Then we played a new Wii game that Sydney had gotten for Christmas. Appropriately it was called Wii Party Games. It was pretty funny. We all had a good laugh out of it, and soon it was time to turn on the Rocking New Years Eve show on TV. I'm not sure what the kids thought about the ball once they actually saw it. They had many questions about it during the last few days. It is really quite an odd event when you think about it :)
A few minutes to midnight we busted out the bubbly and had snacks. The kids had the sparkling grape juice and Alan and I had rose champagne.
Hang in there Zachary, you can stay awake!!
Cheers!! Here's to a healthy and happy new year for everyone!
No party would be complete without some explosives (huh?) so we shot off a couple of party poppers. It did make a bit of a mess, but who cares!
After the toast and the new year kisses, we headed outside to launch a Chinese lantern for each of us. We all picked out a different color and lit them up.
It took a little while to get them burning and floating in the air, but finally they did fly. One of them had a bit of trouble making it past our house and bumped into our roof. I thought we had just started the fire that would burn down our house! No worries though, it just kept on flying.
They did go up pretty high into the air, and eventually they turned into just a speck of light in the distance. I wondered if any of the neighbors saw them, and thought they were UFOs! Or worse yet, if they had started to decend, still on fire, and landed on a neighbor's house!!
This is a bad picture, but the lantern is the small light to the right of the street lamp.
It was a fun New Years Eve, and we all had a good time. The kids didn't get to bed until 12:59 - which might explain why they are both so tired today and are starting to catch a cold. Ooops. :)
