Bicentenary holidays

The national holidays of this year are supposed to be particularly important, because of the commemoration of the two hundred years of Chile republican life. But I’m already thinking that the celebrations of this year wouldn’t be very different.
The most common place to go on these holidays is a “fonda”, but you could celebrate with friends in a house too. Actually, we could celebrate in anywhere, but you should have a barbecue, that’s the most important thing in these holidays.
I will be on holidays next week, so I have a lot of time to see to the most of my friends that I don’t see commonly. I think that I will be with my family almost one day, but the true is that I prefer to be with my friends.
I don’t think that you should spend much money on these holidays, because on these days all what you need are in anywhere, all the people want to celebrate. That doesn’t mean that you are not going to spend on nothing, that should depends of what you want to do. If you are thinking to go a “fonda” is probably that you would spend money, and maybe much money.