We stayed home because there were so many fireworks that our dog, Darlene, was going nuts early in the day. By midnight she was just trembling. Her little buddy, Bella, generally isn't afraid of noise, but think she picked it up from Darlene, her not so fearless leader.
It was almost a non alcoholic celebration. We had what we thought was a nice bottle of sparkling wine, but it was awful. I think we had gotten it at Whole Foods, or else someone had given it to us. SR had a glass and a half, I couldn't even get down a half glass of the stuff, then we threw out the rest. Blech. It was too late to chill anything else. At least our snacks were good.