Our neighborhood Adult Pool Party was tonight. Predictably, the theme was "the Olympics", which actually worked out pretty well. They had a great variety of international foods, and just enough campy activities to make it fun without being tiresome.
Somebody brought a kayak, and a couple of our braver men took a turn around the pool in it (by that time it was so cold, very few people were bold enough to get near the water).
Julio and I were more lucky than usual in the door prize drawings; 5 of the 12 tickets we purchased were drawn, and we won over $100 worth of gift certificates - all for things we actually use.
The strangest part of the evening was the "worm race": you bought a worm for $1, put it on a plate under a cup, then when the race began, removed the cup and "encouraged" the worm off the plate. First worm entirely off the plate won. Trouble was, it got very cold the minute the sun went down tonight, so the worms went into "hibernate" mode the minute the cold air hit them when the cups were removed. The worm that won was the only one that moved - after its "owner" lit a lighter behind it (I have a feeling it was writhing in agony). There were quite a few protestations at the method used, so it was not repeated.
We left a little early - 8am call to sing at church tomorrow, so we need to get to bed at a reasonable hour. I was actually a little glad for the excuse to bow out when we did; it was just getting to the point when people had begun to drink to excess and over half the attendees had started smoking just outside the gates, so it was shifting into an event less my style.
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