Ah, New Years Eve at sea. Course, there were a couple of bad things about it. One is that not surprisingly it was a formal night. The second was that something we really hadn’t thought about before the cruise was that New Years Eve was the night before our Panama Canal transit. Not exactly what I’d call the ideal situation. 
The evening was great though. Lots of people gathered up top, and Princess handed out noise makers, hats, and streamers. (Of course, there was enough wind that you couldn’t really wear the hats without them blowing away). Brian, the shore excursion manager, was dressed up as Father Time, while Sammy (one of the cruise staff) must have drawn the short straw because he got stuck playing the baby new year. Basically we stuck around for the count down to new years, then headed down to go to sleep. Unfortunately, this was one of the nights that a lot of kids were running around making a lot of noise in the hallways.