Fiestassss patriass

My Fiestas Patrias are usually very simple ones. Generally my family met with two other families, the Reyes Duran and the Núñez. We do a little family "fonda" in my house the 18 of september, anyone able to invite whoever they want. There is a lot of food since everybody buy or prepare something to bring, not only empanadas but salads, all kind of meats, cakes, icecream, and obviously "chicha" and "terremoto".
The "Cueca" is danced only when the radio plays it and there is avalaible drunk or high people who wanna make the fool of themselves. Is not that we are bad dancers or don't wanna dance, is just that it isn't a tradition for us and we prefer to dance cumbia or whatever is playing the radio.
The other days we go fonda to fonda searching for good music to hear. Every year we listen to Los Jaivas, Manuel García, Los Tres, Congreso, Inti Illimani, and a long etc.
Another thing we love to do is play or "raise" the volantin, a paper made comet. Regrettably we don't usually do it because we don't have a lot of time to go to a place where we can buy them for a cheap price.
Nevertheless I personally spent these Fiestas Patrias half on the beach half on Santiago, but I could done all I wanted to do. I went to Loncura to see my grandparents the weekend before the 18, we ate untill our belly button went out and walk along the beach for hours and hours.