| The Jingle Jog 2003 has come and gone. We got lucky with the weather
this year - it was near perfect. 10 walkers and joggers participated in
the 3 mile event, and Brian Wiley won a miniature flashlight as a prize.
Brian and his brother Nathan also provided some excellent violin music
at the start. The runners started off with a "bang" provided by my son
Thomas, who shot a glow stick out of a homemade potato gun launcher. What
can I say, special effects on a budget.
About 30 people in all, including kids, shared the delicious potluck meal, and then the real fun began. Barb Miller started the talent-less contest with her traditional batan twirling to the tune of The Pretender's "Back on the Chain Gang" (oooh!--aahh!) and took home a Sponge Bob Square Pants miniature lunch box for her efforts. Lisa Bennett and Viki Prusia entertained us on the electric keyboard, wearing matching shirts. (But they still haven't redeemed themselves for backing out of wearing their bikinis at the 25 mile mark aid station at the Ultra.) Mitch performed an incredibly nasty and hysterical little Navy ditty, Sig read a red-neck poem, and the rest of us wowed - or should I say stunned - the crowd with Karaoke, with mixed levels of skill. Unknown to us at the time, my husband had piped our voices out our backyard speakers so our neighbors could *enjoy* us as well. Yeee-ouch! Don Snyder turned out to the the closet Karaokeler with a rockin' rendition of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, and Terry Mitchell performed a respectable version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Jeff "the Hash guy" turned out to be one of the few with golden vocal chords, and after everybody else left, we sat on the couch singing oldies (OK, he was singing, I was butchering). About the only person who didn't perform Karaoke (Klassen) will go unmentioned (Klassen) for fear of humiliating him and his cowardice (Klassen). If there were to have been a prize for the most vocally challenged karaokeler who had the most fun, it would have to go to...(drumroll please) Joy Lewis. Get down, Joy! This girl knows how to have fun! I want to learn some of those dance moves. She can tear up a rug! Brian and I appreciated being able to host the party - it felt great to give back a bit to the club that has given me so much over the years. Our only wish was that more people would have shown up. We enjoyed the company of everyone who came, and it was a lot of fun - at least for me - to get to be a rock star for the night. Merry Christmas!
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