Ola Lola's decorated for Christmas. This is our Christmas tree this year. Elaine and I lashed it together out of bamboo and the centers of coconut palm fronds. The tree is outlined with green rope lights and has little white bulbs criss-crossing it and in the star. It really is pretty and has gotten rave reviews. Somebody even offered to buy it!
You can get real trees down here. Cut fir trees from OREGON (did you hear that Michigan?) were about $60 each at Sam's Club. We saw cars driving up the highway with two bound Christmas trees on top, sometimes sharing the roof rack with surfboards.
Ola Lola's Christmas party. We had the party on December 22 this year.
Most of our "regulars" were here, at least the ones who weren't "off the rock" for the holidays. It was a more laid back party than the September birthday or Halloween parties, but that was good, appropriate to the season.
A few transplanted northerners admitted to missing snow on Christmas. I may someday but this wasn't the day.
We closed on Monday, Christmas Eve so we could be with friends and our extended Puerto Rican family. We spent a great evening with Marisol and her family and a bunch of friends, eating WAY too much great food and probably drinking too much. I don't remember - I wasn't driving.
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