Matt, Vincent & Naoko :: Elgin, IL

Joey, Kim, Dallas, Sal :: Heather

Kim & Sal’s Daughter, Claire

Rachelle, Cory, Heather, Kim, Claire, Naoko, Miko, Lori

Back: Cory, Naoko, Doug, Joey, Kim, Jeff, Sal, Claire, Vincent, Matt
Middle: Miko, Dallas, Lori, Danny, Darren, Jennifer
Front: Rachelle, Heather

This holiday weekend we went from party to party around the Chicago and Milwaukee suburbs to visit with family and friends, exchange gifts, and eat a ton of food. (Thanks to Dallas’ Auntie Laura for letting us borrow her car for the weekend so we didn’t have to rent a car or figure out how to get everywhere via public transportation!)

Friday night we were at Doug & Naoko’s holiday party in Elgin. Noako cooked a lot of really good food, including some wonton soup, sushi, and some kind of crab puffs. I don’t know what was in the crab puffs but they were so good. We had a gift exchange and got to spend a time with friends & family. Those were the high points. The low point: The boys were in the garage playing some made up football game (Danny got a football in the gift exchange). Basically in the game you had to catch the ball and if you didn’t catch it you had to drink a whole beer. Well, something happened out there and Sal rammed into Doug’s car and now there’s 2 dents in it. Sal’s a good-sized guy, but I was wondering - if Doug’s car can be dented by a person, how do you think it’d do in an actuall car accident?