Who did it?

Last night was the annual Christmas party for my office.  My employer puts on a Christmas party that is incredible compared to other places I've worked.

This year we made the trek down to Canon City, Colorado for a murder-mystery dinner on the Royal Gorge Route railroad.


The evening started with the employee service awards.  This is my good friend and co-worker, Miss L, who received her 30 year award.  She claims she started working for the company when she was only one year old.  Miss L and I are the entire IT Department for the company.





The one bad thing about taking a train down the Royal Gorge at night is that the beautiful rock walls can't be seen.  We still spent some time on the outside car.  It was such a pleasant evening that we didn't even need jackets.  Is this really December in Colorado?






The food on the train was superb. I had the salmon.











Irv went for the prime rib.  Now that is a hunk of meat!  It's a little pink even for my taste, but Irv said it was good.










We all took bets on what dessert was going to be.  Roy guessed chocolate mousse and that's exactly what it was.







Everyone seemed to have a good time which may have had something to do with the bar and the free drink tickets.  (The company gets everyone a hotel room so there is no driving home after the party.)

Our team came up with a very bizarre solution to the murder-mystery and we were totally wrong.  If we had only listened to Irv, we would have won. 

It was a very fun evening!  Thanks FC for the very generous Christmas party you give us every year!

This is going to be a crazy week of travel for us.  Tomorrow morning we're driving to Albuquerque where I'll spend three days in training and Irv will spend time with his folks.  Thursday after work we'll drive back home, spend the night, and then leave for Vegas early Friday morning.  It should be a fun-filled, exhausting week!





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Yogi♪♪♪ said…
Fabulous, What a generous Christmas Party. We don't have one, so I'm totally jealous.
December 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM
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