The annual Bay Area S2ki Holiday Party is here. We will have dinner first, followed by the white elephant gift exchange.

Time: 6:30 PM, Sat. Jan. 23rd
Location: Residence Inn by Marriott
5400 Farwell Place, Fremont
Cost: $30 per person
buffet style dinner with beverages

Please pay by Jan. 19th at Friday meet or paypal(below) so I can order food.

If you want to reserve a room, it's $99 for a studio suite. If we have more 5 or more rooms, it will be $89.
Penthouse suite is $114 and have a queen bed, queen Murphy bed and a sofa sleeper.
Let me know if you are getting a room.

Link to Paypal

White elephant gift exchange

Rules for White Elephant Gift
All gifts should have a value of $15-$25. Use your imagination to make it fun.
Participants bring their gifts wrapped or sealed in a gift bag, and often take care to hide the contents of the gift and the identity of the giver.
Gifts are placed in a designated area.
Participants draw numbers to see who goes first, second, etc.
Participants may not fall asleep or "rest their eyes" during any portion of the game.

How to Play:
The guest who has drawn #1 goes first. He/she chooses a gift from the gift pile, opens the gift for all to see, and keeps it for the time being.

The guest who has drawn #2 goes next. He/she can either choose to take an unopened gift from the gift pile or to steal a gift from any previous gift-opener.

Allow each subsequent person to either unwrap a new gift, or steal any of the gifts previously opened. If someone's gift is stolen, that person can immediately unwrap a new one or steal another gift.

Continue until someone unwraps a new gift, then proceed onto the next number. The fourth owner of a gift gets to keep it. The gift is dead after it has been stolen three times. It may not be stolen once there has been three owners. Owners of live gifts must keep them visible and hold them up when requested.

After all turns have been taken, the person who has drawn #1 has the option of taking one more turn since they had the disadvantage of not knowing what any of the now-opened presents were in the beginning. However, they may NOT take any dead gifts nor may they steal back any gift that was stolen from them. This gives them the opportunity to steal something they like better but at the same time, places SOME limits on what they can take. If there are no limits to #1 then they might as well sit back, relax, wait 'til everyone else is finished playing and then snatch whatever they want!

We will have our own private room for the meal and gift exchange, so the party is on. The party is open to all, but please bring an adult attitude.

We have maximum of 35 people for the room, so IN:
21 and counting

1. Macr88 paid
2. Gpwuster paid
3. logikbmb paid
4. slightly2ned paid
5. Lewis2k paid
6. na3j nitsuj +1 paid
7. black_mango paid
8. Munki paid
9. tkeyyy paid
10. theonlineguy paid
11. Kaansahbaz +1
12. Voodoo_s2k +1 paid
13. buzzman3 paid
14. S4play paid
15. nick the quick +1 paid
16. superKHANH + 1 paid
17. REV_HARD + 1
18. RedlinedITR paid
19. s2khac paid


Maybe:
1. Ap2Crazy
2. Yamez
3. s2k_51009
4. C-losAp1

 

I'm game for this event. Sandy BTW where are you guys holding the party at this year?

1. Macr88
2. Gpwuster
3. logikbmb

 

Either Fremont or S. San Jose.

 

Wish I could make this one... I'll be with you guys in spirit!!!

 

I believe I have work that weekend but I have to look at my schedule on monday. Put me in as a maybe =]

 

Most likely fremont if we can. ssj is a bit far for everyone..

 

 

 

You work at night? Maybe it's early enough to change the schedule or swap with someone?

 

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