Every year we close early on a Sunday or Monday night in December to throw a holiday party for our crew.

For years Sunset Bowl played host to our parties.  Our shenanigans were usually the talk of the bowling alley for the next year – bobbing for smelt in our Survivor competition for Jingle Bell Jungle Boogie Bowl in 2001, Gong Show performances during That ‘70’s Bowl in 2003, Spam carving contest at our Holiday Hula Bowl in 2004 and our Road Warrior Green Machine race in the parking lot for our Holiday Punk Bowl in 2007.  Since Sunset Bowl closed in 2008, we turned to Chop Suey to host our last two holiday parties.

As you can tell from the names of our parties, we always pick a theme and build our party around it (which is captured for the year in the crew photos on each location page of our website – 2009 will be up soon).  This year’s party was Holiday Masquerade.  We sent out kits to our stores for crew to make their own masks.  Many did.  Many made appearances with other means of masking their faces including face paint, gas masks and paper bags.  At the end of the night we crowned Justin Wehrell, GM from Magnolia, our Masquerade King for best mask and Ben McIsaac, cook and driver at Miller, Karaoke King.  Can’t wait for next year’s party!