Weekend Recap - Part 1

Another weekend has passed and I've finally gotten some time to kind of jot some notes about it. It's kind of nice to recap what happened because one day, I'm gonna look back on these posts and wonder what I was up to. Hopefully this will be some good reading. Too bad it was so long so I broke up this post into three parts. Let's start with Friday.

After work, Tary and I were on our way to get some soft-serve chocolate ice cream (for the 3rd time this week) when one of my best buds A.D. aka "Deabo" called and let us know that our other good friends P.N. and L.N. were having hot pot, dry style (i.e., food cooked over a skillet served family style) at their place. I had never been to their place before so I was excited for a change of scenery. A.D. then mentioned though that they (P.N. and L.N.) were a little hesitant of having too many people there because of a lack of space. He briefly talked about the possibility of having it at our house but he didn't want to impose. Tary and I didn't mind having everyone over so we agreed to host the hot pot. How can we say no to good food in the company of great friends?

So the usual cast of friends came over. We had an assortment of thinly sliced rib-eye, various greens and vegetables, and even some shrimp that was cooked with butter over an electric skillet. The kitchen table was full of food, people, and of course laughter. It was tough cooking everything so a second skillet was added to the mix. I was excited because that meant the meat would get cooked faster and more importantly, closer to my plate.

After dinner, most of our friends went back home. Some had stayed to continue just chatting. Most of the conversation was about helping our friend A.D. let his inner "Deabo" out at PAX (the upcoming nerd convention). We had so much fun chatting that we lost all track of time. I think the guys stayed over until about 4:30 AM! Oh, I would pay for that the next day...