It's hard to believe that another year has gone by. To celebrate the New Year, we hosted a dinner party.
We were joined by Mike and Allison, their friends Jo and Courtney who were visiting, Mike and Natalie and their friend Chip, also visiting, all joined us for the celebration. I cooked lasagna, Mike A. made champagne cocktails and we finished the evening with ice cream sundaes.
We quickly came to realize that in Sweden, New Year's Eve means lots of fireworks. It sounded like our 4th of July as everyone was out in the streets setting off their own private firework display.
At midnight, the city of Stockholm lights off a firework display. It was a cold night and Belle was sleeping, so we opted to stay at home and watch the festivities that were being broadcast from Skansen on television, while the rest of the group left to watch the display in town. It's a Swedish tradition to read the Tennyson's poem "Ring out‚ wild bells" at midnight. This year, it was read by Swedish artist Loa Falkman.
As I reminisced about 2014, it was a year filled with new friends, travel and adventure. I can only hope that 2015 will be as fun.
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