New Year's Eve Inventions and Discoveries

In roughly chronological order:

-New Tradition: From 11 pm to 12 am on night of New Year's Eve we abandoned use of certain words in order to reflect and remember sufferings of past year. Forbidden words are: "a," "an," "the" and "article". Last word is included because game is too easy if you can easily explain rules. Fun is in challenge.


- New Appetizer combos: Chicken fingers in salsa con queso. Good. Potatoe chip, ranch dip and cherry tomato canape. Better. Champagne with candy cane. Horrible. Just horrible.

- New Bonding Exercise: Land of 1,000 secrets. Step one, each participant builds a separate fort out of blankets and pillows. Step two, serve yourself a drink. Step three, enter your fort with drink and begin confessing. Ali you are a genius.