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1/01/06 - San Miguel de Allende, MX (Photos) After a week of music and shopping, we rang in the new year, and yes, we even stayed up past midnight! |
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Happy New Year everyone! San Miguel turned out to be a great place to ring in 2006, with a great dinner and a band and fireworks in the Jardin. Our friend Wendy and her Chilean boyfriend Eddie hosted us for dinner at Wendy's apartment, where we had a superb meal of salmon, mixed vegetables (they actually know how to make them taste good here) and rice. We brought the wine, some of the best we've had in Mexico at a price of about $4 per bottle. After an important discussion comparing the English and (amusing) Spanish names of what seemed like every Looney Tunes character in existence, we walked down to the Jardin for the fireworks show and to enjoy the live band playing there.
While we waited in the heat of the crowd for the fireworks to begin, everybody (except us) had big, two-foot-long sparklers that they were holding in the air and the atmosphere was lively. At midnight (ok, they were a couple minutes late, but this is Mexico, after all), the fireworks began exploding directly above our heads. We could see the guys setting of the fireworks about 100 feet away from us. It was all very casual (so very Mexican), but the display was fantastic. We had to tip our heads back all the way in order to see the traditional fireworks exploding over us. There was also a large "waterfall" of sparks off to the side that was so mesmerizing that we failed to get a photo. The fireworks that spelled out "ADIOS 2005" and "FELIZ 2006" were pretty cool too. All the smoke from being so close to the explosion of fireworks only added to the excitement.
After the dazzling midnight display, we made our way over to the dance floor area, where a popular Mexican band was playing Latin music. We danced until about 1:00, when we decided to call it a night and walked home the 4 blocks up the hill to our apartment. All in all, this was one of the best New Year's Eve's in the history of Scott and Caroline (LeAndra and Dylan, your NYE blow-out a few years ago still holds the record!).
Earlier in the week, we had the pleasure of attending two excellent concert/shows: on Christmas Day, we went to a free chamber music concert at an intimate, old theater here in town and on Friday we enjoyed a spectacular Flamenco show, in which our friend Eddie performed, playing drums. It was truly amazing and, with the exception of the dancers' costumes, we both agreed that it put the show we saw in Seville, Spain to shame!
In between all these musical performances, we've been busy shopping for wonderful handicrafts with which to decorate our PV condo (the San Miguel condo will come later), in preparation for our trip there later this week. Caroline is having a blast, but she's not so sure about Scott! |
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