New Year's Traditions

The past week I write about Christmas traditions, this week I want to share some of our new year's activities. Which one of these you share?

In Mexico there are a lot of different activities we do as a tradition on our New Year's Eve celebration, some of them it's really fun to do in group, so seize this day to have some good time with your friends.

Tradition 1: Colorful underwear, you can use it red or yellow.... or whatever color you like. Some of them represent love (red), the yellow one means money. If you buy some and take them to the party you can have a really fun time with your friends taking some pictures with this underwear placed on top of your clothes. 

Tradition 2: Eat 12 grapes with the bells, this activity can be related to the next tradition that is to make some purposes. Each grape represents one purpose you have to finish at the end of the year. The funny thing here is try to eat each grape with each bell, because on the general no one can eat and finish it's grapes, the same as the purposes, we start with a lot of intentions but not finishing the purposes.

Tradition 3: Make some new year's purposes. Some of them usually include loose some weight, stop smoking, making some exercise. In my case I have make promises of all of them, some are really easy to finish, and my recommendation is to make a commitment on a few of them and finish them. One useful tip on this is to share your purposes with your friends, and this way you will be more committed to finish them.

Tradition 4: Make a toast. Take advantage of the party and be thankful to the things that happened on the past year, remember your family and friends, your trips, and also be thankful of your friends.

Tradition 6: Take out your luggage. The theory says that you should walk around the block if you want to have a pleasure trip on the year. If you want to make it VIP you have to introduce some money inside the suitcase. The fun thing here is to take the walk with your red or yellow underwear on top and having lots of fun with your friends. Yo have to be a little brave to do this activity.

Tradition 6: Fireworks. In Mexico all the social networks are trying to stop this activity because the pets have a bad time with this cracking sounds. Even though there are a lot of houses that throw fireworks and have fun with the younger ones.

I hope you have a very fun time with your family and friends. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015.