Sunday, February 4, 2007

Social weekend of Steaks, Shocks, and Superbowl

This has been a fun weekend of hanging out!
Friday, some of us (Les, EVB, Summer, Megan, Ryan, and Katie) celebrated Katie's 26th birthday by going out to eat at Outback. It was a fun time to catch up-- Ryan flew in for the weekend from Texas, where he and Katie will be living next year as she starts her Peds residency with the army in San Antonio and, where we learned, he will start an MD-PhD program (yikes!).
Megan, Summer, and Katie

Katie and her honey

On Saturday, Kristen and Brandon had the Joneses, Kits, and me over for dinner and games. It was also a great time! We played some Mexican dominoes, ate wonderful food that Kristen prepared (including an extremely moist, heavenly chocolate cake!), and then moved on to Dance, Dance Revolution ("DDR" for those who have played this before). It apparently is not that new a thing, although this was my first experience with it! We each had our turn, and I can certainly see how it can be a workout :)

The Yuans (the hosts)

Brandon teaching Wendi DDR

Dancin' Dave

For Christmas, Brandon got this game that shocks the person(s) with the slowest reaction time. I remember Laura sending me pics of this game being played with Tony's family and it looked hilarious! So we had to try this (for some strange reason, Wendi and Lesley were not interested in partaking). It was crazy! I totally got majorly shocked when up against David, Brandon, and John. I think my hand is still tingling :)

JB and Brandon (who we now call "Bob") really getting into it

Today, a bunch of us (Les and David, Brandon and Kristen, EVB, Ebby, Ronnie, and Cole Ray and Nick, an orthopedics intern) gathered at the Towers to watch the Superbowl at the Kitsteiners'. There was TONS of food and, although EVB may be a bit cranky (she was outnumbered by people cheering for the Colts), it was fun to watch the game (however sloppy) too. We had stuffed peppers and mushrooms courtesy of JB, pigs in a blanket and sloppy joes from Les, Cold Stone Creamery Creations from EVB, and an assortment of dips and things. My pickle roll-ups and hot wings turned out okay, but not spectacular. Oh well. Maybe next time. And perhaps the Bears will have another chance at the Superbowl someday...

David, Brandon, and Lesley on the couchWendi with her hot rice bag (well, sock) which sort of scares Kristen

EVB with the Cold Stone fixings

I wish it weren't Sunday night! Do I really have to go back to the hospital tomorrow?! : (

3 comments:

David and Lesley said...

You're such a good blogger! I am going to stop trying to blog and just refer my family and friends to your blog and Wendi's blog. :) I will post some pictures later though because I have those good ones of you guys playing that shocking game. :) And I have some of you doing DDR too. :)

TAV said...

No, No! I like your blog, Les! Can't wait to see your pics!

Anonymous said...

Ha ha! I totally forgot about "Bob". I like that. I am going to have to keep using it. If I remember. :) I posted pictures on my blog!