I apologise for the delay in this update to life here at Abode. The festivities of Christmas and New Year took their toll and gave us even less free time than usual. We held our annual christmas party on the 19th of December with a great mix of guests, expats and lots of neighbours and friends. Of course everyone ate, drank and slowly became very merry making it perfect for our carol singing. After spending a couple of hours earlier in the day concocting a hymn sheet half in Spanish and half in English so that everyone could join in the singing it slowly became revealed that Argentines don’t sing carols and definately don’t sing things like O’ Little Town of Bethlehem in Spanish! As a result, and much to the hysterical laughter of our Argentine friends, 15 or so Brits, Irish and Americans ended up singing ‘Pueblicito de Belen’ in Spanish and a few more numbers to boot.
We were granted a brilliant present from Father Christmas this year which is the news that we are expecting a new addition to the Deadman family. We don’t know if it is a boy or a girl, and we are planning on keeping it that way, but he or she will be born at the end of June 2010. Any visitors to Abode in the coming months will see me balloning but hopefully glowing too.
New Year was celebrated with a Parrilla BBQ that we cooked for guests here at Abode. David bought plenty of fireworks and bangers so that we made sure we weren’t outdone by the neighbours on that score. Here in Buenos Aires the Bang is much more important than the fancy colours and spectacle. I’m not sure it is possible for anyone to get a good nights sleep in the the city on the 31st as celebrations go on well into the morning the next day and the bangers still seem to be going of now 12 days later. Maybe there are cheap deals on end of line stock.
Happy New Year to all of our guests old and New and we hope you have as good a new year as we are planning on having. If any of you have plans to come and see us this year then we look forward to seeing you and if not then please send your friends.
Love Zoe, David, Syri and Monty xx
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