Not just another New Year...

This year we went above and beyond the call of our New Year celebrating duties by going to watch the fireworks in central London. An event such as this requires planning with military precision. The biggest challenge is the transportation. After midnight, the trains that we would normally take to get home are not running, so we had to figure out how to get home on the “night-bus”. Yes, the night-bus is as scary as it sounds. The other challenge is finding a good location to watch the fireworks along with 350,000 other drunken Londoners. The final challenge is to avoid getting trampled on the way home after the fireworks are finished. We successfully completed all three challenges, and the fireworks were brilliant. I am really glad we braved it, but I doubt we will pluck up the courage to do it again next year.

As an added bonus, there was a live American Football match on television when we got home (at around 2:30AM). I was even more excited when I found out that it was the Chicago Bears vs the Green Bay packers in the final game of the regular season. I was so excited to watch the Bears play, having heard how good they were this season. Sadly, they were complete shite! I decided to go to bed at half time when they were loosing 23-0. So much for being unbeatable this season. From what I saw, I doubt they will make it past their first playoff game.

A few pics from our New Years adventure…