I just got back from an all-day Chilean family party in Santiago. We went to welcome my host mom´s son who they haven´t seen for 4 years, and has come to visit for 10 days. We left Viña at 6am, and waited for her son at the airport. Everyone was super excited!
We had breakfast with the extended family at Nona and Tata´s (Grandma and Grandpa´s) house in Santiago around 9am. This consisted of sopaipillas, and bread-and-palta (avocado)-and-meat sandwiches with tea or coffee.
Then the group split up for a couple hours. I went with mamá, papá, y Romii to a special district in Santiago where all the stores have to do with fabric and sewing. It was the most fabric I´ve ever seen at once!
Lunch was around 1:30 - 2:00pm, and had drinks and appetizers plus 4 courses. (When Chileans party, they like to savor the moment and draw things out for as long as possible.) The main course was a pasta with homemade noodles and sauce by Tata - super delicious... a recipe that has been handed down in the family for over 100 years! Tata showed me all the ingredients, but unfortunately I didn´t write them all down. I really appreciated Tata and Nona... they were very kind to me and easy to converse with - unlike some of the other family members who talk super fast and all at once.
We sat around and talked until "onces" at 7:30pm or so (which is like a repetition of breakfast that Chileans have instead of dinner). Instead of sopaipillas we ate empanadas, which were superrico!
The party ended around 8:30.
