Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year to all!
Last night was spent with our friends - the way New Years Eve should be. Em and Derek had everyone over (this has become a tradition over the past three years). Derek did all the cooking. Em was in charge of "decor". She decided on a Peppermint theme. Why a "theme" was necessary, I'm still not sure, but it was fun. They served chocolate/Peppermint Martinis. Interesting, but i only felt the need to partake of one. I switched to just my regular Grey Goose and Tonic afterwards. Not like it was a big drunken brawl... just not interested in that. all in all, a lovely, low key evening with our closest friends.
We played a game (another one of Em's 'things' - she feels the need to play some sort of board game at all her parties) called Encore. it was really fun... let's see... how to explain... roll the dice.. move the piece... land on a color... pull the card and read the word on the card. Then you have to sing a song with the word from the card on it. make sense? the rules say that you have to come up with 8 consecutive words in the song and you MUST get the melody correct. so for instance, the word is "Gal". So the first team comes up with, "Buffalo GALs won't ya come out tonight, come out tonight?". then the second team comes up with, "five foot two, eyes of blue... has anybody seen my GAL?" seems really easy until you're in the heat of it. they also have a 'category" category. so instead of giving you a word, they give you a category like, "School Songs" or Songs About Children". anyhow. suffice to say it was hysterical - especially in a room filled with Musical Theater types. if nothing else, the voices were great!
So... like i said, pretty low key NYE. Hopefully this year will follow suit.
Last night was spent with our friends - the way New Years Eve should be. Em and Derek had everyone over (this has become a tradition over the past three years). Derek did all the cooking. Em was in charge of "decor". She decided on a Peppermint theme. Why a "theme" was necessary, I'm still not sure, but it was fun. They served chocolate/Peppermint Martinis. Interesting, but i only felt the need to partake of one. I switched to just my regular Grey Goose and Tonic afterwards. Not like it was a big drunken brawl... just not interested in that. all in all, a lovely, low key evening with our closest friends.
We played a game (another one of Em's 'things' - she feels the need to play some sort of board game at all her parties) called Encore. it was really fun... let's see... how to explain... roll the dice.. move the piece... land on a color... pull the card and read the word on the card. Then you have to sing a song with the word from the card on it. make sense? the rules say that you have to come up with 8 consecutive words in the song and you MUST get the melody correct. so for instance, the word is "Gal". So the first team comes up with, "Buffalo GALs won't ya come out tonight, come out tonight?". then the second team comes up with, "five foot two, eyes of blue... has anybody seen my GAL?" seems really easy until you're in the heat of it. they also have a 'category" category. so instead of giving you a word, they give you a category like, "School Songs" or Songs About Children". anyhow. suffice to say it was hysterical - especially in a room filled with Musical Theater types. if nothing else, the voices were great!
So... like i said, pretty low key NYE. Hopefully this year will follow suit.
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