For New Years Eve, our Landlady invited us out to her lake property for a bonfire. For those not familiar with the Spokane area, Newman lake is a pretty lake surrounded by cute little cabins about 100 million miles outside of Spokane.

After a drive that felt like years through the fog and over icy roads, we finally arrived. Carrene had really put on a spread. In addition to us, there were three other couples. Everyone was really nice.

This was amazing!

The fire started out pretty small, but after a while it put off some serious heat, which was much appreciated as it was a steady 24 degrees out that night. Eventually the snow melted on my boots from the heat of the bonfire.

We left the lake and made it home by close to 11pm. In our final hour of 2012 we thawed out, took a call from Angelica and Jessica wishing us a happy new year, and adorning Neko in festive ribbon.

Yeah...no one parties like us :)