Party party party

12 December

You know Christmas is in the air when we have back to back parties.

Party A: At Jeremy's boss' house
It was awesome.. her house that is. She and her husband bought a piece of land and built one of the most fantastic house I've even been in. The highlight of the party / get together is a gift exchange we had called WHITE ELEPHANT and here is how it goes:

1 - Everyone brings a white elephant - a gift you have received but have no use for for or something you bought on a whim and is now taking up space in your house.

2 - Everyone put their gift in a pile

3 - Number tags are distributed to everyone... (to make it more interesting - there are double numbers in the bag!) - THE HIGHER YOUR NUMBER, THE BETTER

4 - MC will then call out the number in order e.g 1

5 - If you have number 1, you grab a gift and you need to open it in front of everyone (so that they can get a good look)

6 - If you have number 2, you can choose to either (a) grab a gift or (b) steal the gift from someone who had already open their gift... in this case, number 1.

What did I get? I got an apple, a snail and a finger puppet.. and Jeremy got a piggy bank.. hahah - we were the first two to pick our gifts as we had to rush to another party! BUMMER!!!!!!!!!!


We ate the apple....

We ended the night by taking a 20-minute walk back to the apartment (in the freezziinngg cold) where we had another party with our neighbours... So we were stuffed, cold, aching from the walk and slept..