#21 - Write a "Christmas Letter" and send copies with my Christmas cards.

Mike and I sent out around 30 Christmas cards stuffed with our Christmas Letter! Neither of us had written a Christmas Letter before so it was nothing fancy, but it did give relatives that we don't see very often a glimpse into our lives. Maybe next year we'll do one with pictures. :-P

#23 - Take my brother to the laserdome.

Mike & I took Albert to Laserdome on 4/12/2008. Here's what I wrote about it in my personal blog:

4/12/2008: Albert's 15th Birthday! Mike & I were supposed to take him to Laserdome for his 14th birthday, so we thought, better late than never. I called ahead in the morning to make reservations for lasertag ~3:30pm. Mike showed up around 2:30 so I started getting ready to go. Mom dropped Albert off and we headed in a south-easterly direction to Laserdome!

We ended up playing Halo (in the "virtual arena") first. After 4 games of it, I had only managed to kill 5 people. That is major suckage. Of course, I guess since it was the first time I played and it took me 'til halfway through the 3 game to figure out how to stop walking into walls with any consistency. It ended up being about $13 each to play for 20 minutes, so next time we go, I'm all for skipping that. It was interesting, though. 10 people playing all at once was neat.

Right after we were done with Halo, it was time for lasertag! They did a pretty good job at explaining how everything worked and what to do in their training session. Since we had to change our lasertag time when we showed up, our group was called last. And since my code name (tenthz, of course) was last alphabetically, I was the absolute last person to get called for a vest. As is tradition with me, I was picked last for a sport. :-P We were on the Red team (the other team was blue). It was way a lot of fun and for 3 of the 4 games, Albert had the highest score across the board (out of a total of 40 players!). Mike was in the top 10 of all the scorers the whole time. They kept making runs on the other teams base which is what made their scores so ridiculously high. I only did that a few times and the rest of the time I spent guarding our base which I attribute to the fact that we won every. single. round. By a LOT (like 10,000 to 3,000). It was a ton of fun and would definitely do that again.

We each got 44 tokens when we got there so we also spent some time playing in the arcade with those. Albert and I played a lot of the games that you get tickets from and he ended up hitting the jackpot (750-ish) on one of them with his last token. Whoa. He ended up with 1300-ish tickets, so he got a nifty disco ball thing that plugs in and lights up with different colors.

It was a lot of fun, and the next time we go, I think we'll probably just do lasertag and arcade games.

#25 - Visit Cindi in VA

I visited Cindi at the very beginning of March! I blogged about it in a post here:
http://tenthz.livejournal.com/1023971.html
on my personal blog. Lots of fun!

#20 - Develop an address spreadsheet for all family and good friends and keep updated.

I started this one a while ago, but I have to collect addresses and put them in the spreadsheet. This spreadsheet actually has 3 worksheets: My family, Mike's Family, and Our Friends. Right now it resides on my laptop, but I think I am going to import it into google documents and set it up so both Mike and I can edit it.

#27 - Visit Heather in MD at least one more time before she moves(?).

I visited Heather this past weekend. We went to the MD Ren Faire which was lots of fun. I blogged about it over on my lj:

http://tenthz.livejournal.com/958145.html