I always find some way to escape the typical festivities, and this year I had the perfect excuse—I wanted to be one of the first people to buy legal weed in America.
The New York Aquarium is calling itself the Ascarium for this celebration, which focuses on ocean spookiness, often neglected in typical Halloween festivities.
In addition to our typical yuletide festivities, we were blessed to celebrate my in-law's 60th wedding anniversary two days after Christmas and our own anniversary a week after the new year started.
Hyung-Jin does most of the sermonizing at a typical two-hour festivity, just as he does at regular Sunday services in a rip-roaring style that has congregations cheering wildly.
A few days after we meet, Michel throws a weeklong celebration for his wedding; in typical Gloria fashion, the festivities include a private party for friends, cocktails at Panorama Bar (where Michel and his husband first met seven years ago), and a big wedding bash at SchwuZ, with DJs spinning electro, pop and Middle-Eastern beats.
The Elevator Repair performance wasn't the only idiosyncratic element to the festivities, which included the typical array of readings and exhibitions: over the weekend the players participating in an interactive scavenger hunt were allowed to spend the night in the library piecing together clues based on the collection.
This year's festivities last a little bit longer than the typical Memorial Day weekend run.
To answer the FFQ, respondents reported the average number of days per week, in a typical week, in which each listed product was consumed (ie, excluding festivities).
The favourite to win this year was a horse called I Want Revenge, but on race morning he turned up with a "hot spot" in one ankle and was scratched from the race.In the end this year's festivities brought the city about $105m: down from $121m in a typical year, but better than organisers had expected.
A typical though entertaining cast of characters — animals, babies, pop stars — all made their appearances, lending a lighthearted spirit to the annual festivities.
("Baldoria" means "festivity" in Italian).
