Assisted Living in Utah and Indepencent Living New Year celebrations
Posted by Kevin Taylor on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 @ 04:24 PM
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This may be active independent living at Le Chateau at Brickyard Plaza, but you still didn't expect the residents to stay up until midnight, did you?
At Le Chateaut at Brickyard Plaza, the residents celebrate the New Year twleve hours earlier than most, at noon. However, to paraphrase a popular song "It's twelve o'clock somewhere."
The residents enjoy having their own New Year's countdown, then toasting the new year with sparkling cider. You are welcome to join with these residents in their celebration by playing the video.
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Another celebration at Heritage Place had their independent residents making their own noisemakers the day before the party, then using those to welcome the new year. Heritage Place also included a slide show review of the past year, highlighting favorite memories and activities during their celebration.
Heritage Place also pulls in a New Year's tradition that pomegranate juice brings good luck for the new year, by toasting with pomegranate juice mixed with ginger ale. I (personally) didn't even know that I should be drinking pomegranate juice to make my new year luckier.
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These celebrations may not be Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve, but then -- having watched that recently -- that may not be such a bad thing. The residents get to welcome the new with their friends without having the commercial breaks, or the headache on New Year's Day. And if they want to watch Dick Clark later, they are free to do that as well.
Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year from Retirement Living Group! We hope that your celebrations are as fun and safe as ours have been. Share with us some favorite memories from this or previous New Year's celebrations. We'd love to know.