For Christmas dinner we drove up to Little
Ferry, New Jersey to Jen's Aunt Neri's (pronounced Nettie)
house.
Here's Jen's mom and uncle Mike having a friendly little
talk about politics. Unfortunately Jen's grandma was
sick with the flu and could not host, so the dinner was
moved to Neri's house at the last minute. Despite the
late
notice, Neri came through with some delicious paella (rice, sausage,
shrimp, chicken and clam dish) and
lasagna.
Grandmas pasteles were dearly missed. Pasteles are
too complicated to describe, but are really
really tasty.
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Here's the hostess Neri, the
infamous Jimmy "The Instigator" and myself.
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Once the political conversation was over
the rest of the family came back to the table.
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On the left
is Tom, Sarah's (Jen's
cousin) new boyfriend. This was our
first
introduction to him.
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Here's Sarah on the
left, Jen,
Jen's cousin Cassandra, and Neri (Cassandra's Mom).
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Here's Sarah and Nicki
(another of Jen's cousins). Nicki's brother James eluded the
camera this
evening.
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Cassandra's boyfriend's
parants came over for dessert. This is her boyfriend's Mom, Aida.
They just got a new
puppy named JJ. JJ is on the right while Cassandras
dog Brownie is in
the middle.
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Tom was telling us how
excited he was to see all the diapers at Costco. I think the
exact quote was "I could poop
forever."
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Here's
Neri
and Jimmy.
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Jen's Mom giving her
best Miss America
impression.
Hey there!
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Jen
and her
Mother.
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Jen and myself.
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The drink of choice is
usually wine. For some reason this evening led us to vodka with
OJ and Grand Marnier - aka
high class screw drivers, though
I assure you there was very little class left by
the end of
the night.
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The old one for the
road trick. No I was not driving.
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So Jimmy convinced me to have 3
or 4 more for
the road.
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I think I probably had enough for
the whole week of
road trips.
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And
that concludes another wonderful night of mayhem at Neri's.
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