Another Christmas down

Well I have to say I'm actually releaved to see christmas come to an end. Now life can return to normal.

Well after new years eve.

Anyone got plans for New Year's Eve?

 

I'll probably be here driving everyone nutz. With a cold brew, of course. Cheers!

 

I'm going to a party with my college buddies.

 

I'm going to drink apple cider and celebrate with my parents.

 

well for me its with the kids. My wife is working so I will be on my lonesome with the kids. which will be in bed for 9pm and my eldest may or may not stay up with me. she's 10.

 

Mmmm, cider I wanted some tonight, but I was driving, so has to go without alcohol.

 

Apple cider isn't alcoholic.
Or I don't think it is.
I can drunk off of apples.

 

LMAO

I like pear cider.

But I like Kronenberg 1664 better.

 

Pear cider?
Is there really pear cider?

 

Oh yes.

 

Will be with the fam'. We actually have a second 'X-mas' in Puerto Rico. We celebrate Three Kings Day (also called Epiphany.)

Instead of a tree and Santa Clause, children decorate boxes and fill them with hay and grass and put them under the bed. When the Three Kings come (the ones who followed the Star of David to find the baby Jesus,) their camels eat the hay and the Kings leave you gifts in return.

 

That. Is. AWESOME.

 

I must try some of this pear cider.

 

Kopparburg pear cider is great stuff

And cider is definitely alcoholic. At least, it is in the UK.

 

gave up the drinking years ago.
but I will be calling my kid sister to
wish her happy birthday.
last baby born in the year.
Every new years eve party I ever went to
I ended up wearing some drunks drink.
No fun and ruined dresses.
Now we stay home and snuggle,
the cats

 

I get to taste white wine this time....my reward for not having cocktails at a marraige...

other than that I'll have to study..

aaaaaaaggggghhhhhhhhh!

But I guess New Year'll come first for me....5 nd a half hours ahead of G.M.T

 

Cider? Interesting. I have to make do with kool-aid that's been warmed in the microwave for about two minutes.

New Years is always fun down here. Mainly because our neighbors always get a little too happy with the fireworks and the police have mastered the dramatic entrance from the darkness ability.

 

^^ to my knowledge pear cider is called perry

I'll be spending NYE with a good friend in the quintessentially English sounding village of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire - happy meriment to all.

 

Ice wine would be my drink of choice.
It is really nice and is now affordable.

 

Pear cider is very alcoholic in the UK and I assume everywhere else also.

 

Cider is fermented juice, although sometimes unfermented raw apple juice is refered to as cider (sweet cider). I prefer cider that is just beginning t ferment, so it has active effervescence. I make it by buying unpasteurised natural sweet apple cider, and I drop in several raisins. The raisins retain some of the "bloom" (natural yeast) from the skin of the grapes, so it starts the cider working. Leave the cap loose on the cider, and with enough air space between the surface and the mouth of the bottle, or you'll end up with a huge mess.

I will be partying at home on New Year's Eve - too many drunks on the road.

 

Well it will just be me and the kids this year since Lily is working.

 

There is a certain activity I like to be engaged in when midnight rolls around.

 

Scrabble?

 

...sure....we can call it that...