Ugly Christmas Sweater Party 2009

The weekend before Christmas is usually a time of last-minute shopping, packing for travel and holiday parties. In fact, Dan Kelly and I had put together the details to host a sweet holiday party featuring the famous ugly Christmas sweater. But not this year!

Our grand plan to host the biggest and baddest ugly Christmas sweater party was thwarted by Mother Nature when a winter storm dumped roughly 16 inches of snow on the District. Would-be-guests were left snowed-in at their homes as Metro shut down above ground stations and city roads were nearly impassable. So many ugly Christmas sweaters never saw the light of day because of this rare winter dumping.

But because Dan and I have that never say die spirit, the party went on as planned. Sure, it was just 5 of us donning our funktified holiday garb. But damnit, we had some fun. And I have to give a shout out to Robert Fairbairn for being the only one to brave the blizzard and drive to the party. Granted, Rob has a vehicle that can handle the snow and did go to college where snow is plentiful. But I digress, we had a blast, played some Wii and Rock Band and documented the madness with a few images. We'll try again next year, so start looking for your ugly sweater today.





After you've looked at these images, I'd like to point out that finding an ugly Christmas sweater isn't as easy as you might think. Everyone thinks, "gosh, those are easy to find. I mean who wants those!" But hell, it took Jo and I quite a bit of leg work to finally track some down. We ultimately found two girls Christmas sweaters at the Georgia Ave. Thrift Shop in the Brightwood neighborhood, which turned out to be perfect.

Labels: Entertainment, Nightlife, Party

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