Last year, our maid Nidia, invited us to spend our last Christmas Eve of 2011 with them in their house to see what a Colombian Christmas Eve was like. For one year, we eager awaited this special invitation. The tradition in Bogota is to eat the soup Ajiaco with rice and avacado on the side. This is a yummy chicken-potatoe soup. We had the our best Christmas Eve that we have had in Colombia with Nidia and her family. We will miss them. Ajiaco is the food we will miss the most from Colombia. The tradition is to eat Ajiaco, then they wait until midnight to open their gifts, and then the fireworks begin. It sounded like the 4th of July in the US. Nidia passed out their gifts one at a time, and the family would all clap, and then after the gift was opened everyone cheered like they had just won an academy award. What a special night.
