Feliz Navidad

Christmas 2006 was spent in the beautiful suburb of Buenos Aires called San Isidro. Our friend Ezequiel invited us over to his sister's house (which he was house-sitting) to lounge around the pool and to have Christmas dinner with. It was great to get out of the city and to learn how Christmas is celebrate in Argentina. Here's a quick rundown of the holiday:

1) The whole family gets together and tons of food is eaten.

2) At midnight, there's a champagne toast and the kids open their presents.

3) After midnight, it's party time! The celebration lasts until dawn.

4) Fireworks, Fireworks, Fireworks. The city turns into a War Zone!

For dinner, we fired up the parilla, the Argentinean bbq, and grilled a few beautiful steaks. We drank copious amounts of fantastic red wine and enjoyed a mid-summer meal in the backyard. Not a bad way to celebrate Christmas!


"Ever-lasting" Christmas Trees are so much better for the environment than real ones.


Zeque firing up the parilla.


Gavin with a bottle of bubbly and the pan dulce.

Feliz Navidad

Feliz Año Nuevo!

Gav and I rung in the New Year with the help of 40 of our new friends that we met here in Buenos Aires. The crowd was made up by people from the Spanish Language School that we've been attending plus a few other friends. We had no idea how many people were going to come, but let's just say that the First Annual Gavin & Keau New Year's Toast and Pre-Funk Extravaganza was a huge success!

All of the guests had a great time and even I managed to enjoy myself until I gave the green light for the confetti to come out. What a mistake! It took us 3 hours of cleaning the next day to get the apartment back into shape. Next year, we're either going to hire someone to clean or someone else is hosting the party. :)


Americans, Aussies, Germans, Hungarians, Brazilians, Argentineans and more!


F@ck! What a mess!

New Years BsAs