16 December 2007
Pod Christmas 2007….. chingedy ching, hee-haw hee-haw
Posted by Brian under: Virginia Tech .
This weekend was the weekend of the Pod Christmas 2007. The weekend was complete with food, fun, and Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey. You can see a video of Dominick below from YouTube. To be continued…. … A few days of work, and now I have time to finish this post. Like I said we were in Raleigh, NC for the Pod Christmas 2007. Turns out that Raleigh is actually the capital of North Carolina… All this time I thought it was Charlotte. Anyways, Becca was nice enough to host us all in her new townhome, and we had a great time. Val and I got there on Friday and helped (or watched) Meredith make the Yule log cake, while we got a few drinks up on everyone else who was coming in on Saturday. Turns out that Saturday was overcast and drizzley, so we pretty much just took the driving tour or Raleigh, before waiting on everyone else to show up and go to lunch at Ruby Tuesday’s. I think that in the future, we need to have a set time for the event to start, so that people aren’t trickling in all day, and we end up not eating until about three because we have to wait for Landon and Kristen, but then Derek, Stacy and Andrew are coming an hour later, then Angela an hour after that, and on and on while I eat all of the cheeze and crackers that are in the entire place. This was my first post-VT Pod Christmas, so I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be like, but we started by getting loud and making a scene at Ruby Tuesday’s, so I’m pretty sure we were on target. After that we all went back to Becca’s to hang out before dinner. A dinner of Lasagana, salad, vegtables, and maybe some other stuff was served, and we all dug in. It looked just like any other dsyfunctional family gathering. After that it was time to open our stockings and take another one of Becca’s stupid, fun and exciting quizzes. We all complain about them, but once we get started and the competitive gene comes out in us, there is no stopping us. Val ended up winning, and we won a copy of a Christmas movie. We did the Dirty Santa gift exchange, and ended up with a nice travel mug that can be plugged in to stay warm. After that it was time for the Christmas tradition of watching Christmas Vacation before falling asleep. Got up the next morning, and just like that, Pod Christmas 2007 had come to a close. I’m working on getting the pictures to cooperate, so hopefully they will be up before the week is out.
Two days of work down here in Atlanta, then it’s off to Spartanburg for Christmas there, and then driving up to Virginia for Christmas with the Wikers. I think I heard mention of a trip to Atlantic City with the Grandparents, although it will not be anywhere near the fun Bart and Matt’s bachelor parties, I have to take what I can get.
Oh yeah, I forgot to explain about Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey. What is there really to explain? Stacy introduced the song to everyone, Andrew spent the whole weekend saying hee-haw hee-haw, and now we have something that can rival Schfifty-Five. You never heard of Schfifty-Five?…. Look for the video below Dominick, the second one down.
2 Comments so far...
Andrew Says:
16 December 2007 at 11:49 pm.
Dude! You found Dominic the Donkey! I just found that on You Tube as well. I have no idea why I search for stuff like that.
It’s my new favorite Christmas song!! Hee-haw!
Andrew
Val Says:
20 December 2007 at 3:48 pm.
If you notice in the video Derek is the one with the mustache and Andrew is the one with the Donkey head on…or that is what Brian and I decided 