Notable New Year's

We are spending a quiet New Years Eve three doors down at our neighbors, the Thornburgs. Jason is always on call beginning at 5pm on New Years Eve through New Years Day so our options are limited...not to mention the three little sweeties we have making any other plans difficult. I thought I would whip out the scrapbooks and scan photos from three New Year Celebrations from the past that stand out in my memory.

NEW YEARS EVE 2000

My sister Katie came to visit us when we lived in New York and we had grand plans to celebrate in Times Square...it was COLD. We had no intentions of lining up at 5:30PM...it just sort of happened that we walked near the area and realized we better get a good spot. We stood for hours...no bathroom, no dinner...and no warmth. We were lucky enough to be right in the thick of it all outside MTV Studios and just 15 feet away from where the button was pushed by Muhammad Ali and NY Senator McCain to drop the ball. Watching the ball drop and the blizzard of ticker tape fall was absolutely amazing...a once in a lifetime experience!We thought if we wore silly hats our parents would be able to spot us on tv...ha!

NEW YEARS EVE 2002

Jason and I took the train into NYC and the subway up to Central Park New Years 2002...Jason knew I always wanted to run the Runner's World Midnight Run in Central Park...so he patiently stood in the cold with all the other crazies while I ran in 20 degree weather in the dark. Instead of water stops, the race had champagne stops...which were treacherous as there was lots of frozen champagne to slip on. Once finished, we loaded ourselves back on the subway (ummm...scary that time of night when NO ONE is around but for one pan handling musician playing Danny Boy on a violin in the dark, smelly bowls of the city). Ah...the memories.

NEW YEARS EVE 1992
My parents were gracious enough to scrape together funds to send me to London through the World Sports Exchange when I was a junior in high school...waaaaaaay back in 1992. I and a group of other runners spent New Years Eve at the Park Court Hotel across from Hyde Park to usher in 1993 followed by a 10K race on New Years Day in Hyde Park sponsored by the Serpentine Running Club (in which we were served minced meat pie and malt wine upon completion...mmmmm....gross).



HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!