Not the New Year's that we planned
Our plan for New Year's Eve was to eat snacks, play some games, and see if we could stay up until midnight. W. and MC also thought they'd drop by for a while. We're all going about our day when a child goes to take a shower and discovers sewage had backed up into the downstairs bathtub. It's not great, but this has happened before and J. owns a long snake for running through the pipes. So he does that, and nothing. The drain is not opening and the contents of the bathtub are not going anywhere. The house was starting to smell... not so sweet. M. and WC decide that maybe they'll just stay home and invite us to come there if we want. After a trip to the home store, the drain is still not opening, so we decide to take W. and MC up on their offer. We go, we have snacks, we play games, and we have our toast at 11:00-ish so we can get home before midnight and throw more hay to the horses. Unsurprisingly the drain is still not opened, but the contents of the bathtub are ...