New Year's Eve

I guess many of you don't know what we do during New Year's Eve in Pamplona. Well, we have this really weird recent tradition of dressing up in costumes. "Spanish are crazy", as a good friend of me would say. So after midnight, the streets of the city get full of romans, human-pencils, human-bananas and the most ridiculous things you can come up with. It's a magic night because you go out there trying to meet people you know to discover what they are wearing that year. And of course, every group of friends usually goes with the same costume, which is great when you get lost. This year, we were human-mops. Yeah, that's right. I know it sounds a bit odd, but it was a complete success. People even recognized we were mops!! You can judge by yourselves with the picture. It was fun and annoying at the same time because we kept hitting things with the stick on our heads and getting stuck in places like the branches of some trees.
See, now you have another idea for your Halloween costumes next year. It's really easy to make (it took us like a couple of hours to finish it) and pretty cheap. I mean, it's true that it's not very elaborated (the yellow stripes on our t-shirt were stapled) but it does look funny, doesn't it?
And speaking about traditions. In Spain we have the tradition of eating a grape with each bell at midnight. When midnight comes, we gather in front of a TV showing a famous clock in Madrid and like every other clock, bells twelve times. Well, so we eat a grape with each of those sounds and at the end just wish Happy New Year to everyone in the room. Try it!