We tried to sleep in some and mosey through the morning. We had planned on heading to our friend's house in the village around 9:30 a.m. or so...we left a little later and it still worked out perfect. We stopped by the store and bought some gifts: a BIG bottle of cooking oil, some special snacks, and some soda.
Gabrielle, by the way, slept pretty well through New Year's Eve, and on night two, with still all the fireworks slept from her 10 p.m. feeding all the way to 7:45 a.m. Wow. Not consistent yet, though.
Here she is, meeting our friends...
She is at a great age because she will go to anyone, and is a really happy baby.
But still, she seems to ask: 'who are you again?'
Lots of fireworks going off. See the smoke?
Sparklers...pretty tame. We did let Sophia hold Roman Candles too. She is what we call UN-afraid, which for us is a little scary.
Talking in the kitchen while they prepare the meal.
More and more villagers (in the valley anyway) are getting refrigerators.
Sophia climbed the ladder to the loft where they stored things and wanted to pretend she was Laura Ingalls.
The mom took the kids over to play this game. It is gambling pretty much and she lost her 5 Kuai pretty quick. The kids wanted to keep playing, I had to remind them they were losing real money.
We talked about it a bit and let them have one more go. They left after having doubled their money (after having lost it all to begin with, so really they were doubling their 2nd round of money), less than one U.S. dollar so don't worry!
After a delicious meal we headed home for naps and refreshment. We received a phone call in the midst of this about visiting another family in another village that afternoon. Because it was David's old language teacher and a close friend of our family, we said yes, of course!
