On Thursday, Dec 17th, the staff at St. Andrew held our staff Christmas party. I was on the party planning committee, and thankfully we didn't have any issues of what kind of cake to get. The other ladies on the committee were super excited about things, and possibly a little overzealous and ambitious about games and skits. We played team games, mostly relay ones, that involved wrapping or unwrapping gifts. We had two skits; the first, before lunch, was The Christmas Carol. The newest friar to join St. Andrew played Scrooge, and he was magnificent. Fr. Carl, the friar that passed away in August, came to visit him three times as the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Here is a picture of the Ghost of Christmas Past and Scrooge:
We had a delicious lunch of steak (or chicken), baked potato with all the fixings, a broccoli salad, spinach salad, bread, and of course plenty of desserts. After lunch our pastor read the St. Andrew rendition of 'The Night Before Christmas.' Our retired pastor played Santa and I, well, I was a reindeer. That was also when we received our Christmas bonus and then did our gift game swap, whatever you want to call it (similar to white elephant, but we had nice gifts). I think at least 4 or 5 people went home with a bottle of alcohol. I was so close to taking home Butterscotch Schapps, but the last person took it from me, since the gift also included a blanket. SO CLOSE! Here is a picture of 'St. Andrew's Night Before Christmas.'
