When the game finally came on, the Browns actually put together a really nice scoring drive on their first possession. We all kinda got a little worried...then we remembered it was Manziel and it wasn't going to last. We were right. The Seahawks dominated the rest of the game and the nachos were delicious.
With a little over an hour to get ready and luckily we took showers that morning to avoid trying to hurry to get there. I went downstairs, did my hair and make up and put on my dress. Ben got his suit on and did his hair. He really needed a haircut. Trish, Amy and Brad left and we followed behind them. We needed to get there soon or we weren't going to get a decent table.
Last year Ben and I weren't able to go due to our jobs. It was great to be able to go with his mom to see her get a 15-year service award. Again, it was in one of the buildings on the Puyallup Fairgrounds. We found a parking spot, grabbed the umbrella (just in case) and joined Amy, Trish and Brad at one of the festive tables inside. This time they decorated it with small boxes of holiday goodies, chocolates, cookies etc., and glitter!! OMG! Glitter sucks! It gets everywhere and even in places you didn't know you had! It's another one of those "gifts that keep on giving."
We got drinks, had some small chit chat with one another and some of Trish's co-workers and waited for dinner to be served. Meanwhile, if you were a kid under 12, you got to see Santa and get a free gift...I wanna be under 12. Dinner was served about a half hour later. We had prime rib, fish, pasta, potatoes, veggies, bread and salad. There was pizza, spaghetti and chicken fingers for the kids. When we were done eating dessert was served, that included cookies and brownies. I was so full I didn't need any.
Ben wanted to do something afterwards and since Star Wars just came out two days ago, that's what he wanted to do. A part of me wanted to see it that night but another part of me was like, it's Sunday and I gotta get up at 6:30 the next morning, why can't we see it on Saturday? I gave in, we bought the tickets for a 9:40 showing up the hill. Ugh, tomorrow was going to be a long day.
Korum did their awards and Trish was called up to receive her certificate and to be talked about since she's been at the company for 15 years. Everything they said was positive. She really needed an assistant or a part-time associate because she works too much and can never seem to get ahead when she takes vacation time.
After the awards ceremony and gathering up all of our stuff we took some pictures. Another one of the decorations they had was a 9 or 10 foot tall nutcracker made out of balloons, a perfect background for a couple of pictures.
We said our goodbyes and I could not wait to get out of my dress. I was so cold. We changed as fast as we could outside and inside of the car. Ben laughed at me the entire time. I wanted out of my strapless bra and into my comfy one but just then the people next to us in the truck showed up and I was mostly shirtless. Ben laughed harder. I had to wait about five minutes before the couple finally left to finish getting dressed. It was nice to finally have a shirt, a vest and a coat on along with socks and my sneakers. We drove up the hill and found a parking spot at the cinemas.
We weren't sure how busy it was going to be so we showed up an hour before the movie began. We had our QR code scanned and we were given our tickets. We bought a thing of popcorn and a drink and gave our tickets to the guy and he directed us to the correct theater. He said there is a line starting at the bench because the theater wasn't done being cleaned yet. We walked down the hall and was surprised the line was two people. "Wow, what a huge line! I don't think we will get very good seats!" Ben and the other two people laughed. We were seated right away and we plopped ourselves in the center of the theater. We ate our popcorn and watched the movie, which actually began at 10, after all the previews.
I thought the movie was pretty good. It followed the storyline, at least as far as what I knew about the franchise, but there was one part I did not like. I will not write about it just because some people haven't seen the movie yet as this is published. It was nice to see characters from the original trilogy (episodes 4, 5 and 6) and how they've aged. Ben has seen all of them prior to this movie being filmed and I have not. I've seen the original trilogy when I was a kid but avoided the prequel trilogy (episodes 1, 2 and 3) just because I wasn't really interested in watching them and I heard they were terrible. When I did watch them I was right...they were terrible. The only thing worth watching them for was the story. I didn't know how everything fit in and now I did.
We got out at midnight and it takes an hour to get home from Puyallup. I was exhausted and went to be as soon as I could. 6:30 comes awfully fast.
Next Adventure: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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