Saying Goodbye to 2008
Hubby asked if we were going to stay up to see the New Year in--I said I'd try, but would probably be in bed long before midnight. I thought back about all the New Year's Eves we've celebrated. We've gone to fancy dinners and dances in many different places. One I remember most was on the Hueneme Navy Base in the Bard mansion that was reported to be haunted. Don't remember seeing any ghosts, but do remember having a nice dinner and dancing all evening. (Haven't been able to get my husband on the dance floor for years.) Another New Year's Even I remember well was when hubby was in Vietnam so I offered to babysit all the neighbor kids for the night so their parents could go out. I don't remember exactly how many, but there was a bunch, and it was like a crowded slumber party. When my kids were young, the big refreshment for New Years Eve was always root beer floats. When my husband and I had our residential care home, root beer floats along with lots of sn