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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (69622)	1/1/2000 12:37:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Happy New Year, Christine, and everyone else! I am very thankful that the Y2K bug seems to be a bust, at least so far, knock wood. We just finished a wonderful bottle of Pommery, and have started a bottle of Domaine Chandon Blanc des Noirs, not as good, but still very good. We've been nibbling brie with Carr's water crackers, and beluga caviar. It's pricey, but the odometer change will never be as significant in my lifetime, so what the hey! And of course we bought it all at discount stores. When the ball dropped at Times Square, we were pleased to see the wonderful display at the Washington Monument given pride of place for a while. If you were watching, it was about as good as being there, they did a nice job showing it. Afterwards we marched outside with horns, noisemakers, and fireworks. At our old house, we were the only ones to make noise outside, so we were thrilled to hear a lot of other people in the new neighborhood making lots of noise, ringing bells, cheering, and tooting horns. After a while the other people came around the corner up the block and walked down the street towards us, they were teenagers who live in the neighborhood, and they continued up the street, cheering, ringing bells, and tooting horns. Ben said he recognized some kids from his high school. Chris started setting off the fireworks, pitiful things that they were, the only ones that are legal in Fairfax are variations on fountains and sparklers. While he was setting them off, a dark blue SUV drove by and stopped, in it were two Fairfax police. I went out and explained that they were legal, we had bought them in the city, and they said, "oh, we don't care, we just wanted to watch!", but I doubt they would have been so jovial if the fireworks weren't legal. The police drove off, and as they passed the crowd of teenagers, they gave a little trill on the siren as a salute, but, thank goodness, kept going.