Yoh ho ho and an entire cask o’ rum!
We were some thirsty bastards!!!
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Pirates and Wenches party ’07 went well and didn’t even have to scuttle the ship.
This year’s journey bringed us some foreign crew members. We had a guest from a “whole other country” he came up to KC from Dallas to party with cap’n and crew and several from some ports not near as far but well over an hour’s sail. Some of the faces were new and some were from last year’s crew. It was a great mixture of new and old.
In short…the party was fun, lots and lots of rum now gone. But ther be a manager at one of the local liquor stores that were happy to see me. Heard after out purchase he was headed out to the Caribbean for a vacation on the proffits from the party.
The highlight o this bash were a surprise delivered dock side (ok, front lawn). Some prankster left an ole toilet (porcelain party crasher) on the front lawn…yes it was a party go’er but no one will fess up as to who bringed and who taked away. All the cap’n knows is it isn’t there now!
The youngsters of the crew had a great time with the porcelain party crasher as they be a bit more tanked up than some of us older crew. They took turns sitting on it in their costumes and getting their pictures taken, oh what great joy their parents must be experiencing….hey I’m parent to a coupe of them yung uns and I aint so proud!!! Oh well all in fun! The fun and games stopped when they tried to bring it inside and down a flight of stairs….then I slipped out of cap’n roll and into dad role. I could see two drunken 20 som-tins carrying this ole toilet down a flight of stairs….CRASH bang!!! Dad said…NO, take er outside. So they did, directly into the neighbor’s lawn across the street. That neighbor doesn’t have quite the sense of humor that ole Cappy professes to have so again round up the 20 som-tins and told them to bring their ole porcelain friend home. The older crew got quite a chuckle out of all of this. Cappy gave em all the evil eye and shared if the porcelain party crasher doesn’t go home it will end up in a certain person’s cubicle at work…piece by piece…and Cappy meant it. I am sure all who read this yarn will be surprised that yes the party crasher did go home that night and is not in anyone’s cubicle today.
Other than the porcelain party crasher all went well. Guests were as pirates typically are fashionably on time. The party started at 1900 or for you landlubbers 7PM., and ran till about 12:30 in the morning. All guests except for one poor soul were in fashionable pirate attire. Some were quite creative, one couple made an appearance as software and movie pirates…..awesome thought process!! The one lone sole that didn’t wear a costume…had the fine honor of clearing his throat, quieting the room and then toasting the whole lot of us with a shot of coconut flavored rum. Ole Cappy found 10 funny pirate toasts and let Bryce chose his toast to us all.
Alas all good things must come to an end so the decks cleared out and all went home safely. We did a partial clean up and headed to our bunks for the night.
Here’s a toast to Pirates and Wenches party III coming to a port near you in October of 2008.
Until next year; Drink up me ‘earties yoh ho!!!
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