We recently hosted a theme party of "Midwest Night" at our house. We had representatives from MN, WI, MI, and IL. (The people from CA and WA me made into honorary IA and NE residents.)
I made name tags for everyone with their home state. Boys were given the middle name of "Bob" and girls had either "Jo" or "Sue" for a middle name.
The evening featured two games. The first one was a Midwest Quiz that Hal put together. Tyler, who has lived in WA all his life, won the quiz. Things were pretty even, but he pulled away when it came to the "match the senator to the state they represent" part of the quiz. (For future reference, Chuck Grassley is from Iowa.) The second game was called "Tip the Cow". Everyone had a circle with a cow print out. After naming their cow, they were blindfolded (and for my own personal amusement, made to wear a cow vest and cowboy hat) and stuck their cow on the "farm" in the style of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Whoever had the cow that was the most upside down won. (We had a level and a PT angle measuring tools to settle disputes.)
Nils celebrates his victory in "Tip the Cow".
Here is the food. Drinks included beer from WI (Leine's), wine from IL (Galena Cellars), Kool-aid, and "Mississippi River" water (really, just from my tap, I lied about that one), and Minnesota Milk (really from WA, but hey, I lied again.) Food included sloppy joes, brats, ceddarwursts, beer bread, cheese dip, jello pretzel salad, potato salad, cheesy potatoes, and tater tot hot dish. For dessert, there was an assortment of bars.
After dinner and games, we watched Drop Dead Gorgeous. The fun part was, only three of us had seen it before. It was fun watching it with people who were hearing the jokes for the first time. Gladys, we need more bars!Bonus picture. Here is Riley (left) and our neighbor's Yorkie named Fido. We tried for a cute picture, but they wouldn't sit still.
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