On New Year’s Eve this year we invited a few friends over for an afternoon celebration complete with ball(oon) drop.

We’d aimed to celebrate alongside Dubai at 3pm ET, but we had a little mishap with the balloons coming down too early, so the photos above were actually from balloon drop #2 at about 3:20pm.  Blaine did enjoy seeing the fireworks going off from the Burj Khalifa livestreaming on youtube, though!

Blaine attempted to stay up until midnight that night, didn’t quite make it, and then was tired and grumpy for the next two days.  On New Year’s Day, Andrew made his traditional collard greens and black-eye pea ham hock soup to bring us good fortune in 2020!