Plan Ahead --- Be Safe!

If your planned celebration for New Year's includes champagne or other adult beverages, plan ahead to get home safely. Have the party at your house, plan to sleep over, designate a driver, or just don't drink.

Leanna and I have, for many years, enjoyed sparkling non-alcoholic grape juice for New Years (two bottles of which are chilling down right now) and we find it to have all of the "bite" and fun of the real stuff, and (if we try to cook at the same time) we get just as silly and drunk as everybody else, without the hangover, car crash, DUI ticket, fine, jail, and other buzz killing events.