HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We had a great time with the Traveling Supremes bringing in the New Year!  We had a chili cook off (and for the wimps like me we had Potato and Beef Vegetable Soups)!  Of course we had corn bread and for dessert we had very yummy creme brulee.  We've definitely eaten like Kings and Queens this week!

Around 8:00 p.m. they started the entertainment!  Ardis was the Master of Ceremonies and members of the group were the performers.  It was really entertaining!  They started off with a song sung by Barbara and Polk.  Next was a reading.  Marie told a story about the training her mother gave her on "public restrooms".  It was hysterical and every woman has been there.  Patsy Cline (aka Rosalyn) sang a song, I think it was "She's got You" and pulled things out of her blouse...again sooo funny!   There was a skit by Judy and Mike.  Mike was a judge on his first case and Judy was a woman who had been humiliated having a mammogram.  Again, every woman has been there, so funny!  There was a skit of old people in a nursing home (and they were dressed for the part) and the nurse brought them a new pill because the doctor thought they had been depressed.  It was viagra and they really kicked up their heels!  Next was a judging of a chili cookoff (not the ones our ladies made).  There were 3 judges and 1 of them was from Michigan because the Texas judge called in sick at the last moment.  I have never heard Ted laugh so hard.  As the chili recipes got hotter, the third judge drank more beer and was more descriptive of the problems he was having eating the HOT stuff!  They really played their parts well!

Next was a tribute to America and the soldiers and veterans of the many wars America has been involved in.  It was all very touching.  John Branndon sang America and the National Anthymn and did such a wonderful job! 

After the entertainment came the gift exchange!  We had all brought a food/drink item valued at $10.  It could even be homemade!  Ted and I ended up with a fruit cake which we gave away since we don't eat them but kept the much less healthy chocolate truffles!  They are delicious!  This was a different way to do the gift exchange.  We picked a gift one by one and could steal up to 2 additional times, but we never opened the gift until it was all done!  It was fun and with almost 40 gifts did go alot faster that way!

We were all done by about 10:30 and many of us left for our homes to bring in the New Year (or go to bed).  We actually stayed up to midnight!

My friend Jeri posted this on Facebook.  I thought it was cool:

Happy New Year..."Ain't Life Grand!"