01.30.07: Chinese New Year Party

Dear Friends and Family,

WOW.

We had a great weekend. Saturday was our annual Chinese New Year's party. So many of our close friends flew/drove in for it, I was blown away. Our neighbors from the mouse house all came in; my girlfriends and squirrel hunter from old work came in; our friends from first work came in; and, two close friends from out of town came in as well. Mr. mouse's friends, the original regulars, all came too. It was a packed house. All in all, I think we had close to 70 people come through our doors Saturday, which is more people than our wedding. I joined in four rounds of shots. The rest of the night was soda for me. 3:1 seems to be a working formula.

Sunday, we broke up into smaller groups. Half of guests headed out to the aquarium for the day. The rest of us went to the Cultural Center; it's where Mr. mouse and I were married. It was opera day, so we listened for a little bit before going across the street to the park. We splintered into yet smaller groups from there with our neighbors meeting up with some friends for dinner and Mr. mouse and I dropping off friends at the airport. We headed back to the aquarium for the dolphin exhibit. Then, picked up some Due for dinner. We took it back to the house because everyone was beat. We all turned in early Sunday night, including two friends who drove in; they turned around and came back for the night.

I took Monday off to spend more time with some friends who stayed in town for the day. We met up for breakfast then headed out to the Museum of Science and Industry. It was free day yesterday so we saved a boatload on tickets. Then, we headed out to Korean for dinner (restaurant review coming later this week) before heading out to the airport. Mr. mouse and I joined our last set of friends and the gate until their flight headed out. And, then, we headed home, dropping off his car at work in the process.

To cap off a wonderful weekend, we realized, Monday was our anniversary. We've been together 12 years now. Granted we've been married for seven and a half years, but, together for 12. Good for us. We came back home Monday night and crashed. Guess we were more tired than we realized.

Hope you had a great weekend as well. And, for those readers who came out, thanks for making it a most fantastic weekend.


Cheers!
mouse