New Year's Eve

Katken photographed First Night, including this ice sculpture in front of Trinity Church.
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Greg Mackay photographed ice penguins by the Aquarium. Matt Conti videoed the fireworks over Boston Harbor.

My favorite parts of the First Night Grand Procession are always the unusual outfits and the giant puppets, because you just don't tend to see stuff like that in your average parade.
Hope you have a great New Year's!


Seth Gitlell photographed the giant Venus under construction in Copley Square today. Finn posts another view.
Karin's New Year's Eve started with a pair of broken eyeglasses and ended with a dead mouse in the washing machine.
Katken photographed the Grand Procession down Boylston Street tonight.
16WadeSt photographed an ice sculpture in progress:
Paul Keleher also took in the sculptures:
The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble at 3 p.m. is not to be, FirstNight tweets.
Drink at a Cambridge establishment on New Year's Eve and get a free cab voucher (for the first $35 worth of your ride, at any rate, but the tip is not included).
Although the afternoon performance is still canceled, the evening performance at the Church with the Giant Crack will go on, but with a piano, not the organ, FirstNight tweets.
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