# What are you doing for New Year's Eve? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557 "2004-12-01T20:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/41 "2004-12-03T16:14:51Z")
Probably eating Indian food and then going to the [Miracle Block](http://www.christmasstreet.com/). The Miracle Block is well-known for it’s Xmas lights, but on New Year’s Eve they drop a ball and there’s a guy running around in a diaper pretending to be baby new year. People crowd the street drinking and kissing and it’s a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/42 "2004-12-03T16:25:49Z")
New Year’s Eve, I will probably be cooking the traditional Pork and Sauerkraut for the New Year’s Day feast, and then heading to Harrisburg with my hun Jayjay for a New Year’s Eve party at a friend’s house. We are going to stay in Harrisburg overnight, and then head north for the weekend, visiting with friends, and spending holiday time with Jayjay’s mom. Will also be celebrating my 40th. That’s right, another New Years baby here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/43 "2004-12-03T16:37:19Z")
For those of you without plans living in the New York City / New Jersey area, there’s always the 3rd annual [:eek: **Nude** :eek: Year’s Eve](http://www.bizone.org/news-2002-01-01-nye-success.html) clothing optional Party hosted by BiZone. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/44 "2004-12-03T17:12:52Z")
> [@Farmwoman](#): > > 7th year and counting… > Our house will be filled with ex-bartenders from NYC coming up here to escape the madness. We avoid NYE crowds like plague, but no one has to go far to score a pretty good martini. > > We shop in the early afternoon then drink gallons of wine while preparing the Royal Feast. Tradition dictates we dine in 'jammies, so there has grown a fierce competition to see who can show up at the table in the most outrageous sleepveer. > > Then we plaly board (bored?) games until the New Year is rocked in, bang some pots and pans on the porch to shake up the sheep, and go to bed. > > Bloody Mary’s are served at 11:00 > > All are welcome. That sounds like sooooo much fun. **mr smartini** worked as a bartender during college…can we come? 😃 Actually, we usually spend that week with my husband’s extended family at a condo at the beach. Eat too much, shop too much, play board games and cards…then at midnight we take the champagne down to beach. Sometimes we try to start a bonfire, but we are city folks, and not too adept at that, so one should bring a coat to stay warm. No way I would want to be on the road that night. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/45 "2004-12-03T17:17:24Z")
Last time I went home for New Years, we spent it in San Felipe, Mexico. We might be doing the same thing this year, I’m not sure. Either way, a good time was had by all. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/46 "2004-12-03T17:25:51Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > What **gobear** said, cept I’ll be doing it with my current squeeze instead of his cause he prolly wouldn’t like it if I did it with his. 😃 Well, the sofa might be a bit crowded, but you’re always welcome at our place! If we’re also covering New Year’s Day, I’ll watch the 1960 version of **The Time Machine** (an annual ritual for me) and then my partner and I will join his family for brunch at at a local Pan-Asian cuisine restaurant which has a killer menu. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/47 "2004-12-03T18:01:30Z")
Church NYE service, then the annual party for the church singles at my house. Sometime past midnight, I’ll sneak listens of Coast To Coast AM. Next day, the annual venture to see the latest LOTR movie- yay for Part IV, The Scouring of the Shire coming out this year! What? Actually, we will probably go to see some movie- I’m kinda hoping Webber’s PHANTOM. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/48 "2004-12-04T19:14:50Z")
My brother and I and our two friends have had pitiful little parties for the past five or six years. This year we’re shaking things up a bit and having it at my house instead of my friend’s, because we just got a really big TV. We’ll start it off with dinner at my friend’s house with all our parents and siblings, then probably go on an ACME run to stock up on ice cream and chips and stuff, then spend the rest of the night watching movies and stuff. We never do as many fun things as we plan on doing, but it’s always fun anyway. One year we missed watching the ball drop because we were playing the video game version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” Last year we watched it on the Spanish channel. ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/49 "2004-12-06T13:59:32Z")
We typically spend it, just the two of us, with lobster, wine, oysters rockefeller…we try desparately to stay awake til midnight! Swampbear, I love your menu…can I come for dinner? Be a heck of a lot warmer than up here, for sure. What’s a BART? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/50 "2004-12-06T14:19:54Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Well, the sofa might be a bit crowded, but you’re always welcome at our place! Woohoo! Course there’s also room in the hot tub down here, so y’all come visit. > [@Canadiangirl](#): > > Swampbear, I love your menu…can I come for dinner? Be a heck of a lot warmer than up here, for sure. > > What’s a BART? Heck yeah, I’ll set another place at the table just for you! I have no idea what a BART is, other than that bratty kid on “The Simpsons.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/51 "2004-12-06T14:43:03Z")
> [@Canadiangirl](#): > > What’s a BART? Bay Area Rapid Transit. The mass transit system around San Francisco Bay area. ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/52 "2004-12-06T15:00:25Z")
Ghanima wrote she’s taking the BART…what’s a BART? Swampbear - just to make me really crazy - what would the temperature be there on New Years. Here it’s likely to be anywhere between freezing and sub freezing with lots of snow! Oh, wait a minute, HOT TUB 🙂🙂 Hear the sound of running very fast…hang on, I’m coming! ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/53 "2004-12-06T15:02:15Z")
posted at the same time…thanks for the BART definition… ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/54 "2004-12-06T15:15:22Z")
Probably church. If not, then staying home. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/55 "2004-12-06T15:39:21Z")
> [@Canadiangirl](#): > > Swampbear - just to make me really crazy - what would the temperature be there on New Years. Here it’s likely to be anywhere between freezing and sub freezing with lots of snow! > > Oh, wait a minute, HOT TUB 🙂🙂 Hear the sound of running very fast…hang on, I’m coming! I know this will sound weird, but the temp here New Year’s Day could be anywhere from mid 40sF to mid 70sF. Depends on whether we get one of those “cold fronts” coming in from this big ol’ country just north of the USA. 😃 The hot tub is clothing optional, but you might want to pack a robe for when you get out if it. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/56 "2004-12-06T23:16:38Z")
I now feel obliged to point out that taking the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) also means not having to drive across the bridge, not having to stay sober (or drive drunk) and ESPECIALLY not having to park. In San Francisco, on New Year’s Eve, this is a definite luxury. Sorry for the localspeak in my previous post. Carry on. P.S. Although I may cancel my plans and butt in on **Canadiangirl** ’s dinner…lobster, wine and Oysters Rockefeller!!! Where do I sign up? And to complete this hijack, do you have a recipe for Oysters Rockefeller? Gimme have it! ---
**Author:** ![kittenlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kittenlm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenlm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/57 "2004-12-06T23:46:43Z")
**Hal** and I will be heading up to my parent’s cabin in the Poconos. Their place is in a gated community and every year (except last year…grrr) the development hosts a NYE party. They supply the noisemakers, DJ, and a heated building. We supply the food and adult beverages. The most fun I have _ever_ had for $10! And the best part is no worrying about who will stay sober enough to drive. Their cabin is only 2 blocks from the “clubhouse” and it’s all dirt roads. So, we don’t have to worry about hitting anyone or anything (other than deer). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/58 "2004-12-07T04:56:51Z")
I plan on getting quietly schnockered alone right here in front of my computer. Go me. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/59 "2004-12-07T08:33:45Z")
My wife will be working a flight that goes to Des Moines, Iowa. It gets there in the early afternoon and leaves out early the next morning. We figure there won’t be many people flying from Memphis to Des Moines, so I will go along (free, of course). The early morning flight means that we won’t be out partying at midnight, but we plan to go to a damn nice steakhouse for dinner. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Miabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miabella)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557/60 "2004-12-07T13:44:02Z")
**fruitbat** and I will be going to a production of “A Christmas Carol” at Ford’s Theatre in DC. The play starts at 7:30, so we’ll probably have an early or late dinner at a Vietnamese or Indian restaurant in the neighborhood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-doing-for-new-years-eve/277557.md?page=4)