watergun party

Great fun at Luisa's and Reid's watergun party yesterday. Some of you may recall my Blathering from last year's party, partly because Andrea immortalized the photo of me in a t-shirt for Interfilk and by Parki's Anti-Blathering parody featuring a photo of me from the party.

Upon arriving first at the party, Jeff and I discovered that Luisa had coordinated the creation of special t-shirts for her family in honour of the typo in my Relay For Life Blathering where I meant to write that Reid, Luisa, Michael and Ronnie were my first non-filk friends to see Urban Tapestry perform. Except I accidentally left out the word "filk" (thanks to Chris Conway for pointing this out!).

Anyway, I love their t-shirts. (See photo at the top of this page) The lowercase letters on each t-shirt comprise each person's posl-id. Ronnie's is "r2e2" because "rae" would have been the same as his father's posl-id.

Near the end of the party, Christine Miller asked me how she could be one of my non-friends, too. :-D

Some more photos...

Harald Koch (writes as "chk" in Blatherchat):





Peter Cook with son Jonathan:





Jeff in watergun battle mode:





Michelle and ScottM. Michelle is somewhat blurred because she is in the midst of trying to hit Scott in the chest. Scott had given her a big hug earlier in the evening while he was wearing wet clothes (and hers were dry):





Tom West (Michelle's husband):





Joanne and Rita:





Weaponry abandoned on the battlefield during dinner:





Dinner was an impressive spread; we all stuffed ourselves silly. Luisa manned the barbecue and cooked up a feast of chicken breasts, hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, chicken souvlaki and also provided plates of fruit, vegetables, homemade offerings. People contributed drinks, food and desserts in addition to what Luisa had prepared until the buffet table was groaning beneath all the food. Dessert included a selection of banana cake, lemon mousse cake, two types of icecream cake, ice cream sandwiches, poppy seed cake with icing, and an assortment of candy, chips and cookies. There were Krispy Kreme and Tom Horton doughnuts out earlier in the day, but the KKs were gone before I could see what kind had been brought.

I'm getting hungry just typing all this.

I've posted the photos I took here but am only leaving these pics up for a couple of days so that attendees can scoop the photographs they want. I'll be posting some of these in upcoming Blatherings.

Many, many thanks to Reid, Luisa, Ronnie and Michael for hosting such a wonderful party. They're some of the best non-friends I've ever had.

;-)