New Year's Eve

Awhile ago I joined this group called groupons. They send you daily coupons to your email that are at greatly discounted prices to businesses in your area. I've bought a few of them. Most are a 50% savings. One to a cupcake place in Eagle that you buy the "groupon" for $8 and you get a coupon to get $16 in cupcakes - basically 6 cupcakes for the price of 3. We'd been wanting to go there and check out a cupcake cake store & just hadn't made it to Eagle to do that. So now we have another excuse to go - gotta use the coupon by June. We also bought some to a place called Smashburger. Wow! Those were good hamburgers!! And the french fries were great, too. That was another 50% savings deal - pay $5 get a $10 coupon. Oh and that was a popular one. They had 2,500 of those for sale. In the 24 hours it was available to buy they sold over 2,200 of them!

But the best deal, turned out ok, but wasn't as good as it seemed... We bought a package deal for the Steelheads hockey game on New Year's Eve. The deal was 4 tickets for a luxury suite for $25 each (regular $65 each!). Brianna ended up at a friends house and Grandpa Ron was in Washington, so we asked Grandma J to go with us. This great deal that was suppose to include chips, cheese, salsa & popcorn was very enticing to alot of people and the rooms that were available to us were crowded and we weren't able to sit and watch the game. Stood the entire time. The snacks were on a table in 2 of the 3 rooms and to be shared with everyone and no refills. We asked about getting more chairs but were told they'd brought in all they could. So we went to the least crowded room, pulled the curtain back and looked through several panels of glass to the game. When some others that were standing watching the game left, we went and stood in their spots and were at least able to see the game better. Now, overall we did have a good time, but it was frustrating! And I'm very thankful that we didn't pay $65 for each of those "luxury seats" we got! (And I think the worst part was sitting in the parking garage for an hour (not kidding!) waiting to get out after the game! Though we were entertained by a couple of teenagers in the car behind us. They got out and danced around to their music, dove into the car through open windows, and climbed in/out of the sun roof window.)

This was after the 1st period ended. This team of little hockey players got to play until 1 of them made a goal. Pretty cute.

This picture kind shows where we were. The far left is where we pulled the curtain back to watch through the windows. There were 6 bar height chairs up against the opening there. There was the couple on the end, then Les, Tiffani & Grandma J standing and then 4 other people in the chairs. We could've pulled up the table chairs, but then your looking at the shelf to set your drinks/snacks on & can't see the game!

Then there was the drive home... Didn't realize everything closed down on New Year's Eve. Tried to find a place to eat and nothing was open! So we took Grandma J back to Tracy's house to get her car (minus a headlight...) and Tiffani drove her home to spend the night out there. Les and I went to Winco and got sour cream and came home to eat leftover taco bake while watching Dick Clark's New Year's Eve. (Exciting, I know.) We warned Tiffani to take it easy with the missing headlight, beings it was New Year's Eve and after 11pm, the cops were going to be out in full force. Sure enough, she got pulled over in Middleton for the headlight!! Grandma J said she handled herself just fine. :) So she brought in the New Year driving the back roads to New Plymouth. Tiffani didn't say anything to us about it, but Grandma J had texted Les. So I sent her a text asking how the drive was, her reply was "Fine, eventful..."