New Years Eve Traditions....

Okay....I am about to fess up to a NYE tradition that might make some of your skin crawl, and then others of you will think that it sounds like fun, and then there will be others who don't really have a thought. Let me start by saying that NPayne (and myself for that matter) don't like to do anything, on NYE, where we have to be driving at the wee hours of the morning. NPayne refers to NYE as amateur night.....all the people who don't normally drink and drive will be drinking and driving along with all the people who do normally drink and drive....hence amateur night. So you guessed it, we don't go anywhere which will require us to be in the midst of amateur night. A few years ago, we and another family (the Mitchells) decided we would try to find something fun to do on NYE which wouldn't require us to be out really late (they are quite the early birds, so they are usually in bed by 9:00) and that we could do with our children. We decided to give Chuck E Cheese a try....pizza and salad for everyone, games and activities for all ages of our children (currently ages 2-11), and an environment where we could keep an eye on them but still enjoy each other's adult conversations (not adult in a Rated R kinda way but just in a general...How's work? kinda way). So we bit the bullet and went to Chuck E Cheese....I know I know there are many people opposed to CEC and that giant mouse (isn't Chuck E Cheese a mouse?), but it was actually great. We arrived around 5:30....nobody there, so we had the whole place to ourselves. We all ate together, played, visited and were outta there by 7:30; so the Mitchells could get home and ready for dreamland (wink). After the Payne Train leaves CEC, we head on over to Target for our children to use some of their (gazillion) gift cards they received for Christmas. They each pick something out, and we head home for them to enjoy their newly picked out purchase while NPayne and I cuddle on the sofa; and I enjoy nice hot coffee. Everyone, under the age of 30, is in bed around 10ish; and the remaining inhabitants (NPayne and myself) watch a little more TV or talk or whatever....I am always asleep by about 11:00/11:30. He usually watches the ball drop, but I can't really be bothered with that. We are planning on keeping that tradition this year....if all goes as planned (meaning things are good with my Lifelong friend and her baby), but this year....Addi asked if she could stay up until midnight. If that's the case, she and NPayne can watch the ball drop together....the rest of us (under 30 and one over 40) will be in dreamland.
As for New Years resolutions.....I'll post on that tomorrow! Do you have any NYE traditions?