My husband and I hosted a New Year's Eve Party for several friends most of which live in our neighborhood.  Those invited are all close in age and have children close in age.  Therefore, we decided that a night away from the kiddos was greatly inorder. The invitations were delivered well in advance to ensure that babysitters could be secured.  Since several guests were also neighbors, a few people shared sitters which made it fun for the kids too. A night with their friends away from mom and dad. The inviations read " A New Year's Eve Party is sure to please.  A night without children is how we should be.  Apple juice will be replaced with wine and sippy cups will give way to the beer stein.  Bring a bottle of wine disguised for a wine tasting game with a prize.  We will vote on the worst and the best and we will drink the rest. A night of games, friends and good cheer is how we should ring in the New Year."  Several party goers brought more than one bottle of wine. A thought to be good bottle of wine and a known to be bad bottle of wine. Some made funny labels for their bottles to cover the real labels and others put the bottles in pretty bags. We also had brown paper bags if needed.  Upon arrival, the wines were given a number and placed on the kitchen island.  Score sheets were made on the computer.  They consisted of a place for the wine number and a 1 to 5 ranking with the 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. We also included several adjectives used to describe wine, once you ranked the wine you circled the adjective which you thought best described the wine. There was also a place to write in your own adjective if needed. Once completed, the score sheets were placed in a cup behind each wine bottle. I had several small plastic cups for the wine tasting.  Each guest sampled the wine at their leisure. After about 3 hours, the wine tasting was officially closed and the ballets tallied. Each wine's scores were added up and then divided by the number of ballots it got since not every wine was sampled by every guest. The labels were revealed and the winner and loser announced. We also read aloud the adjectives circled and written in for each of the wines.  It was very interesting that the majority of guests new nothing about wine tasting, but the adjectives circled for the wines were very similar.  Maybe we know a bit more than we thought!  We had a tie for the best wine so the two contenders played a mean game of "Hang In There", a child's game, to determine the ultimate winner. The prize for the best wine was a bottle of wine recycled into a cheese tray and the worst prize winner recieved a bottle of really bad wine (hopefully worse than the one they brought). We had other games set out for guests to play included the child's game mentioned above, Guesstures, Jinga, etc. A guest brought their karakoe machine which was much more fun than imagined.  We had plenty of food to eat and a variety of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages. We had hats, noise makers and poppers to ring in the New Year. I didn't have enough champagne glasses, so I went and purchased champagne flutes from the dollar store.  They were pretty and cheap and could easily be thrown away after the party if storage was a problem.  A neighbor who likes any excuse to shoot off fireworks, put on a fireworks show at midnight as we toasted with champagne and kissed our significant other. Several guests left right after midnight, but several continued on playing games and singing.  As each couple left they were given and can of black-eyed peas to consume on New Year's Day for good luck in the coming year.  It was a great party, primarily because we had great guests.  Everyone had a great. We will definitely be hosting this party again next year to ring in 2004.