At 6PM on December 12, Greg and Cathy Hockel are hosting the Christmas Party this year. The address is 103 Longfellow Dr., Millersville, MD, 21108. Their phone number is 443-618-0563. Click here for directions.

Potluck

The club via our host will provide drinks, cups, plates, napkins, and utensils. It’s potluck so please bring a dish to share. Bring your own beer and wine.  Click here for the potluck signup. The password is ACC2024.

White Elephant Gift Exchange

As usual, we will have a White Elephant gift exchange with the party. Please bring a wrapped gift for the exchange under $25.00. The gift exchange is completely voluntary.  

Everyone who brings a gift draws a number. The person who draws #1 then picks a gift, opens it, and shows it to the rest of the company. Then, in ascending numerical order, the participants choose to either pick and unwrap a new gift from the gift pile or “steal” a previously unwrapped gift. If a gift is “stolen”, the person who had their gift taken from them gets to pick from the gift pile or “steal” a gift from someone else. The turn then passes to the next number (if a gift was chosen from the pile) or to the person who was just robbed (if a gift was stolen). Gifts can only be stolen two times (the third owner is the final owner), and a gift cannot be immediately re-stolen. When all the gifts have been opened, the game is over. 

Camera club folklore tells of a gift so bad that it has been re-gifted at our Christmas party for ~30 years. It disappears and is lost for years at a time, then suddenly reappears. That gift is the Pretty Neat Cosmetic Organizer.