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Happy New Year! Google Doodle, fireworks welcome 2014

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Happy New Year! And what better way to start 2014 than with a Google Doodle, some cheap Champagne and a look at how the rest of the planet is already partying.

The Google Doodle as of this moment sums up how many Americans feel. Have you seen it yet? Chunky numerals 2, 0, 1, 3 are strutting their stuff on a blinking dance floor beneath a glittering disco ball. Meanwhile, No. 4 is off in the wings, waiting patiently for its moment to boot off No. 3 and take its place in the spotlight.

Kinda like the way office workers from New York to Los Angeles are waiting patiently for the moment when they can ditch their desks without raising the bossman’s ire, and get going to their New Year’s Eve destination, right?

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PHOTOS: 2014 New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world

Such 2014 New Year’s celebrations are already underway in regions of the world that are ahead of us, time-wise, as you can see from our photo gallery above.

You’ll notice that -- no surprise -- people around the globe have different ways of ringing out the old and ringing in the new.

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In Uruguay, for example, one unusual tradition sees office workers dumping water on passersby below. And in Tokyo, revelers at a New Year’s celebration release balloons into the air, with each symbolizing a wish for the year ahead.

Who has the most spectacular New Year’s celebration? IMHO it’s China, hand’s down. Check out the photos of the celebrations atop the Great Wall, and see if you don’t agree.

But some New Year’s celebrations are the same, no matter which corner of the globe. Fireworks, for one, are popular around much of the world. Likewise with free-flowing Champagne and sparkling wine.

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And so, it seems, is the need to ring in the New Year wearing funky, blingy eyewear.

Happy New Year!

How are you ringing in the New Year? Tweet me @renelynch (Me? I’m celebrating with lots of cheap bubbly...)

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