Well no one blew off their finger…

The Race is over, the Keg is Tapped. 

We had a great party on Deckzilla for the 4th of July. As mentioned before, a large group of us ran the Peachtree and then we raced home to join the others for the festivities. In the past we have barbequed pork (many of my friends compete in the Memphis in May Barbeque competition so the food is always good), but this year we wanted to do something different. So our friend Glenn, who is the chef at a local restaurant, was able to secure a ton of quality seafood so we decided to have a “low country boil.” By the way, I highly recommend having a talented chef as a friend and neighbor. Glenn slaved away over a boiling pot (much like a witch) and produced some of the best food I have ever had.

A great time was had by everyone. Crab legs were eaten, keg beer was drank, dogs played we even had a pool set up for the little kiddies to frolic in. Of course the real fun began when the little ones went to bed and the adults only had the responsibility of the baby monitors (one of these days I have to do a post about the sheer volume of baby monitors in the neighborhood…I mean Deckzilla looked like mission control with all the monitors plugged in).

As the title to this post indicates there were no injuries, but we did come close. Rich, tired from the morning’s race not to mention the exuberant drinking shortly afterwards, had a brief moment of concern. After lighting a firework of some sort, he threw the lighter instead of the firework. He quickly realized his mistake and threw the firework, but we didn’t find the lighter until morning. Of course that act earned him our ridicule for the rest of the night.

But the truly amazing thing is, none of the little ones woke up for more than a second even with things exploding right outside their window. Ainsley came the closest. After a very loud and bright explosion I went up to check on her…she sat up in bed, pointed out the window and said, “Uht Oh.” But apparently the long day of cheering the racers on and playing with all her friends in the pool and yard was too much for a not-yet-two-year-old, and she promptly fell back asleep.

Well, I’m looking forward to the next party…that is once we get finished cleaning up from this one. Thanks to everyone who helped out with time and money.