12.31.07
The seventh day of Christmas (New Year’s Eve)
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…
Seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree
Happy new year!
As throngs of tourists head into Times Square to watch the famous New Year’s Ball drop for the 100th year in a row, we are planning to celebrate in a quieter fashion, on the Brooklyn side of the East River. The four of us have a dinner reservation at a local French restaurant and it should be a relaxed but fun evening. I like a good party as much as the next person but with one million people crowding into Times Square and a scarcity of toilets and cabs, it just doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. I’m glad that we have good friends to spend the time with instead, and I’m also looking forward to New Year’s Day itself.
Jess and Andrew walked across the Brooklyn Bridge today so they met me for breakfast and the Jessica that I’m staying with came as well. The boys got back from Boston around lunch time and it’s been a low key afternoon – I have unsuccessfully been trying to get some work done.
The biggest thing that happened today is that British Airways cancelled our flight back to London on Thursday night. When we first went online to rebook, there was an available flight earlier that evening. But while we were dilly-dallying and looking at options, that flight got booked up and we couldn’t get another one until Sunday. So we are now staying an extra three days. From a purely personal point of view I’m pleased as I was running out of time to do things on my list and I’m freelance anyway so the two days off work make very little difference. Unfortunately it does eat into my boyfriend’s vacation time but there’s not much we can do about it. Luckily we have free accommodation – I just hope our friends don’t mind having us around for an extra few days. It looks like they’ve cancelled the 8.30pm flight either every day or several days this week – they probably didn’t reach full capacity and decided to rationalise the schedule.
