SlavaB.com - New Year 2007 Celebration

After a little but of thinking my friends and I decided that it was time to get together and celebrate this New Year's Eve. I'd like to remind the fact that in Ukraine New Year's Eve is like Christmas Eve in Canada - the main holiday of the year, the one when Santa Claus comes and gives presents to everybody. Although Santa is called in a different manner in Ukraine (Grandpa Frosty if you translate it literally) - he still does the same job as Santa in Canada, although comes a bit late. Since Santa is really busy this time of year it was decided that I help him out a bit with his duties =)

We rented a cottage outside of town for this party. Although the cottage was somewhat far away, we got great use out of it. First of all it was affordable (closer to December 31st rent prices for New Year parties skyrocket), had lots of room, an outdoor bath-house (where we spent a lot of time) and other things necessary to make this kind of party possible and fun.

And so, the first element of the puzzle was laid down. Next, we got the people interested in this event: Yulia, Lena, Vania, Sasha, Nina, Ihor and Mira (and their two kids - Slavik and Yulia) and, of course, yours truly. Next part was the entertainment program for the night. This mammoth task, besides the organizational issues, was laid down on my shoulders. But in the end it all paid off. The program was great, in my honest opinion of course, and everybody seemed to say afterwards that they had a lot of fun.

And so, without further adieu, I shall briefly describe how it was. We got to the cottage around 8pm. After unpacking and getting everything ready I decided to get a couple of games going - one of them was a simple one:
"Question and Answer" - it involved people taking random questions and answers from a hat and reading them out loud. It was a lot of fun - everyone was laughing to the point of crying, I honestly didn't think that these games would be so much fun. If you ever have a party, give this game a try - results guaranteed !

These few hours before the New Year went by really fast, after all, we had a lot to do and laugh at =)

Then it was time to meet the New Year 2007. And a few minutes later we got visited by Santa Claus. Strangely enough Santa was wearing my ski coat, my boots and even my pants =)

Start by sitting everyone in a BGBGBG fashion (B - boy, G - girl). A person draws a random question and asks it to his/her neighbour on the left (or right) who then draws a random answer. After answering (s)he draws a random question etc. The process is repeated until everyone is on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Results Guaranteed !!!
NOTE: Better played when contestants have already drank some.

Possibilities for questions and answers are limited only by your imagination and creativity. The number of questions and answers depends on the number of people playing. We had 10 players and 84 questions / answers.

Please forgive me for the quality of pictures, they were grabbed from a video camera and may be a bit grainy.

New Year 2007 Celebration - Part 1