This Will Be A Year For Wild Dinner Parties

We need to start a new activity in the new year so why not wildly themed dinner parties?



Would anyone care to join us?

Capers & Blueberries

Dinner with the other Big Canoers Tuesday night went wonderfully. Good conversation and delicious food. I dunno who cooked what but I know that I ate it all.

 I never thought I'd see the day

 Yuula teaching Carol her rendition of numerals

thanks Ted, thanks Carol

(what's in the box?)

Festive Foods And Christmas Cackles

Trunks came over last night for some festive foods and Christmas cackles. The girls haven't seen each other since Halloween, but they picked up right where they left off.



Laura & I threw together a tasty little meal of an Estler classic with some roasted red potatoes, cornbread and the tastiest salad yet. It went over well, considering we filled up on puppy chow before hand and still managed to eat 95% of the real meal.




The girls exchanged gifts. Yuula got Isabella a stroller for her dollies and a sweet little blue hoodie to match one she herself is getting for Christmas but doesn't know yet. Yuula got an awesome fairy tutu, wings and a love-wand. It is her new dance outfit. Video will follow in the days to come.



Throughout the evening we discussed what would be the best gift we could give our significant others and we came up with a few good ideas...





Feel free to never buy these for anyone.

Hello McLoud

You know, like Back to the Future, "Hello McFly!". No? On with it then.

We had a guest for dinner last night. A old friend, and just when I've reached the point in life where I can really say I have people I can classify as "old friends", so that maybe this was not than just any dinner but an actual turning point in my existence that would substantiate the miraculous evolution of man since the dawn of time... Or maybe it was just dinner.



Kevin McLoud, old friend (previously mentioned) from back in the Emerald Marquis days, living it up in Boston, running free like wild dogs, Kevin and I were. Since then we've both settled down, found our little spots in the world, our other halves and began to live the good life. Ten years later we catch up to fill each other in on it all over some Indian pizza and wine.



Kevin married Erika Holland, whom he was dating back when we all stomped the same grounds, so that's quite nice. They now have two kids, Brady 18 months and Kherington, who I think he said was just four months. They live on a nice fat plot of land up in Penn Yan New York where Kevin spends his days fixing up old trucks and riding his "crotch rocket" (a term I try to avoid at all costs) and Erika raises her children to become fine upstanding citizens and, at this point, probably keep food from dribbling down their chins.



We had a very nice night sitting around the dining room table, eating too much, drinking just enough, and reminiscing about the old days.



So much so that I pulled out an old photo album and we flipped thru photos from 2000 & 2001, recounting stories of jackass challenges & Dutch twirls & pterodactyl attacks. Sounds scary but those were good times.



Next time we'll meet up at their place. Hi Erika.

Those Möllbergs

Everytime I teach somewhere, in the states or out, there's always one family thats wants me to come over for a visit and supper, and if we're lucky, a evening of adult conversation & drinking. Here in Sweden, the Möllbergs are that family. And it was a stunner.



I'm not gonna go too much in depth here, but you can ask me about it next time you see me. It's really a evening best recounted in person. I have a couple photos and an actual video, but mainly I was just enjoying the evening with quite the erudite and scintillating family.








Here is Klaus playing his Stradivarius singing saw in candlelight to the delight of his guests. Sorry about the dark video, but it was the perfect backdrop at that moment.





Coming home first thing tomorrow morning, 5am. I am quite excited to get on that plane. Hopefully just pass out and wake up stateside.