Estes Park - We arrived back in the Springs last night and I am currently sitting at the hospital with no patients to take care of and alot of time on my hands. So, I thought I would jot down a few remembrances of the First Annual Gobblerfest in no particular chronological order. And yes, I totally stole the style I'm about to use from Sue Spengler. Thanks, Sue!
Arriving last to find good food, wine, whiskey, a warm fire and a room full of friends - What's smelly?: Princess Di - Led Zeppelin lyrics = bad teenage poetry - Excitable and loud Mike C. - Brandy's clock trick - Lauren finding me in the bathtub and preventing me from cutting my head off - plastic foam earplugs that have a noxious odor - the miracle of homemade whipped cream - Mark's nighttime arias - comfortable air mattresses, who'da thought - Olwyn eating raspberries off the tips of her fingers - delicious food - "I'm going to kick her in the perineum" "I don't like this game" - Space Troll! Space Trollop! Space Wizard! - "This hike is cranking my calves" - Ian's rocky breech birth - Bedding down animals - crying- laughing- "I can't carry the ring Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you!" - Drew's amazing death on a pike- D&D power struggles - "First, I puked in the bedroom..." - Dustin's amazing gluten free pumpkin pie - Olwyn sleeping in fetal position on the couch - Alex being a first class dungeon master who against all odds, got us through a crawl in one session - trying on evil for a change - Aaron force feeding Bettina - Raisins and licorice with a side of elementary school cafeteria food (hold the corn dogs) - waking up Bettina (sorry) - musing to yourself "Did Aaron barf on my shoes?" - brie - Mary Poppins - Olwyn and Brandy hiking without water - Gem Lake - Ian's crucified snow angel - Mark's beautiful pottery (and thanks for bringing the burners) - cooking vegetables over an open flame while it's snowing - hot toddies - not fitting everything in the car - the snow on the drive back - having PMS - Mark is posable - malfunctioning waterbottles (they're now easier to open!) - Aaron's dad sweater - Bettina's fuzzy collar - Brandy in the apron(which I need to drop off for you, don't know why I took it back with me) - the gift of giving one apron and going home to find another had arrived from my mother - freezing my butt off on the lodge porch talking to my grandfather - Annyong running in the parking lot - breakfast! (with green chile) - Aaron Retka, the dwarf - John's amazing disappearing vomit - non-smoking Jenny - Thieves with their pockets full of silverware - Note to self: when you have a Resist Fire spell, save it until you actually confront the dragon - snow - "Do you know what hiking means?" - Connor sneaking around the cabin in the middle of the night- getting everyone around the table for dinner - Hayrides! Ponies! - Ian's potato mashing drill (and his 35lbs of potatoes) - Turkey turning into turkey soup - "The living room looks like a special episode of GynoChat" - Spotted dogs and non-spotted dogs
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