When is it? An extra day is added to the month of February every four years. This year, Leap Day is on Wednesday, February 29.
Why we need Leap Day: Usually, our year is 365 days long. Except that it's not: A full cycle of seasons is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds long, or about 365.25 days. Over time, the extra quarter of a day adds up, and without Leap Day, the calendar would be one day out of sync with the seasons. After 30 years, it would be about a week off, and after 100 years, it would be nearly a month off.
A Melbourne woman has successfully sprung a leap year day proposal on her unsuspecting boyfriend at a restaurant overlooking the Yarra River.
Belinda Squires had staff at the Italian restaurant in Southbank insert a note into the lunch menu before handing it to her boyfriend of three years, Jason Gately, shortly after middayThe note read: "Happy leap year my darling Jason, you look lovely today, I love you very much, will you marry me, Belinda xxx".
Ms Squires, 42, said she just wanted to give her man a "special surprise" and "share it with everybody".
"I thought, he's always surprising me, and bringing me gifts home and flowers for no reason," she said.
"And he only has to celebrate [this occasion] once every four years."
SO
How are you celebrating or spending 29 February 2012?
I snuck around the house to see what everyone else is doing.....
as usual.....reading his dailies and checking his FB
meanwhile down at the living room...
he is chilling out, still have not got out of his work clothes,
playing a spot of Ipad game
she?
studying for her prelims next week
studying for her prelims next week
Me?
it's my KOREAN soap opera hour...or HOURS!!!
Wow! Legs galore!
Girls' Generation!!!!
29 February may come only once in 4 years
but life goes on as usual for us!!!!!
