#1: 2004
The 4th was on a Sunday, but I don't remember what day we actually began. Was it Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Saturday, Sunday, Monday? I recall that we had a loose idea of a schedule beginning in the morning each day. We spent a lot of time swimming, eating, drinking, being musical, and trying to watch a movie.
Especially in the early days, we used the party as the kick in the pants to get home improvement projects done. It gave us a deadline. Otherwise, we just wouldn't have been motivated to do anything! We moved into the Pelican Beach house in January of 2004, so we were, essentially, still moving in. I believe our dining room table (the one we currently have) arrived a few weeks earlier. The Pelican Beach house did not have a good TV spot other than over the fireplace. These days, flat screen TVs are commonplace. Not in 2004. This was our golden opportunity to be early adopters and spend far too much money on our first flatscreen. The night before the party began, Don stayed up into the wee hours mounting the coveted TV on the wall. It wouldn't have been so late if we hadn't bought, assembled, and returned a DIY TV stand and bought and assembled its replacement all in the same evening. RC Wiley didn't like us much that evening. Doreen and I hung new pictures on the walls while Don and Dave worked on the furniture. Eventually we all went to bed and began the next day as walking dead. But the house looked great!
The first evening, musicians jammed in the front room while the rest of us got drunk in the kitchen between songs. Tequila and Blue Island Pucker shots around. This is the night that Debbie Hasterok added a new Tequila story to her lore. Cuervo was not kind. On the way home, Gary was driving and Debbie couldn't take it: she puked all over the car. (Is this exaggerated, or is that what really happened? Help!) Anyway, she was violently ill. Laura and JJ Fusch didn't fare much better with Cuervo over the weekend. Although, there are some classic blackmail photos. At one point JJ passed out at our house for the night and slipped out the front door early in morning. She groggily said, "I'll be back..." We didn't see her for another year. We drank a lot that year. Don practically wore out our blender making margaritas. He could not keep up with the demand. I vaguely remember there being an issue with the toilet backing up. My dad saved the day by bringing over a plunger. We didn't have one. As I recall, he and Doreen worked through the plumbing mess together.
Our next musical night, we gathered around the piano and sang musical theater songs. On one of the mornings, we attempted to watch Jesus Christ Superstar. I remember Christine and me sitting on folding chairs trying to be awake. We had this new TV, so we had to watch a movie- no matter how tired we all were! We were amazed by the new technology until the TV kept restarting every time there was a bright flash of light on screen. The irony was that during the scene when Jesus throws a TV, the TV didn't restart. Ha! Ha! Glad we spent 2k on that... But, no one else we knew had one. So there. I honestly don't remember why The Godfather got bumped.
Lisa, is this the year that the bottle of Blue Curacao busted on the driveway?
Janell's cousin from Australia was visiting. He and Andy pouted in the backyard, dissing America while we celebrated the 4th.
With the aid of pictures, here's who came through that inaugural year: Lisa, Dave, and baby Lacey; Laura & Doreen, Debbie (Mom) and John; Aunt Dottie & Uncle Roger; Anthony; My dad (my mom was in Utah); Tony and Siri (pregnant with Little Tony), Duke & Joanne; Sean Weigand with his wife Robin and daughter Olivia; Debbie, Gary, & Katie; Christine Kellar; Winston Murray; Dottie & JJ Fusch; Brad Torchin & Julie (Don and Tony were in a Fleetwood Mack cover band with them around that time); Jane & Antonio; Barb and Michael (I worked with Barb at Washington Federal Savings); Lisa & Andy; Crystal & Janell; Jessica, Jason, and baby Jocelyn; Dave Sankuer (he brought Dance, Dance Revolution, but we never played); last, but not least, Molly (Dobby joined our family a few weeks later.)
Especially in the early days, we used the party as the kick in the pants to get home improvement projects done. It gave us a deadline. Otherwise, we just wouldn't have been motivated to do anything! We moved into the Pelican Beach house in January of 2004, so we were, essentially, still moving in. I believe our dining room table (the one we currently have) arrived a few weeks earlier. The Pelican Beach house did not have a good TV spot other than over the fireplace. These days, flat screen TVs are commonplace. Not in 2004. This was our golden opportunity to be early adopters and spend far too much money on our first flatscreen. The night before the party began, Don stayed up into the wee hours mounting the coveted TV on the wall. It wouldn't have been so late if we hadn't bought, assembled, and returned a DIY TV stand and bought and assembled its replacement all in the same evening. RC Wiley didn't like us much that evening. Doreen and I hung new pictures on the walls while Don and Dave worked on the furniture. Eventually we all went to bed and began the next day as walking dead. But the house looked great!
The first evening, musicians jammed in the front room while the rest of us got drunk in the kitchen between songs. Tequila and Blue Island Pucker shots around. This is the night that Debbie Hasterok added a new Tequila story to her lore. Cuervo was not kind. On the way home, Gary was driving and Debbie couldn't take it: she puked all over the car. (Is this exaggerated, or is that what really happened? Help!) Anyway, she was violently ill. Laura and JJ Fusch didn't fare much better with Cuervo over the weekend. Although, there are some classic blackmail photos. At one point JJ passed out at our house for the night and slipped out the front door early in morning. She groggily said, "I'll be back..." We didn't see her for another year. We drank a lot that year. Don practically wore out our blender making margaritas. He could not keep up with the demand. I vaguely remember there being an issue with the toilet backing up. My dad saved the day by bringing over a plunger. We didn't have one. As I recall, he and Doreen worked through the plumbing mess together.
Our next musical night, we gathered around the piano and sang musical theater songs. On one of the mornings, we attempted to watch Jesus Christ Superstar. I remember Christine and me sitting on folding chairs trying to be awake. We had this new TV, so we had to watch a movie- no matter how tired we all were! We were amazed by the new technology until the TV kept restarting every time there was a bright flash of light on screen. The irony was that during the scene when Jesus throws a TV, the TV didn't restart. Ha! Ha! Glad we spent 2k on that... But, no one else we knew had one. So there. I honestly don't remember why The Godfather got bumped.
Lisa, is this the year that the bottle of Blue Curacao busted on the driveway?
Janell's cousin from Australia was visiting. He and Andy pouted in the backyard, dissing America while we celebrated the 4th.
With the aid of pictures, here's who came through that inaugural year: Lisa, Dave, and baby Lacey; Laura & Doreen, Debbie (Mom) and John; Aunt Dottie & Uncle Roger; Anthony; My dad (my mom was in Utah); Tony and Siri (pregnant with Little Tony), Duke & Joanne; Sean Weigand with his wife Robin and daughter Olivia; Debbie, Gary, & Katie; Christine Kellar; Winston Murray; Dottie & JJ Fusch; Brad Torchin & Julie (Don and Tony were in a Fleetwood Mack cover band with them around that time); Jane & Antonio; Barb and Michael (I worked with Barb at Washington Federal Savings); Lisa & Andy; Crystal & Janell; Jessica, Jason, and baby Jocelyn; Dave Sankuer (he brought Dance, Dance Revolution, but we never played); last, but not least, Molly (Dobby joined our family a few weeks later.)
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