Well right after the last entry the power went out later that night only to come back on Dec 30 at 12:20am. So it was quite an interesting 3 days which seemed like much longer thank goodness we had a generator and propane heat. Despite all that the New Years was pretty good. We hung out at Karen's for a while and then went over to Mom and Dad W's to ring in the New Years. We did end up leaving before the actual count down as we were both exhausted, but it was still a memorable night and her mom made some excellent food.