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NTR: NYE Plans??
Anyone have anything fun planned??
LSU is playing in some random bowl game (yeah, they sucked this season) on NYE at 6:30pm, so we're having a small gathering of friends over at our house to watch the game and then I guess we'll party on afterwards. I ordered some food, most notably, a Chick-Fil-A nugget platter, which I think I'm more excited about than the actual party! That's really sad!
I have to work on Friday and some people have already decided that they are crashing at our house, so Thursday will likely be eating my black eyed peas and cabbage (is this just a Southern thing or does everyone do it too on New Years Day?) and cleaning up.
Re: NTR: NYE Plans??
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So far NYE is the ONLY holiday that I don't have to work! I told FI that we need to get something planned.
As of now there is nothing. We might have to get on that planning soon.
Home with the step-kiddos.
And Blacked-eyed-peas are a stable on NYDay. We also do the 12 grapes at midnight. Maybe it is a Southern thing.
I've never done the 12 grapes. What does that symbolize??
Traditionally we do the whole cabbage and black-eyed-peas, but I don't eat either one. Never heard of the grapes at midnight.
I've never heard of the grapes either...
In Spain when the clock strikes midnight the people eat 12 grapes. One grape for every stroke of the clock to represent each month in the year. Each grape is said to bring good luck in the new year.
My mom always did this as long as I can remember and it just stuck in the family. Plus I would rather eat grapes than black-eyed-peas.
I would rather grapes over black eyed peas too.
C&Ping my reply from my local:
NYE is always crazy for our family. DH is in a Celtic band, and they play at a nearby inn every NYE, so they'll be there from 5:30 - 9, then eating dinner quickly before heading back into town to play at the NYE celebration that our home church hosts for the community (we're just off the town square, so we usually fill up pretty well throughout the night by offering different bands, food, warm place to hang out). They play there 10:30 - 11:30, then we go to the square to ring in the new year (and SIL sings - she does the town's annual "Auld Lang Syne" and "God Bless America" performance).
I tag along and make my own agenda... this year, I'm heading to the Inn for dinner with some friends and family and to hear the band, then coming back into town to go to the church with everyone else to help out there with serving refreshments before going to the square to celebrate at midnight. We have people crashing here that night, so we'll head back afterwards to hang out.... every single day of forever.
Ooh, and I should add - while we don't do the black-eyes peas thing for New Year's, as a born & raised Central Pennsylvania girl, we follow the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of eating sauerkraut on New Year's Day for luck for the upcoming year.
I might be wrong, but I think the peas are a Southern thing - my maternal grandmother's family is from the South and did it, but when my grandparents got married and settled here, they stuck with my grandfather's family's tradition of sauerkraut.
... every single day of forever.