Christmas Party Rockin' in the Museum Tonight!

Hello Dear Readers,

I meant to get this post to you on Sunday, but after recovering from my party week (Grandma would be so proud) and working Sunday morning, I was so exhausted!  I even went to bed at 8 last night instead of going to yoga, and I hate missing yoga.

Anyway, the NHM Life Sciences Christmas Party was, by all accounts, a rip roaring success.  Not to brag, but phrases like "Best party of the past 25 years" were thrown about, and it's certainly been a topic of conversation over the past week or so.  Perhaps I've missed my calling as an event planner, but then, it's never too late is it?

Here are a few photos of the night, which was themed "All that glitters......"

 This is me (on the right, recognize the dress?) and the girl who has been working with me for the past two months, Katie.  We are sparkle queens!  I had body glitter on, but this photo shows that clearly, I didn't put on enough.

One of the complaints I heard from last year which I tried to address this time was the lack of enough and good quality food, so this year we had tons!  Of course people complained when we ran out of alcohol, but honestly, I think we would have drank it all no matter how much we got..... You can see we were really cutting it up on the dance floor.

 Here is most of the Botany Gang. L to R are Caroline, Katie, Chris, Olivia, Sam, Jacek, James, Aurelie and Jacquie.  Most of them also helped with the setup-food prep, which was fantastic.

Jacek (who won best costume for guys) is emulating Lady Gaga's mirrorball dress that she wore at Glastonbury last year.  He can really pull it off, he reminded me of Luke Ward's famous shiny dress for the Ghetto Superstar number in the marching band talent show.....

We had so many people thanking us and saying what  a great party it was, it was so worth all the hard work we put into it, and I met a lot of people at the museum I wouldn't have had a chance to otherwise, so I'm very pleased.

In other news, I finished my Chickadee sweater, but I'm afraid that was not a success.  Phrases like, "frumpy old lady sweater" have been thrown around.  I'll have to take a photo so you can judge for yourselves.  That will probably be in Cyprus, the light will be better, and I'll have more time!

House Christmas dinner tomorrow night, Chris's cousin Christiana is coming tonight and we'll do Tofurky tomorrow (I found it at Whole Foods!).  Then, flying to Cyprus on Saturday at the butt-crack of dawn... I hate these Easy Jet flights......


Merry Christmas!

Heather

P.S. Incidentally, this is my 100th post!  Go me!