Ahhhh, Christmas week is upon us.\u00a0 Already.\u00a0 We’ve managed our share of celebrating too.\u00a0 Heck, I’d go so far as to say I am looking forward to Christmas this year.\u00a0 I’ve definitely been to more holiday parties than usual.\u00a0 For instance, Thursday night we headed down to the Brooksider for the annual Christmas Caroling event.\u00a0 Several of the “regular patrons” there go out singing every year, always starting (and ending) the event at the Brooksider.\u00a0 They hit a packed house too this year for whatever reason, there wasn’t an empty table in the place.<\/p>\n
Friday evening was the “official” annual Christmas party at the Brooksider, so we headed down there again.\u00a0 As usual for this party, it was over-crowded, loud, and nearly annoying.\u00a0 Free food will do that I guess.\u00a0 Luckily for me they fired up the heaters on the back porch, so me and a few other guys retreated out there for the evening.<\/p>\n
Saturday was, for the most part, spent on the couch watching basketball.\u00a0 Several entertaining games on, even if they didn’t all come out quite as I wanted.\u00a0 Around 5:00, we wandered down to the Brooksider of all places.\u00a0 Our friend Brooke was in town, so she and several friends met up with us down there.\u00a0 We stayed for quite a while too, later than usual for us old folks. After a while she and her merry band of youngsters headed out on the town.\u00a0 We, on the other hand, did not.<\/p>\n
Sunday we expanded our horizons a bit.\u00a0 No trips to the Brooksider, whew.\u00a0 Instead, we went to O’Dowds and watched the Chiefs game.\u00a0 You really can’t beat the ol’ Brooksider for watching TV, but O’Dowds was certainly a serviceable alternative, and much less crowded.\u00a0 There was another contributing factor too:\u00a0 They are in the KC Hopps<\/a> group of restaurants, and they were running a special Christmas deal where we got $10 off our meal and 100 bonus “points.”\u00a0 The points are something of a running joke with us.\u00a0 We like to accumulate them, and if they come out with a deal like that where you get extra points we will show up every time.\u00a0 But, we never actually use them, just keep building them up.\u00a0 Who knows, some day we may cash them in and throw a party or something.\u00a0 At any rate, we had a quite tasty lunch and loaded up our card with yet more points!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahhhh, Christmas week is upon us.\u00a0 Already.\u00a0 We’ve managed our share of celebrating too.\u00a0 Heck, I’d go so far as to say I am looking forward to Christmas this year.\u00a0 I’ve definitely been to more holiday parties than usual.\u00a0 For instance, Thursday night we headed down to the Brooksider for the annual Christmas Caroling event.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}