The Annual Company Holiday Party

So I attended my first company holiday party with my new company, RW Armstrong, last night at the Hilton downtown. And I must say, they really try to take care of their employees.

It started with the usual appetizers and drinks - OPEN BAR. They had the LED cubes they put in everyone's drinks, too... kind of fun. From there, we had dinner. It was an around the world buffet of sorts... set up in a circle, different foods from all over the world. I thought it was pretty good, myself, but Eric turned his nose up at a lot of it., I think he's just picky. And after dinner, of course, the band started and there was dancing (Eric doesn't dance, the bum!). So as far as a company party goes, this all was pretty much standard.

It was some of the extras that made it even more fun! Similar to the LED ice cubes, they had other unique things that I had not had at Christmas parties. Another neat idea was to have a photographer there, not only do the candids that will show up digitally somewhere later, but they had a set up like you would at prom. The difference being you could get pictures with whomever you wanted, and as many people you wanted, as many times as you wanted. So you can imagine, as the night went on and the drink flowed freely, these even started to get fun! :) Also to add to the fun, after dinner and after the dancing had started, they passed out colorful scarfs and berets. Last year they did feather boas and fuzzy hats. So this is a normal thing. But again, as you can imagine, once these things went out, more fun pictures happened. :)

So all in all, it was a good time. I think Eric even had fun, which you can probably see. :) And it's kind of nice to have this done before the holiday season gets too crazy in the coming month. Can you believe it's only 32 days till Christmas!!! Yikes!!