Hey Dan,
It would be great if you could make it! It's always a super time! I'll repeat the link for the directions below, but if you have any questions, please do email! Actually, we had a good friend in Norwich, and it was 1:15 to his house.
Are you interested in a Yankee Swap? I see Tim Shawn just replied in the positive, so we already have at least 6 participating!
For anyone who doesn't know/remember what a Yankee Swap is...
Each participant brings a wrapped gift. Generally no more than $10 value. Each person's name is put in a hat.
The first person drawn gets to choose from any of the gifts and unwraps it (to oohs and ahhs, no doubt). Another name is drawn, and that person chooses and unwraps a gift. Now, they get to decide if they want to keep it, or swap for what the first person got.
This continues, with each person opening a gift and decidiing whether or not to trade for something that was previously opened.
Most of the time, after the last person participating has either kept or swapped, the person who was chosen first gets to decide whether they'd like to keep what the have or swap for any of the other gifts.
This is always a lot of fun, and more often than not there are one or two gifts that are traded again and again!
Anyway, hope you can make it, and let's hope for good weather!
Chuck