The holiday season is here. Does anyone want to get together for something? Bowling party where families can bring their kids? Family friendly restaurant for food and drinks? On the other hand we can do billards.
I'm more of a fan of holiday parties twix/tween the legal holidays. Too much preparation insanity before that. That said if 12/12 and 12/19 are the dates, I vote 12/12. 12/19 will probably be a mass exodus day, making even local travel shall we say less than pleasant???
Heck, if we wait until later in the month, I might even have this place cleaned up enough to host something...
What about Royal Restaurant? (734 N St Asaph/North Old Town) That's in the area. I was there for a happy hour recently - I think there's even a room we could reserve if we wanted to and it looks like there'll be a big group http://www.yelp.com/biz/royal-restaurant-and-caterers-alexandria