rest of the way to the restaurant. We made a good choice to eat at The Rock for our Christmas Eve dinner. It was buffet style, and we had, among other things, salmon bites, shrimp cocktail, turkey, ham, Corvina on a stick, rice, noodles and dessert. After dinner we sat by the fire and talked with some people we had run into before, but before we knew it our taxi was there to take us back into town. And still the fine mist was falling! We stopped in a little grocery to pick up a newspaper, and like everywhere else, the place was full of last minute shoppers!
Back home, we watched "It's a Wonderful Life" on TV (believe it or not - for the first time). The power went out again in the whole area, and we stuck our heads out the window to look at the totally dark valley. At midnight a whole lot of fireworks went off. The sound of the fireworks ricocheting off the mountains was quite different! It was pretty impressive!!!
Today - Christmas Day
Guillermo and I exchanged our present to each other - I was glad to get a nice windbreaker from him, and he was glad to get a new set of headphones for computer phone calls. Then we made a few phone calls (at first it looked like Guillermo's new headphones didn't work but eventually they did) and later talked with both Rebeca and Fernando. :-) For lunch we decided, since it was Christmas Day, to walk to the little restaurant close by and we had a good lunch out by the stream. All in all, a very nice Christmas Day!
No comments:
Post a Comment