CA Traveling Party – Tropical Theme

Wow – back from Californ – I – A. What an amazing trip.  Thanks to my usual last minute organizing, there were some people who weren’t able to make the party. Luckily since we were there for a good week, we got to see most everyone. Karsty gave us a wonderful private tour of SF including a beautiful view and some obviously legit Chinese food. Haroun hosted a wonderful dinner that was filled with good food, great drinks, and tons of laughs. Bruce and

Karen (on top of hosting our party) took us out wine tasting. As usual I have no idea where we went so if you read this Bruce feel free to comment on the location. We actually bought the wine for the party that day. Not to mention had a heated game of Bocce Ball where the girls claim they won… not gonna say they ended the game the second they scored more points than we did… Saturday morning was a whirlwind. We had Pete’s with Jill and then off to the party.

First, Bruce and Karen you guys were amazing! All the work put in to find tropical decorations (Everyone who came did get leid) and organize all the details… we just couldn’t have done it without you. The party went off with out a hitch.

We had grass fed steaks and jalapeño burgers compliments of Eric for the meat and Mark for the grilling. The food was great. As the night went on we transitioned to some beer pong. I’m honestly not sure I won a single game, but when you are able to play beer pong, at night, next to tiki torches, and with good friends, how can you not win? The party started at 3pm and the last people left somewhere around 1-2am. I’d say that’s a winner of a party if you ask me!

Afterwards, I got to see some other close friends: Brendan and his family (most I had not met yet), some more of Sean, Tammy, Eric, Bruce, BJ, and more. Then Eric and I took off for a 3-night adventure at Yosemite Park. We averaged a good 15 miles of hiking a day. Man that place is beautiful. Thanks so much Eric for planning that trip!

I also learned a little thing about myself. I am a Super Bowl kinda guy. Let me explain. Earlier on the trip Brendan and I were talking about how in a 7 game series, generally the better team wins. Whereas in say the Super Bowl or World Cup it’s just the best team that day, doesn’t matter if one team could win 9 out of 10 times. Well there were numerous times that I played the world series and lost, but then when we played the Super Bowl winner take all, I always won. Crazy 8’s with Brendan – he won the World Series 4-3, I won the Super Bowl game. Bruce and pool – he won the World Series like 4-1 and I won the Super Bowl. Finally Bruce and basketball shoot ‘em games – he won the World Series and the only game I won was the Super Bowl. The rest weren’t even close. Not sure what that says really, but being that I prefer football, I like it!

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