Sid's Travels

Hola! It's now Boxing Day (well, not here but that's just how I will always view December 26th) and we just finished our Christmas day with our Canadian friends. It was great! Silly and relaxing and definitely not anything like Christmas at home (though we all got our phone calls in to Canada!). We started out with a brunch of pizza, next, a Christmas carol sing-along and a shot of some Spanish alcohol for our sweet receptionist at our hotel who had complained earlier that it didn't feel like Christmas (she loved it and we all got kisses - the boys were in heaven), later, a trip to the famous Mirador San Nicholas (an amazing lookout....the whole Bill Clinton thing I think I mentioned earlier in a blog entry), and then a "homemade" dinner on the -1 floor of our hotel (the basement), which the hotel has graciously designed for clients to cook their own food and hang out in. We had a few canned seafood dishes, olives, toast with cheese and tomates and what the boys so charmingly called, "ass in a glass", referring to our awful, cheap white wine that could only be drunk if mixed with orange juice (OJ courtesy of the hotel). We tried to learn a card game after dinner but a case of delirium (tired and happy) took over and I was unable to play due to uncontrollable laughing. Do you ever get that? I couldn't stop if you paid me and it was interfering with the game so I had to give up. I think the giggling problem was a residual effect from a quite hilarious sight we had seen earlier at the lookout involving two dogs (one male, one female....you get the rest) and an unsuspecting owner clueless to the doubled-over spectators taking pictures and videos of her dogs. I felt like a 10 year old boy because again, I could not stop laughing. It just set the tone for the rest of the evening I guess. We did take a few moments to step inside an old church and marvel at its architecture -it looked like it has seen better days but was somehow still standing. Overall, a perfect Christmas in another country.