Happy New Year!

As you can see, a fun time was had by all on New Year's eve and for our Polar Beer Dip on New Year's Day.
We started the pre party at our house with linda and Peter and Elli and her mom and Gord and Janice. We checked out the music on the new Sirius radio and had a toast or two to the new year before proceeding over to Anne and Dick's house. The music was blasting and the table was full of munchies. We added our efforts to the array of foods and before we could hardly get dancing, everyone dug into the yummies and sampled the wings and sausage rolls and crackers and cheese and dips and veggies and so on. A whole table full. It is always hard to walk away from something that grand!
However, Dick had satellite radio playing, and alternated between that and his collection of a hundred cd's,all in one player.
Witht he tunes going, everyone got into the swing of things and started to dance up a storm. Anne organized four winter boots in the middle of the floor for us to dance around, when a scottish tune came on,complete with bagpipews playing. That was Anne dancing in the photo with her dress hoisted up!
T'wasn't long before Anne donned her New Years Butt shorts and wrapped a scarf around her head and put on the shades. We all roared as she pranced around showing off her "Sweet Cheeks!"
All was in good fun as we counted down the seconds and watched the big ball drop ,in Times Square..then we all hugged and gave each other our colds and flu.
Anne was a little under the weather at this point,and had to make a departure to bed, and Emil and Dick and Richard, shut the party down at some wee hour in the morning. I came home before that and hit the hay as I was pooped and my sinuses have been giving me hell,thus a Sudafed was in order.

On New Year's Day ,the crew re-assembled for the big Polar Beer Dip. At first it was to be Lynn B. showing the way with Anne and I following and at one point, Dick and his son Richard were all aboard. By 2:00 on dipping day, the only one sporting a bathing suit was Lynn...and it was snowing like crazy. Emil dutifully made the hot rums and was ready for her to emerge from the lake. I was ready with the camera and towels and in less than a minute, Brave Lynn was in, dipping, and out again. Her feet were freezing and she was all ashiver! We wrapped her up and got her boots on and led her back up to the hot tub, with her hot rum toddy! I have the best video of her whole dip, so I will try try try to upload it to YouTube so we can see it on the blog. So, I will try to do that now. If it doesn't work, then I will have to figure it all out when we return from our little vacation. So no more emails or jokes for a week or so,and I shall return with tall tales...take er easy.
Fancy that ...we have to drive to Kelowna to get our winter tires...keep your fingers crossed.According to the highway cams, the rest of the roads in the province looked bare. I have a link to highway cameras on my sidebar after recipes.
"The Creator"