Christmas Morning

I wake up relatively refreshed for only getting 3 hours of sleep. Mark showed up punctual as ever at exactly 9am. After the mix of snow and rain my driveway is basically slush, we take some time brushing the gunk out of the back of the truck and laying down a tarp. We actually get everything loaded up rather easily. I cover the arcade in another tarp and tie everything down for the trip. I say goodbye and a big thank you to Mark and start loading up the truck.

The monitor and the computer I put in the front cab with us. After we load up all of the presents there is very little room for my wife and me. We had foolishly left her car at her parents the night before so we didn't have any choice but to pack ourselves in. I had very little elbow room but I shouldn't complain because I don't think she was able to move at all.

We arrive at my parents house on Christmas morning, slightly behind schedule but not too bad. My brother Casey tells my parents to go into the bedroom and close the door. Then he grabs my brother in law Steve, and the three of us unload the arcade and put it into my parents game room. I reassemble the arcade and put on the sideart (it was delivered to my parents by mistake and my brother was going to bring it to me when we did the wiring but my mom and put the package in her car to give me at a Christmas party and then forgot and left it in her car).

After seven months I finally had an arcade in my parents game room. They were surprised and very excited, especially my mom who said she had always wanted an arcade game and was already picking which one of my dads fake slot machines was going to get shipped off to my uncle. It really made all the work worthwhile especially when my nephew Meryk got all excited about grandma and grandpa's new toy before it was even plugged in or set up. My parents argued over which one would be first to play, they played Millipede and Ms Pac-man and Asteroids. A little later my brother and I got a chance to play some 2 player Joust against each other in tribute to the machines origins when it was made in 1983 (I won both games).

I'm waiting to get some more pictures from Christmas morning but these are the ones I have now.