{"id":3984,"date":"2016-01-02T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:12:03","slug":"christmas-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"Christmas &#038; New Year celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas everyone. At Nana Juana marina in Guatemala we had a great group of people to enjoy Christmas eve and Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>On December 24th we enjoyed drinks and finger food with the sun setting and fireworks going off. Guatemalans celebrate Christmas on Xmas Eve and fireworks light up the skies when the sun sets through into the wee hour of the morning. We also had a gift exchange where a gift could be taken from someone else up to a maximum of 3 times. Lots of fun as you can imagine with some very imaginative gifts; the live chicken for one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3986\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3986\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100110.jpg\" alt=\"Our fireplace designed by Wendy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100110.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100110-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100110-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our fireplace designed by Wendy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wendy &amp; Ken organizers of the gift exchange &amp; Don with his new gift after his original was stolen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3987\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100112.jpg\" alt=\"P1100112\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100112.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100112-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100112-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Day we had a big feast with 47 cruisers and had a great day which started early (6am) by getting the spit ready for our 30lb lamb and continued through to sitting around a fire at night telling stories and singing carols.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3988\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3988\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3988\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100116.jpg\" alt=\" Finn, a kiwi delivering our lamb to the cooking area\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100116.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100116-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100116-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finn, a kiwi delivering our lamb to the cooking area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had lots of helpers starting at 6am<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3989\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3989\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3989\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100120.jpg\" alt=\"Girls Prepping lamb for going on the spit\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100120.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100120-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100120-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girls Prepping lamb for going on the spit<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3990\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3990\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3990\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3990\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100127.jpg\" alt=\"Brett &amp; Brian setting up a system to rotate the lamb on the spit\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100127.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100127-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100127-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett &amp; Brian setting up a system to rotate the lamb on the spit after building the fire<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3991\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3991\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100133.jpg\" alt=\"Lamb nearly ready and looking Tasty!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100133.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100133-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100133-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lamb nearly ready and looking Tasty!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Belinda had competition for eating the bones of the lamb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3994\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1100145\" width=\"242\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3995\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100146-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1100146\" width=\"240\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of food to eat&#8230;thanks to everyone bringing dishes to contribute to our amazing dinner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3992\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3992\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3992\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3992\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100141.jpg\" alt=\"Dave the carver &amp; Chef Pat who cooked the turkey\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100141.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100141-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave the carver &amp; Chef Pat who cooked the turkey<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3993\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100143.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Wendy who did the ham\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100143.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100143-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Wendy who did the ham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April from Spirit of Argo had cooked a chicken for the feast too, so lots of food.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3996\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=3996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3996\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100147.jpg\" alt=\"The Xmas gang sitting down to eat\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100147.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100147-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Xmas gang of 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4002\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=4002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100149.jpg\" alt=\"The Marina staff joined us for dinner as well\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100149.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100149-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/P1100149-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marina staff joined us for dinner as well; Walter, Edgar, Mario, Marilyn, Riccardo &amp; Juillo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Years celebrations fast approached and Marilyn our Marina Manager organized an event at the restaurant where there was a good mix of cruisers and Guatemalans to enjoy the night.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=4020\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310519.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310519-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310519-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marilyn and David\u00a0salsa danced most of the night for us, which was great to watch. She also organized\u00a0a\u00a0DJ\u00a0so we could all\u00a0dance the night away. Great night, thanks Marilyn!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=4021\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4021 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310522.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310522-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=4031\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-2-e1452284897920.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"640\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elise the owner of the marina\u00a0brought in horns, hats and masks to\u00a0make for a fun night. Don&#8217;t the girls look great!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4022\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?attachment_id=4022\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4022\" class=\"wp-image-4022 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310542.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310542-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PC310542-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me, Sue, Belinda &amp; Anne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy New Years! Safe travels and enjoy 2016. Life&#8217;s what you make of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas everyone. At Nana Juana marina in Guatemala we had a great group of people to enjoy Christmas eve and Christmas day. On December 24th we enjoyed drinks and finger food with the sun setting and fireworks going off. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=3984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[202,199,204],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","tag-christmas","tag-nana-juana","tag-new-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}