The annual GCC Holiday Party is Saturday evening at 6 pm.  Directions are in your newsletter (if you’ve lost the password, I can send it to you via return email).

 

One of the highlights of the evening is the Competitive Gift Exchange:

 

Everyone coming to the party should bring a wrapped gift.  Select something that you think may be sufficiently desirable that people might want to fight over it.  But you do not need to spend a huge amount of money; a box of ten power bars might do the trick if you cannot come up with something more original!  Huge battles have been fought over a $3 stuffed animal from Dollar General!

            All of the gifts go under the tree.  We will then call a place for the evening (see Where Am I?) and the person who is there will select a gift from under the tree and open it (quickly).  Subsequent persons called will have a choice: select a gift from under the tree or take one that someone else already has.  If your gift is taken, you have the choice of selecting one from under the tree, or taking one someone else has (you cannot take back the one you just lost).  You are limited to three “takes” during the evening; after that, if you are the victim, you must select a gift from under the tree.  The game ends when the last person selects a gift from under the tree.

 

Highly prized fish from a couple of years ago.