Bucking the trend
Everyone is asking what I am planning to do for New Years tonight.
Answer? Nothing. Probably be in bed before midnight as I have been needing more sleep than usual (kicking a cold or something).
Sitting in the Bakery office catching up on bookwork and getting ready to close out 2010.
As for the rest of the world -- it looks like quite the party. From
FOX News:
Millions gather worldwide to ring in new year
Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbor, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revelers released balloons carrying notes with people's hopes and dreams as the world ushered in 2011.
In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards began partying through the night to help put a year of economic woe behind them. And in New York, nearly a million New Year's Eve revelers were expected to cram into Times Square to watch the midnight ball drop, just days after the city got clobbered by a blizzard.
As rainclouds cleared, around 50,000 people, many sporting large, brightly colored wigs this year, gathered in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square to take part in "Las Uvas," or "The Grapes," a tradition in which people eat a grape for each of the 12 chimes of midnight.
Chewing and swallowing the grapes to each tolling of the bell is supposed to bring good luck, while cheating is frowned on and revelers believe it brings misfortune.
Police had painstakingly screened all those arriving to make sure drinks and bottles were left behind to avoid injury in the crowded square, so many quickly downed their sparkling cava wine before joining the animated party.
Me, I'll be in the DaveCave(tm) finishing off the backlog of email and heading up to bed a bit early. Boring I know but that is what sounds best to me...
Posted by DaveH at December 31, 2010 4:53 PM