New Years Festivities

January 1st, 2007 Piura, Peru

New Year´s Day

We pretty much didn´t do anything day. Pretty much just watched some football and played cards and used the pool in the neighboring hotel. They let us use the pool if we buy a $1 lemonade. It’s a pretty good deal.

December 31st, 2006 Piura, Peru

New Year´s Eve

We had planned on going to the beach for New Year´s Eve but it turned out everyone in Piura had the same day. Apparently you need reservations like 3 weeks in advance and all the prices pretty much triple. So instead we decided to just hang out in Piura. It was pretty fun. Some of the volunteers from Lambeyacue came up and together with the volunteers from Piura we rolled about 15 deep. We didn´t get into the club until about 10 minutes til midnight only to find out there was no countdown. That makes two years in a row I have missed it. But we didn´t let this get us down and proceeded to have our own countdown for each time zone we are originally from in the States.

And then the dancing began. I danced mostly with some volunteer friends and then with a Peruvian friend of ours until around 4am. I thought I was done at this time and was about to lean against a wall for a short break, when out of nowhere a beautiful Peruvian girl comes out of nowhere and asks me to twirl her around like I was doing with Ottilia. Of course I couldn´t decline. My friend Ryan noticed some of her friends snapping photos and corralled Steve into dancing with her friends. Finally at 6am and after numbers had been exchanged we left the club. We headed to a little burger joint and then sat in the plaza to watch the sunrise. At 7am we retired to the hostel for a comfortable 2 hours sleep. For one of the worst Christmas day celebrations I have ever experienced, this was one of the better New Years Eves.