The Lawrence staff and friends gathered at The Sandbar last night for the annual Christmas party.
A fairy godmother (Peach, perhaps?) reached into the dark corners of the upstairs closet and managed to find some fabulous decorations. She transformed The Sandbar into an elegant beach bar complete with white tablecloths, candles, and flamingo and palm tree centerpieces.
All of our current staff members were there, and they brought an assortment of wives, girlfriends, roommates, moms, and friends with them. A few of our favorite customers were there, too. And of course a couple of random customers- we didn’t see the need to actually close the bar for the evening since there isn’t usually much business on Sunday night anyway. So when a trio of patrons arrived, we welcomed them into our party.
We had pizza from Wheat State and a big spread of other goodies: cheese and crackers, cheese balls, meatballs (made by Dave), and spicy cheese dip (also made by Dave). We like cheese, if you couldn’t tell.
It was a fun night. So fun, in fact, that there are too many stories for one post and I’m going to milk it all I can. Each day this week I’ll share something new about the party. The unique attire worn by the party-goers; the amazingly obnoxious gifts that were exchanged; and the drinking games that commenced later in the evening. We might even have a new poll in case you are tired of the one that’s up right now. (By the way, if you haven’t voted yet, please do so).
I have 190+ pictures to download and sort through and edit, so be patient. I’ll pick the best ones and add them to the Christmas party photo album as soon as I can.
Oh! And the best part about last night- the staff got to see the brand new Hurricane video for the very first time. Only Dave and I had seen the video before we showed it off last night. It was awesome to see every one laughing so hard, and crying in some cases. After the grand premiere in a few weeks, I’ll post the video here for the rest of the world to see.
Don’t forget to check in all week to see all the antics from our party!
Tomorrow: Fun and Festive Clothing!
Ugh! Hangover this morning. I think it was from the skunky cans of beer dredged from the basement. Can’t let beer go to waste! The trouble with tippy-cup is that everybody loses in the end.
I had fun, wish I could have arrived earlier and stayed longer, but alas had too many commitments all for the same day. Nothing like dating to screw up your holiday party plans! hehehe
you weren’t double booking the ladies on sunday were you, frank?
For the record, any crying that was done this year was not by me!
Drinking games and crying? Damn, sounds like I missed quite the party! Who cried this year?
Double booking? heh, I wish… I’m pretty awesome, but wel.. not that awesome. Girl that was supposed to come to the party with me wasn’t feeling well enough for a party, so we met up later for some tea.
Saw an after hours picture of Blair dressed like a the Christmas version of a chippendale dancer. Christmas will never be the same…
Yeah! Met later for some “tea”! Heh heh. Is that dirty? Can we be frank for a while?
i never saw any crying…unless it was the other team crying because we kicked their ASS in tippy cup!
No and No. The tea wasn’t “dirty” and I’m having too much fun being me to let anyone else take a turn! Sorry! 🙂