THE GARDOCKI FAMILY: Annual New Year's Costume Party

What a nice New Year’s party we had again this year! The theme for the party was the “The Bible Ball.” Everyone was asked to come to the party dressed as a bible character or a person from a bible story. A few of the regulars could not make it, but those that did attend were:

The Bell’s

The Hill’s

The Schreier’s

The Davis’

The Bessler’s

The Michalak’s

The Shank’s

The Linberger’s

Mike and Shannon

And Us. - Delilah and Baby Moses

Along with the meatball sandwiches and chili, each guest brought either an appetizer or dessert, so there was plenty of food to go around.

After about an hour of socializing, the games began. Jay planned 4 games this year each beginning with a short children’s bible story. The first story was about Noah and the ark. After the story, the guests had to follow directions to make an origami boat out of paper. The first 6 people advanced to the next round where they had to make an origami sampan boat. The twist was that there were no directions. Instead, they had to watch a video that showed how to make the boat.

Only the first and second person got prizes. 1st place went to Jarrod Michalak and 2nd place went to Pete Shank.

After a short break, the story of “The Tower of Babel” was read. The game then started and required the guest to be in teams where they had to use objects in a bag that Jay provided to build the tallest tower. Once again there was a twist. In the story of the Tower of Babel, God confused the people by making them speak different languages so that they would not understand each other. Jay’s confusion was that he allowed the teams to talk for 1 ½ minutes, but then the rest of the game had to be played in silence.

After 10 minutes of building, the winning team’s tower was announced.

The third game was an arm wrestling tournament which followed the story of “Jacob wrestling with God.” The girls wrestled girls and the men wrestled men in a bracket style single elimination tournament.

After some tough matches, the results were…
For the women – 1st place: Rebecca Michalak, 2nd place: Jennifer Linberger.

For the men – 1st place: Pete Shank, 2nd place: Mike Burns, 3rd place: Tom Hill.

Next, the king and queen of the party was voted on and announced. The Bible King was Jay Gardocki and the Bible Queen was a tie between Lisa Hill and Sarah Davis.

The last game of the evening was a trivia game called “Bible or Not.” Jay had assembled quotes that were either from the bible or quoted from various people in history. Jay read a quote and the guests had to raise up a sign stating whether it was a bible or not bible quote. After two rounds, the winners were: 1st place: Ian Bell, 2nd place: Jennifer Linderger, 3rd place: Sarah Davis

Once the games were over, we had about an hour to socialize until the ball dropped to ring in the New Year.