New Year's Eve

2007 brought in probably the most interesting New Years Eve I’ve ever had. Most December 31^st normally involve me hanging out with old friends watching the ball drop and playing board games. Definitely fun times, but it was nice to do something new this year.

For this year’s party we went down to Kentucky to hang out with some of Ben’s college friends and I didn’t know anyone except Ben. And he only knew the host and hostess. So we met lots of new people. Our extroverted selves got some much needed people exercise and talked to some very interesting people. Here’s a couple of them:

1. Hillary. She has lived in many states, but never actually in the same state as her Fiancé who is currently working in the United Arab Emirates. She loves to travel and we talked for a long time about places we’ve been to, heard about or wanted to visit. If we lived near each other I think we would be friends.

2. Jamie Barnes and his funny wife, Kelsey. I didn’t talk to them much, but Ben and I did look up his music and I like it. I would suggest you go check it out and buy his stuff. Apparently MySpace is really helping him promote his music and he’s really big in Alaska because of it. I don’t think he’s actually been to Alaska, but the people there love his music.

3. ThatGuy. Ben and I got cornered by ThatGuy at the party. He spent a lot of the time talking to me about some really personal feelings and hurts. It was good and awkward. I eventually ate everything on my plate and had to leave to throw it away.

4. A couple who is living on the West side of the City doing inner city ministry. He’s one of the pastors there. It was neat to talk to them about their heart for the city and the people there. I love talking to people about inner city ministry.

5. A couple Emo-guys wearing women’s pants.

This party was especially interesting because it was held at this plantation house:

that has a staircase like this:

I think the house was built around 1823ish. It was neat, but also kind of creepy because half of it was empty. I mean, it would take a LOT of furniture to fill it and the young couple living there had a normal amount of furniture, not A LOT.

I had a lot of fun.

Maybe moving to Kentucky and meeting lots of new people won’t be so bad after all……