March 7, 1998: the "anti-hat" party

Mark, Deb, Don, Pete, and I were invited to the birthday party for Matt, one of Mark's coworkers. For several years, the party's theme has been "anti-hat", in which guests wear as headgear something that was never intended to be a hat. Here is Matt (in the middle), with his roommates Mark and Mark. Follow this link to see some of my favorite anti-hats.
	Matt had a table covered with dozens and dozens of little toy trinkets. Each person was given five poker chips to give out to whoever's anti-hat they liked best. At midnight, the person with the most chips was declared the winner, and got first pick of the prizes on the table. Everyone followed in order, until everyone had as many prizes as they wanted (since there were so many prizes).
Here's Matt the birthday boy, and his favorite prize!
	Matt had a bunch of pictures from previous years' anti-hat parties, so some people put them together into a big collage.
After the collage was done, we put it up over the fireplace and started a game of Pictionary. Mark, Deb, Don, Pete, and I left around 2am, and the game was still going strong. Everyone had a good time, and I know I met some great new people!

~daver: winter 1997-1998: the "anti-hat" party