The document describes how the author spent Christmas Day and New Year's Eve in Cuenca. For Christmas Day, the author had dinner with their extended family, where they enjoyed a large meal together in a dining room decorated for Christmas. After dinner, they opened gifts and spent time talking and watching others open their presents. For New Year's Eve, the author again spent it in Cuenca, having dinner which was less elaborate than Christmas, and afterwards sometimes singing carols. At midnight when eating grapes to welcome the new year, they would listen for the bells ringing and then celebrate at an uncle's house.