Happy New Year 2018!

Update:  As of 9:30 a.m. Chicago time, Happy 2018 New Year to Samoa, the Christmas Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Tokyo, Seoul, and North Korea.        

Just a few hours before 2018 is here!

The first places to welcome 2018 will be...

The first places to welcome 2018 will be Samoa and Christmas Island and the small country of Kiribati (the former Gilbert Islands). The New Year is coming to those small countries in the middle of the Pacific in (as of 12:33 a.m. Chicago time) in 3 hours and 26 minutes, which is 20 hours before we will welcome 2018 in Chicago, in the Central Time Zone.  So when we awake on New Year's Eve, part of the world will already be experiencing 2018!

You can watch the world turn to 2018 at this link:

Time left before the New Year around the globe!


Actually, the whole Time and Date website is full of interesting tidbits.  I'm surprised I never came across it before.

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Happy New Year From Paris!!

No, I'm not in Paris for the New Year!  But it sounds beautiful!

                                  

Happy New Year in Paris - The place to be is the Champs-Elysees. Around 9pm, people gather at the famous street and start to count down to the New Year. Around midnight you can watch the Eiffel Tower’s light show. Montmartre is another fantastic place to ring in the New Year as it is elevated and has spectacular views of the entire Paris skyline. While Paris doesn’t typically have a fireworks show, there are still great parties and many people light off "personal" fireworks near the Champs-Elysees. 

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