Halloweiner 2012

This is over a month late, but we hosted the most successful Halloweiner ever this year, and I wanted to at least get some of my picture up before I forgot completely.

We got a whole bunch of different kinds of meat this year, including some pretty exciting sausages. Here's a picture of everything on the counter

We also got some lobsters, which was a first for Halloweiner. It helps to have kitchen with a stove in addition to the grill. We get to cook a lot more things.

The lobsters were actually kind of sad. I think they were out of the sea water too long before we cooked them. But the octopus was thoroughly exciting

That last picture shows our lovely serving area, with all sorts of tasty morsels out to try. I believe the lobster, rabbit, and octopus are all on display there. Those were some of the first things to come out. As you'll see, it's important to get the interesting stuff out early in the evening.

I was pretty proud of the serving area. We made fancy signs and everything. But then the meat was so staggered that we barely needed them. At least we got to use our new serving dishes.

The rabbit came out so good last year that we decided to do two this year. They were delicious again, and we had twice as much stuffing that last year, which was a definite plus

As I mentioned, we also had a bunch of exciting sausage. There were so many that I decided to use the wrappings in the pictures to keep them straight.

However, it appears that this plan did not last long. I very quickly became to distracted to get pictures of everything and too drunk to care.

Of the unpictured things, the veal shoulder was the most delicious thing of the night. Alligator remains fishy and chewy, and I don't think we'll be getting it again. All of the sausages were delicious, though my favorite was something we dubbed "duck, duck, brandy". It was made of duck breast, duck liver, and brandy. And it was brought by a friend of a friend who I now remember only as jerk-face. I think we had an altercation during a drinking game that left me belligerent.

Surprisingly (though perhaps not, given my stunning lack of pictures) we finished the keg around 6:30. Some sober people went to get fancy beer, and a (sober) friend and I went to Safeway to pick up Coors Light. By the time we got back, the meat was mostly cooked and the drinking games were about to begin.

I only stayed up until 11 or so. I played a final game of beer pong that I think did me in completely. But that may have been in my best interest, since the next morning was relatively pain-free for me. The rest of the party kept going until the second 2:30 in the morning (gotta love Daylight Saving's time) and they were really feeling it in the morning. We are none of us in college anymore, and parties like Halloweiner make me wonder how we survived at all.

I'm already looking forward to next year.