Potluck
The June BECKS birthday party died a horrible prolonged death... so long that it lasted into the end of July as BECKS-NG, only we forgot the BECKS beer when we finally had the potluck! o_0
Yes, I know, a tragedy... but the fact that it happened at all was amazing enough! (Sophia rescued it with Doodle, Leif in turn used his powers of persausion to make it actually happen)
As it was a potluck, we had: vegetable curry and rice (Sophia), Diddy Reese, cherries, and ice cream (Brian), two kinds of chocolate dessert (Jirina), empanadas (Donna), fruit salad (Carley), potato salad sandwiches (Evelyn('s mom)), lots of wine (Grace), chili pie (Justin), turkey wraps (Daniel), lasanga (Nathaniel), cheesecake (Erick), Korean beef (Eun-young), and chicken caesar salad (Leif). We had cheese and crackers too (from... Leif? Daniel? Eun-young?) Aka, enough food to feed twice as many people as the 13 or so that we actually had! Despite handing out as many as the leftovers as possible, I think I still ended up with about four meals' worth of food plus some other stuff...
Clearly, potlucks with Leif and friends (and especially Sophia/Grace/Carley!) are the thing to do. If you can actually make it happen, that is. *grins* As we were all starving by the time people trickled in (half an hour late for most-- what, did you think we'd be on time? Ok Grace was, but she had no excuse to be late!), some of the cameras were understandably neglected as we tried not to eat everything in sight before the other half of the group finally made it in!
Next time, people were saying we need more wine. I guess all hard liquor that Bill and I keep around didn't appeal? I also think we need a slightly bigger place to party. Hmm. (need to buy a house...) And maybe Apples to Apples? hehehe... maybe not?