New Year
For New Year’s Eve dinner, Donna baked the turkey and fixed her most delicious ham, the one she boils in a mixture of pineapple juice and brown sugar, then she browns in the oven afterwards. We have our usual apple cider for our toast. But the guys had Red Horse! So sorry, friends at Goodrich, I guess we missed our Holiday lunch of 2006!!
There’s no 4th of July celebration here like the States. People light firecrackers on New Year’s Eve instead as a way of celebrating and ‘making noise’. I remember back in the days, I used to drive a motorcycle around the neighborhood with all kinds of cans, pots and pans tied behind me. Anyway...
There’s no 4th of July celebration here like the States. People light firecrackers on New Year’s Eve instead as a way of celebrating and ‘making noise’. I remember back in the days, I used to drive a motorcycle around the neighborhood with all kinds of cans, pots and pans tied behind me. Anyway...
We bought a bunch of sparklers (sorry but we’re sissies when it comes to fireworks, or perhaps ‘cheap’ is a better word?) and some “triangulos” or "labentador". These last ones are our traditional firecrackers over here. Gunpowder, or whatever it is they use for firecrackers, is wrapped up and folded into a triangular piece of paper and then the wick (is that what it's called?) which is installed on one corner, is lit and bang! These were packed in a box of maybe 10 or 15 pcs. Daniel didn’t realize they have to be lit one by one, tried to ignite the whole box and narrowly escaped total disaster!
But courageous Donna, this woman surprises me in more ways than one, started lighting one after another. They’re actually pretty loud.
A couple of months ago, Reggie mentioned that he had to check out a little something in his ‘stuff’ that we shipped from Norwalk. Unbeknownst to us, before he left for Japan he had one of his friends build a firecracker and he hid it with his things. New Year’s Eve, he showed it to us. Check out the picture with it in Reggie's mouth. Now let me tell you about this thing, it’s a freaking mini dynamite! Donna said our household would have been confiscated if it was found in customs! He lit and tossed it across the street towards a vacant lot and we felt more than heard it’s whoosh first, then a really loud boom! It left a nice gouge in the ground.
But we have neighbors here who are not worried about cost like us. One had fireworks that can be compared to the ones in Disneyland. Reggie remarked, “You can tell you have millionaires for neighbors!” So we quit lighting our measly 'labentadors' and just watched the neighbors' fireworks display.
But courageous Donna, this woman surprises me in more ways than one, started lighting one after another. They’re actually pretty loud.
A couple of months ago, Reggie mentioned that he had to check out a little something in his ‘stuff’ that we shipped from Norwalk. Unbeknownst to us, before he left for Japan he had one of his friends build a firecracker and he hid it with his things. New Year’s Eve, he showed it to us. Check out the picture with it in Reggie's mouth. Now let me tell you about this thing, it’s a freaking mini dynamite! Donna said our household would have been confiscated if it was found in customs! He lit and tossed it across the street towards a vacant lot and we felt more than heard it’s whoosh first, then a really loud boom! It left a nice gouge in the ground.
But we have neighbors here who are not worried about cost like us. One had fireworks that can be compared to the ones in Disneyland. Reggie remarked, “You can tell you have millionaires for neighbors!” So we quit lighting our measly 'labentadors' and just watched the neighbors' fireworks display.
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