What an amazing New Year's Party it was this past weekend! It started out great, as my new girlfriend Kayley came over and stayed at my house thursday night. It was an amazing first night together as a couple, we had mudslides and a cookie monster while watching Baby's Day Out, one of my favorite movies from my childhood, and we both enjoyed it just as much as I did those days. It was a short night, but a good night. The next morning we got up, and watched a bunch of wrestling matches and the evil dead 1 and 2. Those are some great movies, classic horror films! Then we went to Demenico's to eat as a family, it was a good first dinner with my girlfriend. Then we went back to my house and left for camp. It was a fun night, I got to see Mariah, Katelyn, the Holmans, Grant, Scot, and a bunch of other people. Later that night we played Extreme Mafia, which consists of a group of people gathering together in one room, blocking all sources of light into the room, and then having the narrator selecting an appropriate number of "mafia" whose identity would be unknown to the other players. Then the light in the room was turned off, and all of the players would wander around in the dark room until they identified a dead body on the flood, which was the result of the mafia pretending to cut their victims throat. Once this happened, the lights would be turned back on, and then the remaining players had to decide on who they thought the mafia was. This continued until either the mafia gained an advantage, or the townspeople got rid of all the mafia. We played several rounds of this game, with Scot unfortunately running into a pole in the room, which was ironic since he was a mafia member, so he used this to get people off his trail. Then we played pong, which was also quite entertaining, especially since I actually was halfway decent at it this time, which was surprising given my previous track record playing this at camp. Katelyn and Jon were still the best, as they won all three times they played. I hate to think how much sugar was consumed doing that!!!! After that, most people went to bed.
The next day, however, was another story, as Kayley and I had to get up really early in order to drive back to my house to pick up my white elephant gift, and for Kayley to find a gift at Wal-Mart. Then we got back to a really big breakfast made for us by Sarah. Then we sat and ate a lot of food, and afterward everyone broke off to do their own thing, with Grant and Sarah setting up the chapel for our New Year's Eve Party, Katelyn and Jon going to buy their white elephants gifts, and the rest of us just hanging out waiting for the time for the party to start. By 7:00, the rest of the guests started to show up: Megan and Josie, Tim Ulven and Sarah Hood, Lauren, Stuart, and Evin. Of course, being camp, naturally things didn't start on time, since camp time is slower than normal time, so the party didn't really start until 7:45. But when it did start, boy did we all have a great time!!! So Grant and Sarah spent a lot of time rigging the chapel to resemble the movie Inception. They had an elaborate tunnel entrance, chairs set up upside down hanging from the ceiling, floating orbs, broken ones on the tables, nice candles on the tables, and over 100 bucks worth of chinese. In order to keep up with the theme, each person was given a "token" in order to differentiate between a dream and reality. Mine was a metal basketball hoop ornament. So then we sat down to eat all of the food that Sarah bought for us, which was served in three courses, which required each person/couple to rotate tables so everyone could talk to everyone. It was a good idea because everyone at the party did not know everyone. Then we played a camper favorite, bingo, which was a good time. Then we played mafia with cards, which is the original way to play the game. I won't explain it, because that takes too long. After that was the gift exchange, which was a lot of fun. I ended up with a copy of the movie The Holiday. (there's a story behind this movie that may or may not be told later.) Then people either left, went to bed, or stayed up the whole night watching old movies ( grant, sarah, scot, and me). Then my girlfriend Kayley, Katelyn, Jonathan, Hannah, and Lydia all went to Michigan for a few days. All and all it was a great time!!!!!!!!!!!! Next time I will post about my new relationship with Kayley, my angel :) Thanks for reading this long and rambling entry!
