New Years Eve (our 34th anniversary) we had a great dinner with fabulous wine we brought from Oregon. And corkage was only $5 at a very nice restaurant - yet another bargain here. From the balcony we watched the lighted boats circling around to set up for the fireworks. Then we went home and sat up on the mirador and drank some good Spanish Cava and watched, while the neighbors partied in the streets below - again. The power went out for the 2nd time that night. The first had been a couple of days before. No notice - they just shut it down for 5 hours to do what looked like routine maintenance. On New Years, it came back up at about 9am. I know because everything beeped then and woke us up!
New Years day brought the annual parade which was really fun, and unfortunately we only got phone pics which we can't download. The theme was "Peace in 2012", but mostly it was a bunch of folks dressed up in silly costumes. There were Avatar characters, Smurfs, Mario and friends, and a nod to the Hippie peace movement with a Mexican, a Canadian and an American dressed in 60's wear with their country flags and - you guessed it - acting silly. The redeeming (artistic) factor to all this nonsense was the very excellent use of HUGE paper-mache figures, oversize masks, etc.
Regarding the lizard - he's about 6 inches long, nose to end of tail and every time we try to catch him he runs (very quickly) away from us. Since, we've seen another little one on the patio. He is not scary because he's so small - in fact he's in danger of becoming a pet. I imagine he has been separated from his mother who might be the one inside the casita, and one night he hid under a garden trowel right outside the kitchen window and didn't come out for almost 24 hours. Don't worry, I am not losing it. I still hate the oversized spiders here, and the occasional cockroach I have seen (they were both dead, thank goodness).
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