Ringing in the ‘Noon Year’

Welcome to 2011! It’s a brand-spanking-shiny New Year that I’m sure is going to be full of all sorts of surprises and adventures!

So what were you doing on New Years Eve? I have no doubt that most of you went to some sort of party with all of your friends and families. If you’ve been to Eureka! before, and I’m sure that most of you have, you should know that us Enablers love nothing more than to have a good party, and for New Year’s eve 2010, that’s exactly what we did: we threw a party.

Now because Eureka! isn’t open at midnight for the ‘real’ New Year, we decided to call ours a ‘Noon’ Years Eve party, and celebrated at exactly 12 noon when Archimedes took his midday bath. We invited all of our friends to join in with the festivities and my word, did they come.

The Town Square in the Living and Working Together gallery was jam packed with boys, girls, mums, dads, and grandparents all waiting to welcome the New Year in. Both Enabler Gillian and I were leading the big countdown to 2011 and with the help of everyone who came along it went with a real bang! Hundreds of balloons fell from the balcony, children jumped on bubble wrap to imitate fireworks, and party poppers were fired. It was brilliant fun.

Enjoying a bubble wrap stomp!

But the fun didn’t stop there, oh no. Immediately following the celebrations in the Town Square, I was joined by Enabler Becky and we threw a disco in the theatre where all our visitors could make there very own funky New Years hats, let their hair down and have a good old boogie.




Now, you might not have been able to join us this year at Eureka!, but is there some special way that you celebrate the New Year?

If you did come down to join us, or if you had a party of your own, we hope that you had just as much fun as we did. So from all of us here at Eureka!: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
  
Ben Guilfoyle is an Outreach Enabler at Eureka! The National Children's Museum