We have had an eventful two weeks. First we sent Jared to Missouri to spend the Panamanian Summer (USA Winter) with his Uncle John and Aunt Jenn. He is having a great time there with them. On Christmas Eve Maureen’s dad, Mike, came in to spend Christmas with us and Moe’s mom. The kids had a great Christmas despite being told that the trip to Disney World back in November was going to be their main Christmas present. Everyone got what they wanted. The main addition to the house was Bryce and Jared’s gift of Rock Band 2 for the X-box 360. We are still debating whether or not that was a good present. On Christmas day we had a nice ham dinner. And my dad even made it over and hung out for a couple of hours. We live so far away from most of our family so when we have an opportunity, like this year, to have family around we really enjoy it.
New Years Eve was great. That is the night we hold our Annual New Year Eve party. We had around 40 friends over and Moe made her famous chicken wings. There was a SPICY batch and a not so spicy batch. I took charge of the fireworks purchase this year. Moe usually takes the boys to China town and gets stuff but this year I went with a couple of buddies of mine and the boys and we went down to a street called “Sal si Puedes” which translates to “get out if you can” and went to this Chinto (Chinese merchant) and bought some serious fireworks. We kind of have an ongoing competition with some neighbors that live down the street as to who can put on a better show at mid night. Well we did well for a while but I think we got out done again. We did have some serious firework action going on. You can get some pretty powerful stuff here in Panama. My buddy Dan bought a whole bunch of firecrackers that were about the size as a half a stick of dynamite and probably just as powerful. A couple of the kids said that was the best time they had ever had at a New Years Eve party. Next year will be even better!
New Years Eve was great. That is the night we hold our Annual New Year Eve party. We had around 40 friends over and Moe made her famous chicken wings. There was a SPICY batch and a not so spicy batch. I took charge of the fireworks purchase this year. Moe usually takes the boys to China town and gets stuff but this year I went with a couple of buddies of mine and the boys and we went down to a street called “Sal si Puedes” which translates to “get out if you can” and went to this Chinto (Chinese merchant) and bought some serious fireworks. We kind of have an ongoing competition with some neighbors that live down the street as to who can put on a better show at mid night. Well we did well for a while but I think we got out done again. We did have some serious firework action going on. You can get some pretty powerful stuff here in Panama. My buddy Dan bought a whole bunch of firecrackers that were about the size as a half a stick of dynamite and probably just as powerful. A couple of the kids said that was the best time they had ever had at a New Years Eve party. Next year will be even better!
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