Happy New Year! We’re back. Hope everyone had a great holiday break. Looking forward to to 2016! In the meantime, here’s our studio dog’s resolutions for the New Year.
Some fun facts about 2016
+ The U.N. General Assembly has designated 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (a grain legume that is high in protein and nutrition)
+ US Presidential Elections! If you like more drama than West Wing can really manage
+ Leap Year
+ Year of the Red Fire Monkey
+ The dates 04/04/2016, 06/06/2016, 08/08/2016, 10/10/2016 and 12/12/2016 are all Mondays
+ Rio de Janeiro is hosting the Summer Olympics. Have you seen their awesome logo?
+ Pot might become legal in more countries this year – esp Canada, Mexico and Australia.
More trivia!
New Year’s used to be celebrated in March by ancient Babylon, around 4,000 years ago – not January 1. It was an 11 day festival celebrating the beginning of spring and crops being planted for the year to come. It only became a January 1 event 400 years ago by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, when he declared that January 1 would be New Year’s Day. Since then, it’s become an event for most of the world: although the Lunar New Year events tend to be larger holidays in Asia.