NYE - 2008

So this year my roommate Summer, friend Kerstin, & I decided to take matters into our own hands, and we hosted a party for New Years Eve. We often host game nights at our house, so we began searching for a way to throw the ultimately fun new years eve game night.

Well when ordinary games did not amount to enough, we ended up deciding on designing a fabulous new years eve, middle of winter, photo scavenger hunt. After much discussion we had a plan. We decided to have people separate themselves into groups of 3-5, each group would pick a mascot (that must appear in every photo) and a team name. Then we came up with the list of things people needed to take pictures of. We picked 5 must-have pictures that each team had to get before they could move on to the rest of the list. 'The rest of the list' included about 38 items that took the teams all over town and into all sorts of different situations. Of course, because it was new years eve, we made sure to mention several times that our participants should be smart about things, not drive like crazy people, and not get arrested.

The event itself turned out to be as fabulous as it possibly could be. We had 6 teams and a total of 27 people. What really made it great for me was that summer, kerstin, and I got to participate as well, we didn't have to sit home and wait for people to get back. Here are some pics to help you see how much fun we had without you... perhaps you could come next year. As you'll see my teams mascot was a bright blue cat house, & one of the other groups mascots was my teddy bear.

List Item: Hulahooping

List Item: The Shell Dinosaur in GB

List Item: A Human Pyramid

List Item: A Nativity Scene

List Item: Someone Getting Patted Down

List Item: Someone In Uniform

List Item: Goal Posts

And of course - List Item: A pair of 2008 glasses


Everyone had to be back to the house by 10:30 pm, and once back, we took a look at everyone's pictures on the tv. It was great to hear all of the wonderful stories, including one team that made it on the local nightly news. After we had seen all the pics, summer, kerstin and i picked the winners and then handed out all of the trophies to the winners. By the time that we were done with all of that, it was 10 minutes to midnight, and we all brought in the new year together! Here's a pic of the whole group with all of the trophies...


And here are the organizers, me, kerstin, & summer.