We've always tried to get most of the NYE's world traditions into our celebration. You know, stuff like black eyed peas, marzipan pigs, grapes, ring shaped food, etc. Unfortunately Megan and Matt were not able to attend this year. Since Lindsay had a solid hold on the chili, Nicole made some gluten free corn bread, Celeste brought a dip shaped like a ring, I brought grapes and made some deviled eggs.
We all arrived around 6 and figured out how to align ourselves properly in her driveway. We got all of our food ready and ate while we visited. Since some of us only see each other once a month we got caught up on what everyone was doing. I told everyone that Ben and I were going to Boise in February to go visit his friends. They all seemed like that was a weird time of the year to be doing that. I agreed.
After dinner Lindsay had been trying to play this game the last few times and finally we got to play it. It was a murder mystery escape room game that you can only play once. We all had to work together to move on to the next task before time ran out. Some of the tasks were hard and took all of our brain power to figure it out. The game itself took us about 2+ hours to finish but we prevailed!
We had some time to play another one and we all chose Code Names. The game is pretty simple but gets hard when you can't come up with a word that can satisfy as many cards as possible. Plus, different perspectives on how the cards can be interpreted can make it difficult to win. I enjoy being the guesser rather that they code giver.
Around 11 is when we started to prepare our marzipan pigs, our lemon pigs and the rest of our goodies we prepared. The lemon pigs were a new item this year. It consisted of a lemon, toothpicks for its legs, cloves for eyes and cutting the lemon skin just right for its mouth, ears and tail. Lastly, you inserted a penny into its mouth.
We got everything ready to go and the countdown began, 10.....9.....8.....7.....6.....5.....4.....3.....2.....1! Happy New Year! Just then I was so glad to be done with 2018. It was the most painful year I've ever had to date however, it was hard to let it go because that was the last year I will ever spend with my grandmother, who left us in August. The last half of the year was hard for us all. We all found our significant others and gave each other smooches.
I brought some sparklers that we didn't use in July so we all went outside (bundled up because it was a cold night) and we each did a few sparklers until we got cold. It was a blast.
We went back inside and a few of us stayed until almost 2 a.m. Ben and I were getting tired so we thanked Lindsay and Justin for hosting and we headed home. We didn't get to bed until 3.
I hope this year was better even though our family gatherings will always be sad without her.
Happy 2019!
Next Adventure: Weekend of Cutting Trees
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