Retirees, What are you doing on New Year's Eve?? (move, coverage, movies)

[LoveBoating]

I'm sure there are older folks (55 plus) that go out on NYE to a party, but most aren't on this forum! There are party's that are put on for this age bracket. When we lived in So Calif, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, put one on specifically for that age bracket. There was also a NYE party for the younger folks.

[Newdaawn]

We'll be attending our small city's "First Night" which has 8 or 9 places that offer entertainment free. Much of it is music and you can move from place to place as many are put on several times. We'll also have dinner somewhere while out walking around. Hope the weather isn't stormy. We don't worry about being cold as you can just pop in anywhere there is entertainment and warm up. Usually we end up home before midnight.

[jim9251]

I'm 60 and gonna party like it's 1999!

[PNW-type-gal]

We celebrate the New Year along with the Greenwich Meridian and the BBC - which would be 4 in the afternoon, Pacific Standard time, when we pop the champagne cork.

The one we stay up for is the bonfire on the solstice, the end of the shortened days and the return of the light. (Having lived briefly in the far north, the solstice means more to me than the turn of the calendar.)

ETA: although, when I say "stay up" - the solstice this year is at 12/21 9:30 pm PST, so it's not much of a late night.....

[Woof]

Originally Posted by GreenGene

..... I did, one year, stay up to watch "the ball drop", and I remember thinking it sure was a waste of good sleeping time!

Same here. It just floated down softly, hard to see when it actually landed. They should be a bit more dramatic about it, learn a thing or two from Hollywood about entertainment - maybe let it drop in free-fall and then shatter when it hit the ground, crowds racing to get away from the deadly shards, sounds of machine guns and cops whistles, people screaming ...... now THAT would be worth staying up for.

[Ellwood]

Sit on the lanai, listen to the waves, drink some wine, toast to the New Year and snuggle with my girl.

We are on a different time zone than NY, so the ball drops around dinner time for us.

[Gandalara]

Originally Posted by nitram

We do the same thing every year, wife goes to bed early, I stay up and watch a movie. The next morning we get up, watch the parades, then football.

Remember, the Parade isn't held January 1st this year - it's on January 2nd.

[Prairieparson]

We'll celebrate it like we do every Saturday night. Dinner and a movie, and off to bed. We have church in the morning. We need to be bright eyed and bushy tailed since I'm the pastor and my wife is the organist. I haven't been much on New Years eve since college. I used to be a valet for a fancy resturant. We had to sit around till almost everyone went home, usually 2:30-3 am. People would come out and say such profound things as, "just think, 1972." Big deal.

[IDASpaceman]

Naked wheelchair races at the home, last year Widow Mackenzie's boob got caught in the wheel, yeeeowwww. Seriously though, it's a toss up between naked karaoke or twister! We ring in the new year around 5 pm, just before med time. Feel free to send me a message for those interested.

[BJW50]

I'm staying at home. My wife, her sister and nieces are having a ladies night out.