I Suck At Cookouts

On Sunday, my friends (Cass and Ellen) had a few people over for a Memorial Day cookout. Now, I suck at cookouts. It has been a while since I got to hang out with Cass and Ellen.

Needless to say, it was a great time. It's always good to hang out with friends. I feel like I don't do it as much these days. Joining in the festivities were my friends (Marc, Kelley, Meredith, Doug, and Andrea).

Anyway, Cass and Ellen recently had a deck added to their house. So the cookout was a good way to christen the deck. And by christen the deck, I don't mean vomit in the yard like in cookouts past at Cass and Ellen's. Although I suppose in Kelley's defense (for vomiting that time), she was having a bad day.

I would recount the details of that eventful cookout where Kelley blew chunks, but sadly I was equally inebriated... being her drinking buddy and all. The only things that I can remember from that incident were that Marc and Kelley had gotten into a car accident that day. So in an effort to make Kelley feel better, Cass and I pushed booze into her (not like it was hard). Of course, I also imbibed quite a bit too... so much so that I rolled around a bit in the grass... which eventually ended up on Cass's couch. Needless to say, I do remember Kelley vomiting on Cass's bricks in the corner... good times... good times.

Unfortunately, we are all old fogies now. We just don't imbibe like we used to. So there was no vomiting this year to christen the deck.

One of the more memorable incidents of the day happened with one of Cass and Ellen's pet (Seamus). Seamus is a little tiny dog. I think he is a shih tzu. Anyway, it turns out that Seamus really likes our baby daughter (Briana).

When Karen brought Briana inside to get changed, Seamus followed. In fact, Seamus hovered around Briana making sure she was okay and all of that. It was very cute. I probably would not have believed it had I not witnessed it firsthand.

I had gone inside to help Karen change Briana's diaper. So there was Briana.... simply lying on a changing mat on the floor. She had never seen a dog before, so her eyes were fixed on Seamus. Seamus kept hovering over her. He would soon lick Briana's legs... then her tiny hands... and eventually her face. In fact, Seamus kept licking Briana's face as though it were a bad make out session that I just started laughing uncontrollably. Even after pulling Seamus away, he returned to lick Briana. It was too funny.

And I must say, Briana was good. She didn't cry during the whole thing. She just kept looking at Seamus with awe. But that was definitely a memorable moment. I wish I had a video camera for that.

Anyway, I like I said, the cookout was a great time. I had a lot of fun. Hopefully there will be more cookouts during the summer.