We always stay home, as New Years Eve in Spokane is also known as Amateur Night and is probably the biggest fund raising event (in the form of issuing DUI's and citations) for the Spokane Police Department. We are having crab, steamers, asparagus and baked potatoes for dinner, then it's various forms of alcohol (I'm thinking tequila slammers pour moi) and playing board games and the Kinect with the Girl.

I am booked as Santa for this party at the Universal Hilton

Now that my home is teen free, I'm sitting down with a nice glass of champagne. Then I need a very long nap.

Well that was unexpectedly nuts. Ended up tagging along with CP's brother and his friends. One lives walking distance from the North Hollywood metro stop, so we hung out as his place getting drunk, hit the metro (free all night) around 11, took it to universal, walked up the hill, saw the fireworks, got crushed by the crowd for about 10 minutes, found out that everywhere that sells booze except for a couple clubs closed at midnight, walked down the other side of the hill, grabbed some In'n'Out, caught the last metro out, and called it a night.

Nutty but tons of fun. And kinda blew my mind to get on a subway in the Valley (not the first time I've ridden the Metro in LA, but the first time entering a station in the valley).

Champagne? I would have reached for something a bit stronger, next time drop a jigger of cognac in that flute and make it a champagne cocktail.

The day is saved!