What were you doing 10 years ago to celebrate?

[englishteacha]

So how did you celebrate the coming of Y2K? Did you party like it was 1999 or did you hide, sensing impending doom?

I honestly don't remember what we did. That might have been the year we rented the Back to the Future trilogy and watched all 3 movies.

I'm just wondering what you did 10 years ago, and how your celebration for 2010 will differ! This year we're going to see Avatar for a matinee with some friends and having dinner after.

 

[autumnpalm]

Nothing too exciting! I was in middle school, so I stayed home with my parents, drank sparkling grape juice and watched the TV broadcast of the fireworks all over the world. I don't even think I knew what the whole Y2K thing really meant. Just that people were freaking out about it!

 

[Robindianne]

Talked on the phone w/then boyfriend (now DH) while he worked on IT stuff for the state of Oregon. He got some mega overtime that winter rewriting code, making work-arounds, putting out communications about what to do and not to do with state PCs.

 

[Wall-E1]

I can't remember what I was doing ten minutes ago, let alone ten years ago.

 

[DramaQueen]

omg I was only 10 years old!!
I remember I went to Medieval Times with my family and then we came home and got in our pajamas, stayed up til midnight and my mom let DSis & i have a sip of champagne.

 

[mamacatnv]

We were at WDW, with 36 assorted family members. It was our first visit for DH, myself and the kids. We had 14 adjoining hotel rooms at All Star Sport. The planning for the trip had been ongoing for 7 years! We had a blast.

WDW was trying to alleviate all the Y2K concerns. There were portable lights with generators all over the property. They were trying to "disguise" them in out of the way places but often there were just a few potted palms placed in front of them, it was almost comical. All guests were supplied with flashlights and a letter explaining all the things that WDW had done to ensure that we guests would not be inconvenienced by the ominous threat of Y2K.

We were also given a "game plan" on how to approach spending New Years in a park. Our family group decided to avoid the total chaos and we had our own party around the pool. We could see the fireworks all around us and we had a great time.

 

[mvazul]

We were first at a party at my parents' house. Then my husband (then boyfriend), aunt, uncle and I went out to dinner and then back to my parents'. I don't remember too much of that night, because I kept waiting for my husband to propose.

He had made me go with him to pick out my engagement ring the day before even though I didn't want to go. So, of course he was going to propose New Year's Eve, right? NOPE!! He proposed on March 18, 2000!!! I still said yes, so I must not have been too miffed about it! Actually, it was much better that way. I had pretty much forgotten about the ring and had no clue he was proposing that night.

Michelle

 

[Tink888]

Not a very good New Years for us. My DH was stuck, alone in New England on work related travel. I was at home with my sons, 4 & 2 at the time, and we all had colds. I watched the ball drop with the boys asleep next to me and I think the highlight of the night was that I had made ice cream sundaes for them.

It was the first and only New Year's that we've ever not spent together.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

My grandfather was in the final stage of cancer. He was so excited about new years and we all spent the day with him.

He was a big conspiracy guy and thought disaster loomed at midnight and he couldn't wait.

We stayed with him to about 2am, waiting for something to happen, lol. He finally turned off the tv and told us all to go home.

He dead in his sleep that night. 1-1-2000.

 

[mvazul]

My grandfather was in the final stage of cancer. He was so excited about new years and we all spent the day with him.

He was a big conspiracy guy and thought disaster loomed at midnight and he couldn't wait.

We stayed with him to about 2am, waiting for something to happen, lol. He finally turned off the tv and told us all to go home.

He dead in his sleep that night. 1-1-2000.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Thx. That's the way he wanted to go.

 

[Bunchkin]

I can remember that far back!!

My DD was only 2 yrs old at the time, so she was in bed fast asleep. My DH didn't believe in any of the hype and had worked all day so he actually went to bed and didn't stay up. So I sat by myself and watched the festivities on tv.

 

[chisnpeke]

I was 11 years old.

My whole family went out to dinner and then to my grandparents' house to watch the ball drop. My uncle then went into the basement and turned off the electricity and I started to get really upset. We soon realized that there were lights on outside and that he was playing a joke.

That was the last year my grandma was alive. She died in July 2000, so I will always have fond memories of that night.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I was at Epcot doing "New Year's Eve Around The World". Entered Epcot around 7:30am. At 11:00 was at Japan (Midnight in Tokyo). At Noon was in China (Midnight in Peking). At 6:00 was having dinner in Akershus (Midnight in Norway). At 7:00 was in madhouse at UK (Midnight in London). At Midnight was watching IllumiNations. At at 1:00 was at Mexico (Midnight in Mexico City). It was a fun-filled and very crowded day.

We were staying at Contemporary Tower and had already been there since December 23. We had made our reservations in 1992 and were paying less than 50% of the rate of people checking in on December 26 or later for a similar room.

 

[LaraK]

I was working, as was my husband. I worked in a hospital and he worked IT in a hotel. We had all of our managers working that night in case anything happened and we had to manually take over the machines.....we all sat in the board room and watched the ball drop. Then we waited for the gunfire to subside (I worked in Baltimore at the time....firing illegal firearms in the air at midnight is a big tradition) and then went home.

 

[wendym]

So were we!! However we did leave for a break during the day and missed our own (UK) New Year! We had a great day and returned at night for Illuminations. We had a great week and have so many meories of it.

 

[John VN]

Same thing I will be doing tonight, checking the back of my eyelids, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[wdwgal]

I was at the hospital giving birth to my first DD. She was born at 2:00am 1-1-00. She was the first baby to be born in our county. It was a very special time in our lives. I do remember the TV being on in the hospital room and they were showing all the different celebrations around the world.

wdwgal

 

[vettechick99]

I was literally moving to FL from GA. I remember sitting in my new living room unpacking and watching the ball drop. That move was life changing for me, now that I think back on it...

 

[kacaju]

i had my 3rd dd 9 days earlier. I'm sure I was sleeping!!