Bringing in the New Year with a BANG!

This is how we spent the last day of 2010:

Building a fort in the snow.....

Having a "war" with silly string guns....

Playing "Snow Soccer"......

Wearing Crazy Hats.....

A great Danish tradition! (We find fantastic hats every year!)

Eating a traditional Danish New Year's Meal....

We also played some games and watched some t.v. while we waited for the New Year to arrive...

Dane and I made some New Year's Fireworks Paintings. First we colored with crayons. Then we painted over the full page with watered down black paint. After they dried, we added glue and colored glitter. The perfect New Year's Eve Art Project...

Then, at about 11:30 p.m., with Uncle Carsten's safety glasses on....

We headed outside for the fireworks!

In Denmark, you can see fireworks in every direction as the new year arrives. It is hard to decide which direction to look. People are lighting fireworks on nearly every street, the sky is filled with all kinds of color and light!

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