NYE dinner

Our new year's eve party was a success! As mentioned earlier, we invited a few of our friends around and I cooked lamb with rosemary potatoes and red cabbage. Fortunately the rosemary was easily found, and Uncle Monty wasn't invited. A situation like this was avoided! Yoicks and V brought a delicious cake for dessert, and Elberry and M (a new colleague from the States) brought an assortment of salads, bread, and nibbles for entree. Not a belly left the table without being filled to capacity.

We ate, chatted, drank, and made merry for several hours. At a quarter to 12 we decided to start a game of Cluedo, which carried us over the threshold of 2011 and well into the early hours of the morning. Beyond a certain point in the game we lost the thread of who had what card (or at least I did, but I don't think I was alone on this score - it was caused by genuine befuddlement; I was drinking alcohol-free Hefeweizen the whole night), but we enjoyed ourselves, made plenty of jokes, and eased into the new year the best way I could have imagined or hoped for.