Last night, Tyler and I had an opportunity to attend his CHS work Christmas party. This is the 5th year in a row that we've attended, and we were surprised to find out last night that they've had them for 6 years now, so we've pretty much been there to see it all...and we have seen it all. We were commenting on the changes that had taken place over the 5 years. We now have almost 3 children whereas we started with just one (an obvious statement, I know. Most people start with just one). The funny part was seeing the difference in other people. Marriages, divorces, new boyfriends, new girlfriends, new identities...there's history there, and in a place we probably didn't think we'd witness much history in when we attended the first year. We had a great time last night at Gasoline Alley at Heritage Park. I chose to not bring a camera, so we have no evidence of our attendance, but there were a lot of pictures taken of us, by people I don't really know, so I'm not sure if I'll ever see them. We sat at what we thought was the best table, #25, until we realized that there were only 26 tables and the DJs were going to call people up to the buffet line by table number...in order. We got our meal just as they were announcing that the dance was going to begin in a few minutes. Fortunately, our table was right beside the dessert table, so when everyone else was in line for turkey dinner, we sneaked (or is it snuck? we debated that question a bit over our dinner) over and got some goodies. You only live once, right?
The best part of the evening was our tablemates. We had great conversation and A LOT of laughs. I told Tyler on the way home that this was the first year that time really flew at the party for me, and I was surprised to look at my watch and see that it was 11:30pm. At one point, we were saving seats for some friends that hadn't arrived yet. Another couple, who only bore a resemblance to our friends in the fact that they were male and female, came in and we waved them over, thinking it was our friends. When they got closer, everyone realized we didn't know they, and they awkwardly realized they didn't know any of us either. We did our best to pretend that we were actually waving at someone else behind them and they shuffled past. We ate our meal pretty quickly, as they service staff was trying to clear plates only moments after lonely table 25 had gotten their meal, and got ready for the dance. Ah, the dance. The music was a hodge-podge of awkward and cliche-filled songs that didn't do much for the crowd, except clear it out of the room pretty quickly. Maybe that's what they were hoping for. The number that really cleared the floor was, "Baby Got Back", but we still stuck it out, until the DJ played "The Rose" by Bette Midler to cap off his repertoire and then packed up his speakers. We decided to pack it up too, and head home. It was a pretty awesome night and very easy to attend a function when you have great babysitters at home. Thanks Sam and Matt. I know my kids loves playing swords all night. Today we're tired (who has a Christmas party on a Wednesday night?), but we had a great time. Also, a big thanks to the support staff and UofC department that has been very good to Tyler and our family over the past 5 years. It's been a pleasure to be associated with them.
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