Happy NewYear! Sunday 1 January 2012
Up at 9:15, we drove to Claire and Bill's to follow behind their friends Miguel and Pilar's car to for the hour plus drive up to Ajfan's barbecue in the country, northwest of Valencia. Lucky us to be included in another get together!
We shared our chorizos (sausages) and a pasta dish, and of course sampled everyone else's yummy contributions. Dian's favorite was Puerto Rican Aleida's yucca dish. Bill, Charles and Dian went with Gary to see his nearby property, a long slice with a great view and lots of potential, and returned about an hour later after hiking nearly to the next town.
When the sun went down we sang some songs, Dian on guitar and vocal leads and Nicole adding lovely harmony. Dian even had the group imitating bagpipes (Frances' Scottish influence -- don't call her, or any Scotsman, Scotch: that's a drink... that the Scots cherish -- got that?) by using their fingers on their noses and mouths, then Frances got everyone in a circle to kick up their heels to "Auld Lang Syne." When the cleanup was finished we followed Ajfan to her beach house in Pobla de Farnals, north of Valencia.
With hasty instructions on the locked carport, washing machine and heaters, our kind benefactress left us since her daughter was moving some things into their new home. It had been a long day and we fell into beds with heavy eyelids but light hearts, thinking about how great 2011 had been and how wonderful 2012 was already proving its young self to be.
Up at 9:15, we drove to Claire and Bill's to follow behind their friends Miguel and Pilar's car to for the hour plus drive up to Ajfan's barbecue in the country, northwest of Valencia. Lucky us to be included in another get together!
We shared our chorizos (sausages) and a pasta dish, and of course sampled everyone else's yummy contributions. Dian's favorite was Puerto Rican Aleida's yucca dish. Bill, Charles and Dian went with Gary to see his nearby property, a long slice with a great view and lots of potential, and returned about an hour later after hiking nearly to the next town.
When the sun went down we sang some songs, Dian on guitar and vocal leads and Nicole adding lovely harmony. Dian even had the group imitating bagpipes (Frances' Scottish influence -- don't call her, or any Scotsman, Scotch: that's a drink... that the Scots cherish -- got that?) by using their fingers on their noses and mouths, then Frances got everyone in a circle to kick up their heels to "Auld Lang Syne." When the cleanup was finished we followed Ajfan to her beach house in Pobla de Farnals, north of Valencia.
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| Rallying the troops to participate in imitating bagpipes with their fingers ON their noses |
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| It worked. |
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