A Spanish New Year
Happy New Year everyone! first I need to say how sorry I am for being gone for so long. I had been so busy that I'm finally getting time to make another post. I want to talk about celebrating New Years in Spain and how different it is from how we celebrate it in the U.S. Sure there are similarities like staying up until midnight on New Years Eve, but they also do something a little extra. They eat grapes! Twelve Grapes The twelve grapes of luck or las doce uvas de la suerte as they are called in Spanish is a tradition where you eat one grape during the last twelve seconds of the countdown or clock strike to New Years Day. This tradition goes back to the year 1895. It not only represents good luck, but it was also used to ward o...