HAPPY NEW YEAR Eve Day!

Our new year's eve day was spent back in Phoenix! We went to a couple different Malls (one indoor and one outdoor), found some sales we liked enough to buy from, and then set out to spend more time cousin playing! The evening adventure entertainment was a drive-in movie (Croods 2) whole fireworks go off in the distance! The Croods 2 was about the "caveman family meeting the evolved humans and the evolved humans scheming to get rid of the caveman family (but keep the man straddling both worlds). It, of course, ends up with both families realizing that they have similarities and needing to help each other out (one altra big family) and what it means to live for oneself (finding one's own " tomorrow" vs. The parents/guardians "tomorrow"). Great movie for the family as it was very colorful and adventurous but still had a sense of humor the adults could appreciate (I laughed through most of it). We learned that Luna is still not a moviegoer (and may never be) as she was very much more interested in moving about and staying in the light. Also, I've been in a drive-in movie in a loooooong time and we were very much not prepared for a lounge outside in the bed of the truck in the cold. Brrrr! We are not staying up for the new year (I have not done that since I was a teen, I think!)

New Year facts!

  • " Baby new year" has been around ancient Rome as they paraded their new babies in honor of the God of wine and fertility
  • The version of Auld lang syne that we know today is a tweaked version of an old Scottish hymn that Robert Burns played around within 1788
  • Timed ball drops were originally ser to help sailors know the time around the coast.
  • New York made a big party of it all first for a newspaper, the famous ball drop didn't start till 1907 (and has been refreshed yearly at least design-wise) along with millions of tons of confetti as it was deemed a safer option then fireworks as they would and could fall on the party-goers heads! The only time the spectacle did not occur was during WWII
  • Other states have different traditions such as a neon fruit in Florida and a drag queen drop in a big red shoe, and hereby PA dropped a Hershey kiss
  • We thank the Romans for our tradition of kissing in the new year and Japan has a tradition of scaring the children into behaving into the new year, while Antartica holds a yearly new year's festival
  • Kiribati (the Christmas islands) are the first to ring in the new year while the American Samoa is the last human inhabited island to do so
  • Lucky foods include cabbage, grapes and beans (and wearing red undies and ringed things) unlucky foods are chicken and lobster due to their backwards abilities
  • Calenders used to start or end  via the seasons (Spring), for ancient Babalonians, March held a 12 day praying celebration, while Eithiopia is (was?) September. in the 8th year if the common era (when our counting year began). We decided our 12 month calendars from Egypts 13 month calendars and it was thanks to the Gregorian calendar system from Pope Gregory XIII (who seemed it off the Julian calendar system). It took about 359 years for all of the work to catch on and incorporate it into their life


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