HAPPY 2007!

So what did everyone do to ring in the New Year?

Us and JLo went to 4 parties!

The first party was at the Recreation centre in Golden. It's Golden's 50th anniversary this year, so they had a special big party for the whole town. There was ice skating, popcorn, a free "Golden Anniversary" pin, glow sticks, and tons of activities for kids to do. Like gingerbread cookie decorating, which Colin snatched one off the table. Also, a pinata. The candy flew everywhere, including the top of some vending machines. Since Colin's so tall, he noticed some candy there a few minutes later so got to enjoy the pinata too.

The next party was up at the Kicking Horse Mountain. They had fire dancers and fireworks! We almost missed it because we were too busy enjoying the wonderful pork roast that super sleuth made, and lost track of time. We made it though, and the fireworks were impressive! After that, they were offering free tubing on the dinky little tubing hill, so we warmed up by running up the hill a bunch of times to race down on our tubes. Thanks to Colin and Justin, we almost got kicked out. We're still not sure if the tubing hill was actually closing, or if it's just what the guy told us so we'd leave.

By this time it was about 10:15, so on to the next party: an impromptu party. On the way back to JLo's, we noticed that the local toboggan hill had a rather large and hot bonfire, and there was no one in sight. We initially stopped just to put out the fire, but then adventure got the best of us.

We opened the trunk of the truck, blasted some party music, grabbed tupperware lids and cardboard and took turns ripping down the tobbogan hill! It was so much fun! This was by far the steepest hill I've been on so it was kinda scary. But scary = fun!

When we were too tired to hike one more time up the hill, we danced around the fire and then put the fire out with snow. Ohh, it's getting close to midnight...we need to get to our last party!

Back at the JLo pad, we sat exhausted for awhile. When we decided that we were being lame, we played Guesstures to ring in the new year...the exact same thing we were doing LAST new years! We rang "in" 2006 the same way we rang it "out".

Golden is in Alberta's time zone, so our New Years was an hour before it is here. They only have one channel (CBC), which is in Vancouver time, so there was no countdown on TV. So when the oven clock said 12:00, we just started counting down from 10. We don't even know if it was really midnight! When we got to 0, the noisy boys went outside and banged pots and pans screaming "Happy New Year" to the quiet neighbours outside.

We stayed up long enough to do the CBC countdown with Vancouver, then all went to bed.

What a fun day, and a fun way to start 2007!