new years party!

This year i spent new years in Plovdiv, the second largest city and my favorite to date. there were about 20 people in our group, making it one crazy party when we were all together, but for the most time we just roved around in smaller groups. i arrived the day before and spent two days sightseeing around the city. there are several old roman ruins, including a large ampatheatre close to where our hostel was. we stayed in the old part of town that still had old cobble stone roads and old style architecture built on stone walls from times past. it is a very interesting city and despite being farily upscale still does well at preserving its history and atmosphere.
for new years eve a few of us had an early dinner at a very good arabic resturant before heading down town to the bars to relax till midnight. before too long all of us where there and the energy was awesome. just before midnight we went down the town center where they had a stage set up and watched them do the countdown. when the new year arrived they shot off fireworks and everyone in the crowd started dancing the horo. we all joined in and stayed out there dancing and singing with everyone for almost two hours. there was even some light snow falling on and off for most of the night, which made it even better. i ended up heading to bed around 3 because i had an early train to catch the next day, but i still had a great time. i always love spending new years in a new city, especially with good friends. i posted a few pics from new years and christmas up, so feel free to take a look. http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0EbOGLZo3cMXXg

well, thats about it, talk to you all later