friends, food, and grips and grips of....

So, I organized a small gathering of like-minded people at the girls house. 22 people came over to enjoy the fruits of the earth, enjoy each others company, and create clouds so big that walking into the living room felt like you were next to a fog machine!
Started off with the endless mission for parking in SF. The DPT needs to get something figured out for some areas. We need public parking areas! Anyway, its part of the life up here so what can you do? Walked into their apartment and immediately, the aroma of fresh baked goods hit me like a brick upside my head. I LOVE that smell. After about a half hour, pretty much the whole crew was there. Let the tasting begin! The schedule was as follows: Endulge, endulge, Dinner, endgule, endulge, endulge, dessert, endulge. 5 different fruits to taste, plus dinner and dessert in the mix!

Started with a tasty Durban, next was the AK, for dinner we had delicious tacos and burritos! Next up was the Misty, NL x K, and finally Sour D. So yummy! Personally, I liked the SourD the most. At points, I felt as if I were back in high school...but I knew what to expect. So much better that way. Ended up being to one that distributed the fruits so it was tough to really sit back and enjoy (just like my wine tastings) but I really enjoy it at a different level. Its awesome to see my friends having so much fun and sometimes being on the outside is better.

After all the "tastings" we decided to use to remaining fruits and create a fruit salad. The mixture was delicious and only prolonged our joy from the previous couple of hours. Next up was dessert...everything you can imagine. It was truly paradise for us "like-minded" folks. Specialty's Cookies, home made cookies, (to) made some fantasmic peanut butter cups as well.
I gained like 10 lbs. from dessert alone.


Afterwards, reality set in again pretty quickly. Gave my buddy a ride home and to help him shave his head. Very surreal, but at the same time, the most reality I have experienced in a long time. Next up on my agenda...(bh, bw) engagement party on Saturday. Sunday is BBQ day...and salty balls. I gotta finish making it tonight!

Everybody, ask me about salty balls.....