New Year celebration

Since it was just Bucky and me, we didn't make big plans to celebrate New Years Eve. I made chicken curry for dinner and we enjoyed some cava which is Spain's equivalent of champagne! We did some research to find out if there were any Spanish traditions that we needed to embrace and we discovered that eat 12 grapes at midnight. Basically, you eat a grape for each stroke of midnight and then you will have a good year! Packages of 12 grapes are sold at the local grocery stores or you can just buy a big hunk of grapes and eat 12. Bucky set out on New Years Eve day to buy our grapes so we got slim pickings, but we did get one pre-made bag and a few other random grapes so that we each had twelve!

We turned on the TV for the countdown and did the grape eating with the folks on the TV. I was successful in eating all twelve grapes while the clock tolled, but Bucky was challenged. I assured him that I would share my good fortune for the year with him and give him pointers for how to be successful eating the twelve grapes next year. Happy 2018!!

Happy New Year!! Looks like India may want to try them!!