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we usually have a party, not organised anytyhing yet though.  |
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We're going out for a meal with friends and will be on the way home or just home at midnight. (snow permitting) I don't really like NY eve and would rather just go to bed - never been one for big NY eve events. Love the ball drop idea - never knew of it before now. |
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Actually the technique is modern now, but the celebration goes back over 100 years: Revelers began celebrating New Year's Eve in Times Square as early as 1904, but it was in 1907 that the New Year's Eve Ball made its maiden descent from the flagpole atop One Times Square. The first New Year's Eve Ball, made of iron and wood and adorned with one hundred 25-watt light bulbs, was 5 feet in diameter and weighed 700 pounds. The Ball has been lowered every year since 1907, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when the ceremony was suspended due to the wartime "dimout" of lights in New York City. Neverthels, the crowds still gathered in Times Square in those years and greeted the New Year with a minute of silence followed by the ringing of chimes from sound trucks parked at the base of the tower - a harkening-back to the earlier celebrations at Trinity Church, where crowds would gather to "ring out the old, ring in the new." |
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There's only been one year when we've done anything, but that was pre-kids. Nothing planned for this year . . . we'll probably see the new year in with Jools Holland's TV show but at the moment I would like to see the back of this year as it has ended with a definite whimper. |
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Nothing planned here but will stay up to see the New Year in ......  |
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Nothing planned as I have to work New Years day, nearlky always do choose to work that day as I iike Christmas off.... Whatever you all do have a good evening. |
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I enjoyed 2009...to be honest a very nice year, a few downs and a few up. The biggets up a new addition to the family. Elizabeth Olivia. Have a good Twixmast everyone. |
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We don't normally celebrate New Years Eve. I find it quite a difficult time too, tbh and 1 Jan was my mum's Birthday, so hard now that she is no longer with us... However, this year my brother and sister and families are coming to us for New Years Eve and Day as we didn't see them at Christmas. Some good friends will also be celebrating with us, so hopefully this NYE will be better than those in recent years! |
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