New Years Eve - Welcome 2009

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Once again, we had some friends over for New Years Eve. Why go out and deal with how is out for the evening! We would much rather have a nice evening at home with friends! This year, in addition to the usual gang (Beth, Chad and Dan), Bill (a co-worker) and his wife Sarah joined us, and then Nicole (another co-worker) also stopped by for a while.

It was definitely an interesting evening! There was no shortage of food, as I once again, went overboard on the food! BBQ Meatballs, homemade chicken strips with various dipping sauces, the usual chips, dips and cracker, plus a HUGE variety of John's homemade chocolates!

With the chocolates, it was really hard to say which ones were the biggest hit... Bill and Sarah loved the chocolate coated coffee beans, but Beth and Chad... not so much! On the other hand there was only 1 of the s'mores left (marshmallows dipped in chocolate and then rolled in graham cracker crumbs), a larger amount of turtles were gone, I think ALL of the homemade peanut better Twix were gone as well as about half of the dipped potato chips! Needless to say, there was not a shortage of chocolate!

There was also not a shortage of beverage... one would think that we drink all the time with the variety of alcohol in our cupboard. We just have varying tastes and have started a grand collection of flavors. Some bottles we bought just to try a specific drink and then it sat there. So we were on a mission to maybe have some of those almost empty bottles become empty. As a way to make it easier to decide what to drink. John pulled everything out of the cupboard and turned the counter into a bar - it was a well stocked bar! I never realized just how much was up in the cupboard until it was all taken down! I think we need to use what we have before we buy anymore!!

The entertainment for the evening once again centered around Wii... upstairs it was a variety of games including Raving Rabbids, Redneck Jamboree, Bowling and more. The basement however had been turned into a rock concert as RockBand got a great workout!

Beth and Nicole had their own laughs playing pinball and pool. At first Beth was very confused as to why the 8 ball was white instead of black. That was, until I told her that was the set of pool balls that glowed under the black light. So that brought a whole new dimension to the game! Nicole even brought out the "Yooper Cue" - made out of a long stick with all the bark shaved off! Straightness was not high on the detail list when this cue was made - controlling your shot is a bit difficult!

Of course the highlight of the evening was the countdown to midnight... I was just really glad that I did not pass out the noise makers until right before midnight! From 11:53 until at least 12:05, it was a constant stream of noise from the party horns! I don't think the cats came out of hiding until morning!

The only drawback to having a NYE party at your house is the clean-up that you get to wake up to in the morning! What a great way to start off the new year... cleaning and dishes. But of course, we had to have fun with that! John pulled out the ice shot glasses that he had made for the occasion and figured that they would make a great subject for some photo's... Yeah, I know, big surprise there... John taking pictures of weird things! But I have to admit, they turned out really cool!

Surprisingly enough, even with all the food that we had the night before, there was not a lot of leftovers!

To see a full presentation of the photo's from the evening, go here