Bits & Pieces XVI: Independence Day Celebration...and other social gatherings.
- Friday:
- I spot-checked the entire house to ensure it was clean enough to receive guests. I made the guest bed; I vacuumed both the upstairs and downstairs; I washed the bathroom rugs from both bathrooms; I dusted the furniture and floors. Cleaning sure does take quite a bit of time to accomplish.
- Kevin's friends from Chicagoland arrive...all five of them. Kevin ensures that all the guest bedrooms in this house, and Phillip's house, are squared away.
- Later on, set-up of the celebration commences. The garage is cleared of vehicles, and tables are set up to place the hor d'eorves.
- People start to arrive.
- I show guests where food is, where the pool is, and where the bathroom is.
- I snack a bit on watermellon.
- Eventually, I get in the pool. Since I was the only adult, I guess it was job to throw kids around for about five hours.
- I leave the pool all "pruny", and shower.
- Kevin and I planned on going to the fireworks, but did not go. His friends were tired from driving three hours and spending an entire day outside swimming and eating.
- Instead we all bitch about reality TV.
- We all go to bed.
- Saturday
- I wake up with a splitting head-ache. I rarely get head-aches. This one must have been from all the physical exertion of child-tossing, and consumption of chlorine and other pool chemical cleaners. I have to be careful on how fast I stand up. I have to regulate my blood pressure. :(
- Everyone arrives in Kevin's dining room and I serve all the guests breakfast.
- After that, they go pool-side and bath in the sun and swim a bit.
- I obstain from swimming because I still get splitting head-aches from standing up too fast. Urgh.
- After the pool, all seven of us make plans to go to downtown Champaign to drink and eat out.
- We go in seperate cars.
- Since I misunderstood where we were to meet up, me and three others walk around Downtown for a few minutes. Oops.
- Not too long after the extra mileage, all seven of us meet up at Picaro, which is one door down from Radio Maria. This place is hoity-toity. I decide the next time I go there I'll dress up. :|
- We make plans to go to Fiesta Café. I had to admit I really wasn't in the mood for Americanized Mexican food.
- Around 9pm: Kevin's group drives down Pecaro; My group walks over from Pecaro. Fiesta Café is closed.
- Still hungry, we all walk across the street to Basmati.
- We order.
- We realize Indian food is a great substitute when we are hungry and really don't care what we eat!
- We all go back to Kevin's house after eating mass quantities of ethnic food with curry.
- To pass the time, we watch some episodes of Ren & Stimpy. We all laugh at the "Powdered Toast Man" episode. Whodathunk, right?
- Bedtime. Even though I am tired, I still suffer from insomnia. WTF, Brain.
- Sunday
- Wake up with a head-ache, still. I am still perplexed as to the real reasons I have one.
- I drink mass quantities of water to counter-act dehydration and chemical ingestion.
- All seven of us eat breakfast.
- Later, we go sit pool-side (again) and soak in the sun. I do the same, although very, very carefully.
- As the day progresses, some people leave. We say our good-byes.
- In the mid-afternoon, the last three leave for Chicagoland. I dry-hump their car as a substitute for the hand-wave. They leave.
- Kevin and I start the huge clean-up of having multitudes of guests over his house.
- I wash five loads of laundry.
- I would just like to say that doing that much laundry sucks so very much.
- It is now near the end of the weekend.
I would say that everyone had a very good Independance Day celebration. Having Kevin's friends over is always a pleasure, since they only come down once a year. I guess throwing parties is as much fun as attending them. I just hate the clean-up after. Our refridgerator is packed full of food that was not consumed. It looks like Kevin and I will be living off of left-overs for a short while.
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