Christmas Double Date Night

For the past few years we have had an annual friends Christmas party where we get together, eat, play games and have an ornament exchange.


Well this year, everyone was particularly busy doing their own things so the four of us, Dan, Erin, Dwayne and I, got together for a group date.


We started with our gift exchange over dinner at Applebee's. Yummy!


Then it was time to take it back to when we were kids. We drove over to the Grand Sierra Resort and hit up the arcade.

We had tons of tokens and just had fun playing all the different games.

Erin and Dwayne played Dance, Dance Revolution (Erin won) while Dan and I looked on.

Erin and I played a game where we had to shoot dinosaurs. This was our "we are dinosaur hunters" look.

Dwayne took a turn at seeing how many points he could earn throwing a football.

I played my all time favorite arcade game: Ski Ball!

After we were all done with our tokens we counted the tickets we had earned and turned them in for prizes. Much to our happiness, you could redeem some of the tickets for Christmas ornaments! So, even though we didn't do the ornament exchange this year, we each got an ornament anyway to put on our trees! Perfect!

Once we had our prizes it was time for some laser tag. We rented a locker to keep track of all of our stuff and then waited until it was time for us to enter the arena.

It is so much fun to run around shooting a laser at people while earning points!

Dwayne was very sneaky, creeping around the corners and such.

Erin and I never shoot each other, instead we try and gang up on the boys. Sometimes it is difficult but we try! Somehow, they always do better than we do.

See? The boys take it so seriously! We had a really good time though. Sometimes you just have to let your inner child loose and have fun! What a better way to do it than on a double date with your best friends?

After running around the arcade and laser tag we went for hot chocolate, turned up the Christmas music and drove around looking at Christmas lights. It was a great double date night!