Odds are good that most of us will greet 2026 pretty much the same way we greeted 2025, with friends and fireworks. But what are we all supposed to do all day while we’re waiting for midnight?
If you are really ambitious and traffic is light, you could greet the new year five times on Dec. 31 – noon at the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens, at 5:30 p.m. in Fernandina Beach, at 8:30 p.m. in St. Augustine, 9:30 p.m. in Vilano Beach, then at midnight in downtown Jacksonville.
Your other options include a circus, an opera and a comedian who stands 4-foot-4. Sounds like a fun way to close out ‘25…