Where are you going to be at the New Year?
 

I love reading about everyone's travels. So I wanted to just throw this question out. Where are you going to be spending the New Year??? What will you be doing? Share!!!

Home in New York. <BR> <BR>IMHO, in New Year's Eve, is the company that counts....

HOME!!!! Since everyone is in such a ridiculous panic over the whole Y2K thing, my husband and I have to work on Jan 1.

About 20 of us go away for New Year every year. We have rented a big house on a Highland Estate in the extreme west of Scotland. <BR> <BR>The Mansion House has been let to a bunch of merchant bankers from Edinburgh and Bermuda, and on Hogmanay, there is to be a grand ceilidh in the Hall for all the estate staff and tenants and the holiday people (about 150) At midnight there will be loud bells (we call midnight on New Year's day, "the bells" here: as in, where will you be at the bells?). Then we are being piped ( bagpipes not drainpipes) down to the lochside where there is a large bonfire and fireworks. <BR> <BR>Then we go back for more dancing and more drink. <BR> <BR>Won't that be fun!

Well, for a while I had intended to be somewhere like Paris or London, but we had our first child this year and decided to stick closer to home. We are going to a James Taylor concert (together with pre-concert party) in the new hockey/basketball stadium in Raleigh. JT is very fond of this area and has a lot of fans here, since he got his start playing on the streets of Chapel Hill when in college. Not far to travel but should be fun, and we get to be with our little girl on the first day of the year 2000 (note that I did not say Millenium - so no arguments).

As long as you don't say "third millennium," I think you're OK. After all, a millenium is any 1000-year period. How do people know when you started counting? <BR>I'll be holed up in the basement with my stores of bottled water and heirloom seeds, or maybe drinking a liquid souvenir or two.

I will be home in Ft. Lauderdale - I live one mile from the ocean and one mile from the riverfront, right in the middle of the action. I don't need to pay exorbitant airfare and hotel prices; I live in the middle of the party!

Greetings - <BR> <BR>Well, I feel like doing something but can't figure out what. I don't want to go anywhere far because we'll just be getting back from Thailand the 1st of December. <BR> <BR>My husband wants to stay home, rent movies, have his dad over, and get a big package of filet mignon from Costco. <BR> <BR>So, unless I have an epiphany, it's hand out at home and BBQ steak for me! <BR> <BR>:-)

Staying home & saving money for our next trip to Europe (in April!). Probably falling asleep before midnight too!

I'll be skiing with friends in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and partying at the local Elks Club New Year's Eve Crab Crack! Yeehaaa! <BR>

<BR>we'll be home working as we are all holidays, crossing our fingers that our employees are showing up on time, no snow storms, early to bed, up at the crack of dawn on NYD.

I'm a regular poster but will use an alias here. My husband is a reform rabbi, and as Dec 31 falls on a Friday night, I will be in temple for the service, which ends at about 10. He will be reading poetry and writings from the past 1000 years and incorporate great music as well. Then there will be music and informal bring-your-own dinner for temple members, friends and family--people can come and go. There will be time capsules made-up by kids and oral-tapes of wishes and prognostications for the next hundred years by adults. The TV will be on when the ball drops and the whole thing will be a safe alternative for anyone who wants some festivities close to home. By the way, this Jewish year is 5760, so we are way ahead of the curve!

We will be home in Belgium with lots of good food and drinks, dreaming about our upcoming holiday in February when prices have gone back to normal.

Home in Brisbane on what is bound to be a hot, humid midsummer night. There will be fireworks on the story bridge and over the Brisbane river. The sun will rise too early in the morning (in midsummer its about 4.30am) and our six month old (by then) will not know any different so it will be on with life. But I've got to admit it will be fun. Probably go down to the beach on new years day.

Oh, I WANNA be with Sheila! But more likely, will be spending NY's just like Lori (both above posts). Though I'm no fan of hot and muggy, Brisbane will probably sound pretty good by Dec. 31 - when we very well may be looking at temps well below the zero (f) mark.

We don't have our plans finalized yet, but anything we plan will pale in comparison to Sheila's New Years Eve. I thought evenings like that only happen in movies (Four Weddings and a Funeral). As I said, our plans are not finalized, so if there are any last minute cancellations in your group we will be happy to come.

Out here in Arizona, we will watch the ball drop in New York City...and I will turn to the wife and say, "Well, it's midnight somewhere...let's go to bed."

We (two couples who travel together) will cook an extra special dinner for eight, then change into formal wear, welcome our guests, drink some of the wonderful souvenirs we've brought back from Burgundy, and make sure we've got CNN on in the background to watch what happens around the globe as the clock strikes midnight in each time zone!

Staying home... We (two couples who travel together) will cook an extra special dinner for eight, then change into formal wear, welcome our guests, drink some of the wonderful souvenirs we've brought back from Burgundy, and make sure we've got CNN on in the background to watch what happens around the globe as the clock strikes midnight in each time zone!

woops...how easy it is to hit that button twice...