New Years Eve 12-31-2009

We spent New Years Eve hanging out as a family.

The evening didn't go quite as planned, but only due to minor hiccups.

T & the girls thoughtfully rented a movie for us all to watch and enjoy together (Night at the Museum #2 - Night at the Smithsonian) and we could have a nice dinner at Olive Garden. Plus, we planned on playing some board games as well.

First stop: Dinner.
Upon our arrival at Olive Garden, we quickly realized that our hunger exceeded our patience. The line was just too long, so after a bit of debate, discussion and compromising, we downgraded to our second option: Pizza Factory.

It turns out that Pizza Factory isn't even open on New Years Eve. We hadn't considered a third option, but managed to end up at Round Table pizza, which was going to be open for at least another hour. Good enough.

Alexia entertained us with some jokes from her soft drink cup:
Q: How do you fix a broken Pizza?
A: Tomato Paste!

Q: Who was the roundest knight in the Knights of the Round Table?
A: Sir Cumference!

Alexia also made up one of her own:
Q: What kind of pizza do cats love?
A: PepPurrrrroni of course.

After dinner we returned home to play about 10 rounds of Train Dominoes. The girls didn't remember playing this before so we taught them how and they quickly picked up the strategy. Most of us had fun, most of the time.







FLASHBACK to Thursday Evening:
Just the other day we pulled out the game "LIFE" and played it after dinner. If you've ever played that game, you probably remember you get a little car with six holes in it to accommodate the player, the spouse and up to four children. The rules, printed on the box, circa 1983, state that "If you get more than four children, just crowd them in as you do in real life." Remember those days?

After our game of Dominoes, we put in the movie... only to discover that the DVD box was the right box, but the movie in the box was not the right movie. The movie was Night at the Museum Part 1... which we had all seen before.

Oh well... we watched it anyway, and it was still entertaining.

Before we knew it, midnight was almost upon us.

We watched 'the ball drop' in NYC and the kids were both disappointed. It was not at all what they expected as far as 'the ball dropping'. I'm pretty sure I felt the same way the first time I saw it.

We quickly switched the channel to watch the Space Needle fireworks before shuffling everyone off to bed.

Congratulations to Tanya for staying up to midnight this year!

My New Years Resolution is to get invited to a New Years Eve party next year.

We hope you all had a safe New Year's Eve and we hope that 2010 works out to be a fantastic year for all of us.

~E

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