We attended our third and final social event of the week in the form of a Chiefs game with Judy. We also took our niece Erika. She did a great job of keeping Jake company. The Chiefs won the game handily, so that was cool. The crowd was pretty sparse, but I guess that’s what a Wednesday night will get you.
This concludes our socialization for January.
Like we didn’t sit around enough today watching football, we sat around more this evening to watch this movie. You could describe it with one phrase, “visually stunning”. The architecture of the houses involved in the tale were all quite unique and interesting. The movie was based off of the popular Lemony Snickets books. Jake has a few of them, but we haven’t read them yet, so I wasn’t positive what to expect. But, having seen the previews and knowing that Jim Carrey starred in the film, gave me a clue. The movie was ok. We all enjoyed it, but I started to get a little bored by the end.
Now we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. What a friggin’ game. I could do without this much excitement, to tell you the truth. The Steelers persevered despite the horrible call and pulled this game out. I’m so glad that Jerome Bettis didn’t have to end his career with that fumble at the end. Next week: Denver.
My mom decided to host a wine tasting party, so we attended our second of these types of parties last night. It is of my professional opinion that someone should host one of these once an month and invite me and Brian. As usual, we had a blast. It was kind of funny–there were a mix of people at the party, so everyone didn’t know one another. Things were kind of subdued until the first round of wine was poured. After that, the volume level kept getting higher with each round of wine.
These parties have inspired me to start keeping a list of all of the wines we’ve tasted. Since I make a few hundred of bottles of wine each year, we don’t get an opportunity to try a lot of different wines (other than our own). So, when we have the opportunity to do so, it seems logical to keep track of the wines we’ve tried.
Last night we headed over to Brian’s parent’s house to celebrate his dad’s birthday. It was a pretty laid-back affair as it was just the three of us, Brian’s parents, and our niece, Erika. But, since I’m all for laid-back affairs, it was a nice evening. The party got started a little later than anticipated because our new nephew, Mackay, was born the previous night and Ed and Ivah went up to New York to meet the new little guy and were running late on their return home. This was the first of our three social engagements this week.