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Friday, January 9, 2009

what a way to start off the year....

It's the middle of January now, I still owe my blog my NYE celebration in Laughlin. Well... anyway, here it is. We went to Laughlin to welcome the year of 2009. This was kind of a last minute decision. We thought we would be going to Steve's casa if we were in town. On NYE, John's friends called and asked if we should go out of town instead of doing the same thing every year. (We were at Steve's too last year). It was easy arranging this trip because Shane's generous parents allowed us to stay at their house. We left pretty late and didn't arrive until 9pm. After a nice dinner at the Joe's Crab Shack, we hung out at the casino.

jenn & tim... looking so cute ready for some gambling
lots of people... but not as bad as we thought it would be at 12 am sharp, the balloons were released and everyone was trying so desperately to pop them our new year's toast, minus Dustin the boring one, who doesn't drink nor smoke but, hey it worked out for us! he of course was assigned the most important task- to drive us home! :D happy new year from me & john! I don't really fancy gambling, i sat at one of the penny slots while waiting. pretty darn proud when my one dollar turned into....
The next day, we woke up to Tim & Dustin trying to fix the water pipe. Can you smell disaster? Because i can....
checking out to see if they know what they were doing
Sure enough.....
the pipe broke under tim's handling we made him take a picture with it because it will definitely be one memorable new year for all of us. Poor tim, he was so depressed the whole time until it finally got fixed. At this point, shane finally had woken up. On the phone reporting the incident to his dad. Gary was so cool about the whole thing and told him to just update him with the progress. After several calls for help, he finally found someone who was willing to come out on new year's day. help is finally here after about 25 min of waiting and water shooting out like crazy. stood and watched helplessly at our hero of the day He finally was able to get everything fixed in about an hour. He replaced the pipe like nothing had happened before...... this guy was so nice. He didn't charge us any money, and even refused to take the tip that Tim offered him.
We finally have water to shower, brush our teeth and flush the toilet (thank god!) at 4 something in the evening. Yep, and that's how we start off our new year. A chaotic day without water. It will definitely be one of our most memorable new years.

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