My Holidays

Hello everyone, I hope you had the best holidays. I know I did. I spent the holidays at home in Austin with my parents and a brief visit from my brother, his wife and my baby nephew. It was great because I got to share with all of them a little bit of my day to day life, something that due to distance we don’t get to experience from each other. Small details like my mom liking toast with sour cream and apple juice like three or four times a day, my dad liking super sweet coffee, my brother being a responsible parent, my sister in law loving to bake, but doesn’t like to eat what she makes and the baby liking the bouncy game I played with him. It was all great.

We spent Christmas Eve cooking. I had invited some friend over for dinner and the Puerto Rican Christmas experience. That meant cooking a lot of the typical dishes you would find during the season; Arroz con Gandules, Pernil, Papas Majadas, Pasteles, Guineitos en Escabeche, Zorullitos, Coquito, etc. There were a couple of popular extras like Rum Cake and good Cuba Libres. The night developed into some singing and poetry recital performances. I would like to thank, Andres and Oliver for their performances. We had a great time.

Santa Clause was nice to this year too… I was expecting coal, but instead I got some nice items I’ve been wanting for a while.

New Years, was a bit tone down. My mom wanted to go to San Antonio for New Years Eve, so we did. We went sightseeing at the Alamo and River Walk. They had a blast. Later that night after eating a big Tex-Mex meal we drove back to Austin, but by the time that midnight rolled around we were all super tired. I promised Vanessa that next years we will party the new year up.