Christmas Party
Last week while doing Christmas shopping for the kids, I was also shopping for myself. That was only because Schlumberger had a Christmas party on Saturday at Westin. I wanted a new dress. Since I didn’t find anything for myself while shopping for the kids’ Christmas gifts, I spent another day out with a friend shopping and while she bought 5 dresses, I bought none. Somehow I don’t fancy what I see and I don’t need another black dress.
This is the woman who bought 5 dresses.
Anyway the Christmas party was alright. They have a photographer on-site for couples who wants a photo taken. After the party they will develop the shots and send the photo to the employees. I am now waiting for ours to arrive.
They didn’t have an open bar, for liability reasons. In the US, if someone attends such functions, gets drunk and get into trouble, they can sue the organiser. So we were given 3 tickets each to get drinks at the bar and over dinner they provide free-flow wine. That should work out ok since the party has to end at midnight but somehow we ended up with 15 drink tickets.. hehe. That was alot of drinking if you include the wine we had with dinner.
They served a buffet dinner. I dislike buffets at such events because there’s always a long line to get food. My strategy that night was to have dessert first and main meal later to avoid the long lines and it worked out perfectly well for me! I was never in line for anything.
That’s us at the Christmas party. Now you know why I need to lose 5kg!
That’s the first Christmas party we went to this year. There will be another one this Saturday by the pool with some friends. Just an excuse to meet up and have some drinks before some of them travel home to celebrate Christmas with their families.
Houston is nicely decorated and wherever you go, you hear Christmas jingles. It feels really festive here and I love it.
