Day 20, Ayeyarwady River: New Year's Eve.

(Posted by Andrew about the events of Dec 31; Ayeyarwady River, Myanmar)

Today we got the day off from touring so we had some time to rest up for the New Year's Eve party. (We're getting old, but we're still well below the mean demographic on this ship so they probably need it more than we do.)

Not much to tell here, standard New Year's Eve fancy dress party: dinner followed by drinks and dancing up on the top deck. A mild surprise was that we managed to make it to midnight, since we normally just give up and go to bed. The real surprise was that nobody managed to injure themselves or others with the rather large handheld fireworks they gave us all.

Wisely, they only played one song after midnight then sent us all to bed; we had to be up bright and early the next day to do more touring.