Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Bringing in the New Year with a BANG!


Of course we stayed up until midnight . . . who could sleep with all this noise, anyway? The kids went out to see the burning of the muñeco, which is a scarecrow-like effigy of the old year. Sorry the pictures aren't better - it's dark at midnight, you know.

The muñeco is the tall one with the scarf.
The kids went out around 11:30, so that they could be certain to get a picture of the muñeco before it was lit. Chris said they poured on some sort of accelerant, and the thing went up with a whoosh! It was packed with firecrackers, so it was burning and flashing and noisy!

If you look closely, you can see the "T" shaped brace which had been holding up the figure.


Happy New Year! May God bring you many blessings in 2008!

1 comment:

Suzanne said...

Trish - It's so cool to see how people celebrate around the world. It looks like you had a great time.