Happy New Year!
We celebrated New Year's Eve in the "Little Apple" (Manhattan, KS) last night. We braved the 7 degree cold weather (for a short time at least) to watch the ball drop. Oh wait - that's what they do in times square - here in Kansas they drop an apple (see above picture).
This "apple drop" draws quite a crowd. I read on their website that in past years 10,000 people lined the streets for this New Year's celebration. There were bands playing, a laser show, and fireworks. It was fun, despite the cold (and the hoards of crazy college students). John and I were wearing our smart wool socks, duofolds, our warm winter coats, hat and gloves - and we were still freezing. Most of the girls we saw were wearing skirts and high heels; we even saw a few girls wearing open toed shoes! Insanity.
Happy 2010 :)
I stole the two pictures below from the Manhattan New Year's website. I didn't get many good pictures - it was too cold to take my hands out of my gloves to snap pictures!
