Party Time!

Well, I'm writing this at the conclusion of my birthday party. The entire day was just incredibly awesome. I woke up in the late morning and hung out for a little bit before going to the Lyon center to watch some new guys try to be Tommy Trojan. I'm graduating this year, so I need to pass the opportunnity on to someone else, and today was one of the try-outs.

When I got back, Devin drove some of us over to buy alcohol and supplies for the party. I bought a lot of alcohol, more than ever before, and a lot of fruit, to go into my special drink. When we got back, Natalie and Hieu were immensly helpful in cutting the fruit with me. After cutting everything into cm^3 sections [TY, LK], we opened all the alc0hol and put it into the 10-gallon container that we were going to make, and serve, the punch in. Basically, we had Vodka, Coconut Rum, Bacardi 151, Sour Apple Snappes, and Peach Snappes. The fruit sat there for about four hours, absorbing the 2 gallons of alcohol into little shots within themselves. We went to get dinner, and then came back to add the Sprite and Fruit Punch, with a bit of Sunny Delight for that extra something. Thing tasted delicious, never being able to taste any alcohol, with a slightly sweet flavor.

People started to arrive right at 11:00, and by midnight, there were probably about 50 people in the apartment. Just the right number to seem full, yet still have room to move around and talk to people. The 'cowboy punch' as a girl from Texas called it, ran out relatively quickly...all 10 gallons of it! That didn't put a damper on the party, however, as Natalie and I spent a lot of time on the playlist for the evening. The songs were so fresh and so clean that people kept dancing for quite some time, and at times, I thought I was going to pass out from all the dancing I had done. The party didn't officially end until about 3:30, and in all, was the most fun I've ever had at one of my birthday parties. Thanks to everyone who came (including my boss from work!) and for the gifts that you guys gave me (again, including my boss from work!) Birthday party #22 will go down in my book as one of the great ones, and casts a shadow on the event that came from the number 21.