Many of the fancy restaurants and hotels have "special" dinners which are pretty formal and very expensive.
I went to the grocery store this afternoon to make sure we had enough food to get through the holiday tomorrow - it was a madhouse. Many shelves were bare - not a grape (fresh, with or without seeds, or canned) to be found. Luckily, we were not planning to head into the crowd at Plaza Nueva anyway, so we didn't really feel like we needed the grapes.
At around 9:30, I headed out to check out the streets. As advertised, almost everything was closed and people were scarce.
There were a few restaurants taking walk-up guests - and they had long lines.
I headed back in, and like true locals, we spent the evening together as a family. We watched a few shows together and played dominoes - and ate enough that we definitely did not miss the grapes.
At a l11:40, we headed out to our bridge. It was no Plaza Nueva, but there were a decent number of people out popping grapes and champagne bottles and noise makers.
There were fireworks starting to go off all over the city at midnight, so we headed back to the apartment and up to the roof to get a view. There was no single big show, but there were fireworks in every direction and some even straight overhead.
It is now just after 1 am here...and I want to wish all of you the very best new year.
