Bradley University St. Patrick's Day Reunion Party

I'm half asleep right now after the Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois) Reunion at our house last night. No, I didn't have any green beer. In fact, the most potent thing that was consumed was caffeinated coffee. We served corned beef and cabbage, grilled veggies and flan. Everybody else brought, sushi, garlic chicken, chicken veggie noodle dish, 2 kinds of salad and teriyaki venison that one of the alumni actually hunted and prepared. It was much more tasty than I expected. There was also a 5 layer lemon crunch cake that was out of this world.

Here's the Bradley guys who haven't seen each other in about 40 years.

The wives got to chat together in the kitchen. I had such fun meeting and getting to know them. We shared parenting war stories.

The guys had a blast recalling memories of leaving Hawaii so many years ago for the mysterious, exciting Mainland. Everyone stayed until well after 11:00 and we went to bed after midnight. I feel like I have a hang-over this morning, but we all had such a great time.


I love Hawaii parties. It's generally pot luck and very casual. I never have to ask anyone to remove their shoes and everyone pitches in to help. At the end of the party everybody takes home food for the next day's meal. We still have a ton of food left over so we're inviting my brother and sister-in-law for dinner tonight.



HOWEVER: Would you believe I found a pair of night stands on Craigslist (before I went to bed last night) so we're going to look at it today to see if we might be able to use them next to our new-old bed. We'll see...

POSTSCRIPT: Well... We went to see the night stands but didn't buy them. They just weren't of very good quality. Oh shucks! Back to the drawing board.