My wife and I went to bed at 10pm last night. We woke up at 8 am. It's just another day.
Hah, lucky! Around here you would have been woken up around 23:30 when everyone started shooting fireworks and you wouldn't have caught any more sleep until 02:00 or so the year after.
A giant firework exploded on the ground (or 6 feet in the air) where me and my friends went on New Years Eve. Tousands of people (including me) were standing basically right below it. Even got a pic of it: http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/8697/fyr834.jpg