New Year's Eve

We spend New Year's Eve in Salmon each year because the Tolman family participates each year in the local radio station's New Year's Oldies Contest & Trivia. A montage is played every half hour consisting of short excerpts of 12 songs, and the object is to guess each song's title and artist to win the prize of $20! In addition to that, trivia about oldies songs is announced all night long, and if you can call in fast enough and get the answer right, you can win items donated by local businesses! It is always so much fun!

This New Years was my favorite yet, because we won the montage contest within 2 hours--a record!!! We usually work on it all night, starting at 6:00, without getting every single song's name & artist, but we've won many years by having the most answers right by the time midnight comes. Each year, the songs are chosen using a common theme, and once you can figure out enough songs, it becomes apparent what the theme is to help you figure out the remainder of the songs. Josh figured out this year's theme: "deck of cards"--the songs/artists either included a number 2-10, or a king, queen, jack, ace, joker, or a heart or diamond. To claim the title, we worked as a group: Edward and Kathy figured out most of the songs from memory, I used the "Oldies Bible" to search for more song titles and artists, and Gideon & Alyssa used the internet to look up lyrics in order to figure out the last 3 songs.So after we won around 8:00, the rest of the evening was spent playing, laughing, and putting together a puzzle, all while trying to answer the radio trivia to win more prizes throughout the remainder of the night. We had a wonderful evening with the Tolmans, and were grateful that John, the Dalrymples, and the Whittiers could join us! The closer to midnight we got, the conversation became goofier, the puzzle was harder to piece, the air was filled with more laughter, and the eyelids became heavier! Only Kanyon didn't make it to see the 12:00 hour hit, and the rest of us were happy to hit the sack after that!

(doesn't it look like octopus arms piecing the puzzle?!)

(Josh and Edward are laughing hysterically in this photo about something Micah said)

(Micah and Alyssa pretending to sleep before midnight)

Goodbye 2009!