New Year and New Traditions

I had an absolutely wonderful dinner with friends last night. We were the expats of the restaurant. Wonderful Southern Spanish cuisine, lovely wine, champagne at midnight. Watching fireworks go off in the street, which in turn set off numerous car alarms and probably damaged some car paint jobs...

(We couldn't go dancing because even the milongas were closed last night. Total dead from Thursday is 176, with 600 more injured.)

At midnight, we went to the street to watch the fireworks. The fireworks sounded like being in a war zone. I swear the kids had things like M-80s, and were setting those off in the street by the restaurant.

There was a woman with a bag of confetti. She explained to me that they shred the previous year's calendar, then throw the confetti at midnight. This is to bring yourself good luck for the coming year. She shared her confetti with me, which was very cool of her. (side note: last year was quite tumultuous for me, so good luck for the New Year is quite a welcome gift.)

I really like the idea of this, and I will be doing this in the future.

Happy New Year everyone!