Trey and I got to celebrate our engagement at Bombshack 1999 when the good Dr. Juan Lara whipped out some giant cardboard wedding bells and toasted us warmly. I barely new the Laras back then and it was quite touching, made me realize that this group of Trey's friends was really more like family. Like drunk family in bathrobes. Good times!
Those Bombshacks were a buttload of fun!
For 5 summers running, I threw massive parties in my parents backyard, usually around early to mid-August when everyone was back from college visiting their families. We rolled in three kegs, ordered up massive amounts of Mexican food (or I worked the grill), dressed up in crazy outfits, and generally laughed long into the night. They were referred to as the 'Bombshack' parties.
Everyone was invited: my high-school fiends, college friends, water-polo teammates, archaeology colleagues, exchange students, my sisters high-school and college friends, and the guys I grew up with on Brigden road. A wild scene with representation from every part of our lives.
I have so many fond memories from these parties... for one night a year, all the orbits of all the people I knew were synced, and everyone partied like they'd known each other for years. If I can dig up the old album that has images broken out by year, I'll make 4 more moments!
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Oh yes, I thought he was a freak. Now you have gone and gotten all knocked up by that man. Now I am stuck with him and his college shirt :)
58 weeks agoso true, so true...
58 weeks agoI still have that college shirt, and I intend to pass that along to my children who will in turn auction it for high profit online, thereby completing one of the important (and abusive) cycles of filial obligation: selling off all your parents most treasured party clothes to buy cheap wine. Er, you've done that too, right?
58 weeks agoKarek already hawked my best wig for some apple juice.
58 weeks agoOMG - we are babies!!! Ankarino and that darn College shirt...so fun!!!
65 weeks agoIt really was the nexus of a few intersecting realities... oh what you must have thought of me!
65 weeks agoseriously, we were so young! *sigh*
58 weeks agoAlso, Rache, I'll never forget how freaked out you were by the invitation that spoke of pagan dances and goat pants. You were so wary of my new boyfriend. hee hee!
58 weeks agoseriously, you guys *are* so young! - sigh
58 weeks agoI saw your devil horns profile pic from the ACDC concert--and I say 40 is the new 20!
58 weeks agoOh and congrats on making it to the top of the top 5!
69 weeks agoWish I had been around...then these would have been known as the NUCLEAR (or as we say in Texas, NUKULAR) Bombshack Parties. Guess we'll just have to revisit this in retirement.
69 weeks agoYeah... I have a feeling there might only be a crater left in the backyard after that kind of explosion.
69 weeks agoSusie and I look pretty hot 10 years ago.
69 weeks agoyour fine, sweet hotnesses have only increased with age
69 weeks agoLike a fine port or Armagnac, I'm certain you've only become more boozy!
65 weeks ago