It's like karaoke but you're singing along with a piano accompanist. So much fun (but so much harder than karaoke!) Happy birthday, Amanda! Thanks for 20 years of friendship!
Later that evening, I got an Apogee JAM adapter that lets you jack your guitar's audio signal into your computer. I spent the rest of the night playing around with GarageBand.
After I get a massage, my voice drops several whole-steps lower! I'm a tenor 1, but after a massage, I can make it all the way down to a C1 with really loud chest-resonance.
On nice days in the summer, they have a painted community piano that they wheel out and put next to the dog park. Any one that wants to come by and play can use it. It's one of the coolest things I've seen in a public city park!
After our durian experience, Jeremy took the three of us into some hotel's lobby so that he could loudly play the piano for us and sing (at 3am). Needless to say, he only made it about halfway through his first song before the management insisted that we leave. Hahahaha.
After we were done opening presents, we had a contest to see who could turn the Christmas tree on from the greatest distance (the tree's hooked up to a clapper, remember?). Here's me celebrating my win all the way from across the room. My dad said my ability to clap the loudest probalby had something to do with my "callused palms." Whatever that means. hahaha.