For New Year's we wanted to stay pretty low key so we invited over Simon and Sarah and found out that other American friend's of ours, Kent and Becki, didn't have any plans either so we asked them to turn up as well. We made up a bunch of snacky foods and sweets to munch on for the evening. We also searched out 6 different grocery stores in Peterborough to find fresh mint so that I could have mojitos for New Year's...I could have settled for something else but I was so craving them. My husband is the best because he did most of the running around for me. I called all over and Waitrose had one bag left and held it aside for me!!!
We had a great time eating and playing cards for most of night and into the early morning hours. At midnight though we took a few minutes to enjoy the fireworks in London as we rung in the New Year.
It looks like we could have been there ourselves...look at all the people along the Thames across from the Eye.
It would have been so cool to actually be there, but I'm sure it is just a super crazy place. I very much enjoyed ringing in the year at home though.
Honestly the coolest thing was to celebrate 2010 while in England - a whole 6 hours sooner than we normally would back home. So many years I've watched Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve (and now with Ryan Seacrest) and at 11PM we would watch the ball would fall in New York, but now I was getting to witness London's celebration live on the tellie...how cool is that?!!!
Happy 2010 Everyone!!!!
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