Cheers!

Cheers!!

I realize my last couple of entries were quite brief so, in an attempt to rectify that, I will give a further description of what New Year's Eve at Karin and Nick's is like. We originally made plans to go out to eat, but cancelled them when I learned that my Packers were playing a Sunday night game. That was good because I was beginning to feel slightly gypped by the NFL for not moving one of our games to the preferred primetime slot. This freed up the afternoon for Nancy, Nick and Jeff to tour Cabella's and Erin and I to look at old photographs at home, followed by the head-to-head Trains marathon that I soundly beat Erin at.

At 6:45, Nancy and I prepared platters of food and carried them down to the basement to eat during the game. Everyone was primed and ready for the game to start. To my immense satisfaction, it was a great game for the Packers - they held Grossman to 2 completions and 3 interceptions (2 returned for TDs ) in the first half and Lovie pulled poor Rex in the second half. The Packers ended up winning the battle (as was previously posted) and then we got down to the meat of the evening: playing Cranium Pop 5 while waiting for midnight.

Waiting for midnight

Erin wisely split the teams up into boys against girls and off we went. Pop 5 is an interesting type of Cranium. The non-guessing team assigns points to each of the things you can do (sculpting, drawing, acting, etc just like the regular game) and then the other team must pick one to do before they look at what the answer was. The funniest was when Nick picked "Humdinger" for fad and had to do "Kool-Aid Man". The ladies were about falling out of their chairs laughing because he did hum "Oh, yeah!" perfectly but alas the guys never got it and the girls managed to win all three, guessing such things as "ShrinkyDinks" (charades), "Pet Rock" (drawing), "Wonderbra" (sculpting), "Tickle Me Elmo" (charades), "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (drawing) and "Seinfeld" (charades) within the allotted time (note the absence of humdingers in there. Not really a coincidence). In all three, the guys were ahead until the end, when the ladies suddenly jumped in and beat them!

In between the second and third games, we took a break to watch the replay of the ball drop on TV and toast in the new year. We also discovered that our basement carpet is stain-guarded - the red wine came right up! After the third game, we played a game of Captain Insano Monopoly before deciding to call it a year and going to bed.

New Year's Eve was also memorable because we got the first significant snowfall of the year, making everyone glad we had cancelled our dinner plans and could sit at home comfortably eating leftovers. It nicely stopped around 7 pm however, so that everyone could get home safely on the first, freeing up Karin and Nick to drag the dead tree to the curb and then collapse in exhaustion. Happy New Year 2007!!