The Summary: Good friends, great food, a field trip to Tyson's garden, a half hour hail storm and one of the world's smartest and most well behaved and cuddly dogs- a Sunday afternoon thoroughly enjoyed by all. The Story: We enjoy having friends over and since Tyson loves to cook we usually plan our parties around a delicious meal. We had been hankering to get folks together and with Tyson's old roommate Garrin headed to Montana to cook at a Dude Ranch until fall this was the weekend to do it.
Per custom we kind of put off all party preparation until that morning.
Tyson headed out to collect ingredients from Frank's Produce (for avocados,tomatillos, etc) and De Laurenti (delicious snack salami) in the Pike Place Market, and Uwajimaya (giant shrimp with the heads and legs still on) and the QFC for the basics.
I headed to my local Goodwill to try and find some festive table dressings. SCORE! For $15 a got a lime green table cloth, 12 aqua cloth napkins (remember this for later in the story), a flat green basket for putting out chips in and crepe paper streamers which were later decided to be-too much (I will just save those for next time). I headed home threw all the new linens in the wash and by the time they came out of the dryer my mom and dad were there.
Mom and Dad had been up North visiting some friends and delivering a very cool and very large piece of art mom had created for them. They stopped by on their way home to say hi. Blessed with impeccable timing they arrived as we were rushedly trying to sweep, dust, and hide the general mess of the apartment. Being the troopers they are they jumped right in and helped with the cleaning but not before mom handed me a gift, get ready for it, napkin rings (I didn't own any)! How does she know these things? I immediately put them on my new napkins to a great result.
They were on the road again too soon and we were left with a spotless apartment (well about as good as it gets) ready and waiting for our guests to arrive.
It was a wonderful party and we will be plotting and scheming to throw another one again real soon!
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