by laura beth

We spent New Year's Eve with Matt and Chris Rice in Long Beach. Matt has been a good friend of Kenny's for years, and they were groomsmen for each other's wedding. Matt and Chris recently had a little baby boy, Alexander. You can check out more of Matt's great drawings here.

Several friends came over, we played games, lit sparklers at midnight, and stayed up to watch Sunshine. Kenny and I slept in the moho, which was parked around the corner from the Rice's house. A lady kept staring at us from inside her house when we first pulled up early in the evening, and the next morning she came out and said, "I'm glad you didn't light a fire." Hmmmm.