While we’re not big fans of New Year’s, we are fans of our New Year’s Eve party, and specifically of the mystery Lego game we play. Ahead of time, each person builds something out of Lego bricks and snaps a picture, then takes it apart and put it in a bag. At the party, guests take a bag and build what’s in it without seeing the original. The replicas look like derpy versions of the originals. My favorite was the llama, which started out looking like this…
and ended up looking like this.
I just want to hug it!
Another attempt somehow spawned an extra llama plus a feeding trough, all from the same Lego pieces!
What started out as a parrot ended up as that same parrot’s shady older cousin.
Fortunately, in the next round he pulled things together as Mall Cop Parrot.
There was a clock tower that somehow got shorter with each build:
A polar bear eating a penguin.
(As McStreamy pointed out, polar bears exist at the north pole and penguins at the south, so the only way this is possible is a tragic zoo mauling.)
And a WWII-era Orca. Yes, that’s a rotating machine gun attached to its face.
As is tradition, the adults left the party at a reasonable hour and Kevin went to bed so I stayed up with the kids. Without my tech support, none of the countdown shows would cast to the TV or do full- screen mode, so the stroke of midnight found us all crammed around my phone, watching a 1 x 2” video of a toothpick-sized Space Needle erupting in fireworks. At least, we think that’s what it was. It might have just been a commercial for a Sonicare or something.
And like that, the holidays were over.
Usually the post-holiday blues wait a while to come, letting me think I escaped them before sneaking in the backdoor. This year, though, they came before holiday break was even over. On Sunday I took the family to see Puss In Boots to forget about being sad. It worked, but only for a little while and now Kevin keeps asking if I want to rub his belly.
I think I’ll go with the llama instead.
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