Wow what a Christmas that was, I hope Santa Clause brought you a snow shovel over 51 inches at my house. This must be the first time in living memory that lower mainlanders have welcomed rain.  Those of you who wanted a white Christmas that’s it for 20 years or 50. Let’s hope the New Year is better from this point on.

I got to thinking about all the Happy New Years I got while shoveling snow. I know of at least 2 other dates that are celebrated as New Years day  The Julian (Ukrainian) one on Jan 13^th, you really should be in Saskatchewan for that one and of course the Lunar (Chinese) New Year so I thought I would look up some others. I was surprised to find that we can celebrate a New Year over 100 times in 2009 every month there are some New Year days.

Go to  http://www.celebratetoday.com/newyears.html  for a complete list. I was surprised then I thought I must find out where all the different cultural centers are, nothing like a New Years eve party every 3^rd day.

Well I wish you all the best for 2009 and Happy New Year, when ever your day is.