Last Saturday we had our huasipichai, the Quechuan word for house-warming party. We did have one in December, but that was before ewe had any furniture, so it was time to have a proper one, now that we have an actual home and just not an apartment.
Unfortunately not so many as we had hoped showed up from the offs, but the guests we had were awesome. One ended up in the kitchen, making sure every cup had whiskey in it. Occasionally people chanted “fondo, fondo, fondo” (bottom up) and as a result everybody was pretty drunk. Of course people put on salsa and danced, I have so far not been to a house party where this haven’t happened. But then The Macarena came on and that was new and I honestly never EVER thought I’d dance to that again. But what do you know, I apparently have no dignity when I’m drunk.
Unfortunately, one of the guests decided to drive home. I found out about it on the Monday and I feel so shitty about it. I know, it is another culture here, and one beer or two doesn’t mean you can not drive. But we had been drinking whiskey, neat, and he was drunk enough so another guest tried to take his keys, but without success. Even tough I had no idea, I do feel responsible. I have decided that for the next parties, if people drive, the will have to hand over the car keys when they arrive. Hopefully I’ll be able to stand by this decision when it matters. It’ll be hard, but I think it’ll be easier to grab the keys when people are still sober than to argue with them when they’re drunk.

Good things: We got some pictures up on the walls! Me and Ola are -really- shitty when it comes to that, and it took years before we got up our wedding pictures on the wall. But now some frames are up! Including our wedding pictures. However, we still haven’t got our coffee table, but Leslie says we can go and get it on Monday. And we finally went to the plays Diana recommended for bean bags, at Av. Amazonas/Rio Coca! I am hoping for bean bags with floral pattern and humming birds! And I have to friends who said they’ll help us (me) to get up a which I’m stupidly excited about.