Happy New Year!

Grandsons Bruno and Zair

Lourdes and I spent Christmas with our large family in Lima which was a first for me.  Nothing much happened on Christmas Day itself, all of the activity was on Chrstmas eve with a big meal late in the evening followed by singing up-tempo Christmas songs around the tree, opening presents and at the stroke of midnight the whole sky lit up with fireworks.  Christmas with a Latin flair.
On a whim we decided to head north by bus and we spent New Year's visiting Lago Azul near Tarapoto in the extreme western end of the Amazon basin which makes for a combination of mountains and jungle.  The lake itself was beautiful with an ideal tropical climate and not a bug in sight.  We are thinking of buying land there......



Our grandson Zair appearing as a chicken