Happy New Year! - I

Happy New Year! - I haven't spent New Years out of my house since...yeesh, probably 1994. New Years generally involves buying a bottle of sparkling apple cider, playing games and doing stuff with the kids until midnight, then running around the house banging pots (and occasionally shooting off illegal bottle rockets smuggled in from North Dakota the previous summer) at midnight.

Last night started off being no different. Took the kids skating at the Roseville Ice Arena, and got a thoroughly unexpected invite from a friend to a party at her house. New Years among adults (and their kids, of course) - unthinkable! And fun!

And most of the people at the party were in the wine business, so I even had champagne I actually enjoyed for the first time ever.