Happy New Year!

We had a fun relaxed New Year's Eve again this year but this year we didn't spend it at home!  We went to our friend's house to celebrate the New Year.  We took the kids with us so that they could play with their friends too.  We brought the kids pajamas and had them change into them after we had eaten a few snacks since we assumed they would fall asleep at some point.  We were wrong.  The kids stayed up until midnight!!  They were very excited to be up so late but behaved very well.  We lit off some of our own fireworks which took about 2 minutes and then we let the kids play with sparklers.  They had a great time making circles with the sparklers and it was fun to watch them.  At midnight the real fireworks started in true Czech style.  We could see fireworks in all directions from firework displays put on by local villages to  fireworks put on my local people from their yards.  We watch fireworks for about 40 minutes and then decided it was time to get the kids home to bed.  As we drove home we watched fireworks from the car but they were mostly over by then so it was mainly a good way to keep the kids awake searching for the five minute car ride. UnfortunatelyI left my camera at home so I don't have any pictures but it was a fun night!