New Years Eve and Day

Happy New Years everybody.  Now that we have that out of the way, last night we attended a New Years Party at one of the church members place.  They had cooked up a pig for the event, and had lots of Coca Cola and cheese rice on hand to go with it.  They also had a little dance floor setup for anyone so inclined.  Everyone arrived promptly an hour or so late as is the custom, but we had a good crowd as midnight approached.  One of the guests is a Bolivian singer/rapper named Matamba who was kind enough to take a picture with us.

We all were given the usual goofy new years hats and had a great time.  There was of course the usual Bolivian fireworks war that went off at midnight as expected and lasted well into the wee hours of the morning.

Today we grabbed a bunch of chicken meals, some lawn chairs and some sunscreen and piled into the truck with Ken's boys and headed to the river to have lunch, play soccer and splash around a bit in the water to stay cool.  Thanks to Kevin Holness for donating a large amount of soccer balls that we have donated to needy kids all over the city as we drove through the neighborhoods over the last few weeks. I am sure the balls will all be put to good use until they can't be taped together any longer.

Lukas and I joined in the soccer game while the kids splashed in the river and Melody read a book in the sun.  We were as expected somewhat outclassed by our teammates and competition, but we did manage to put a couple of goals in as well.  I did note that they call a lot of fouls that we would not bat an eye at and we could have used some of the magic spray on a few rolling on the ground embellishments as well.

The rest of the day was spent trying to get the sand out of Logan and Jordan's hair following the sand fight in the river with Ivan.  Thanks for that Ivan....

P.S.  We did go to buy new glasses the other day when we had a few minutes to kill.  They will be ready on Saturday.  While we were doing so, the kids noted that they had a rather unusual pair of sunglasses and just had to try them on.  Logan has been begging me to put the pictures of them on here so....