New Wines Party

Last night was the New Wines Party that I mentioned in an earlier post (the one with all the wine bottles). As expected we had a great time with great people, ate like royalty and drank like....fish, I suppose. This party is famous for its games, and each year the hosts, Brigitte and Craig, try to come up with new and fun games for their guests to play and, as expected, they certainly succeeded. Almost 200 photos were taken with my camera last night but I'll keep the post a short one today. The first pic is of my designated wine glass (with 30 people drinking wine, the glasses MUST be labelled!) and the second shows you one of the games; this one is faithfully played every year. Everyone sits on the floor in a circle and takes turns rolling a die (quickly). When you role a '6' you move into the middle and have to put on a toque, a scarf and a pair of mitts (in this case a pair of Christmas-themed oven mitts) and try to unwrap a gift that has many layers of tape and paper. It gets funny (and chaotic) when sixes are rolled often and people are switching places and the 'costume'; sometimes you no sooner get on all the gear and someone rolls a six and takes it all away from you. The person who finally gets to the gift wins. I had 5 tries at it but, alas, it was not me who won :(
We're already looking forward to next year's edition; it'll be the 5th annual...