MANILVA

Sun 24th Dec -Xmas Eve
We were invited to join the family for their traditional Xmas dinner which was
held in the home of Juan Carlos (Ann and Mano's son and his wife Anna) who
have a baby named Fabio, they have an enormous apartment on two floors and
Anna's brother lives upstairs in another apartment , the inlaws house backs onto
it but stretches through to another street. These houses are amazing, so much
space and a garage underneath large enough to open a supermarket, but is
stored with cars and Anna's brother has a boat and a rifle range in it.
We have spent some pleasant evenings with them already.
Both Mother-In-Laws plus wife's of the sons have been preparing all day for this
wonderful family gathering (16x in all) we all had presents fortunately we were
warned that we were included, so we were able to produce something,
apparantly they put names into a hat and produce a present for each one.
After a truly remarkable dinner we finished off with licqueurs.
Midnight Mass had been cancelled for some reason and held at 8pm but
the previous evening we went to Conceierto De Navidad Banda Y Coro
Municipales De Musica De Manilva which was wonderful and only a stones
throw from their home in the local church..