Afterglow 2009 - Day 2 Sunday

Somewhere along the way, Mom got tired of making dinner every night for us at Afterglow. So last year Jenny and I teamed up to bring Fajita Night to cabin #2. It was a great success, but that might have just been the margaritas and Mexican mariachi music talking. But I personally thought that it was delicious. This year we decided on build your own pizzas, cause Timmy has given up on meat and Jenny is picky about food. This would allow everyone to make their dream pizza, or at least their dream pizza with the available toppings. We got this Pillsbury crust, and it seemed like everyone was having fun making their pizzas. But how would they taste? That was the most important part about this meal...

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When Jenny and I set this up, we never promised to include entertainment with the meal, but when Timmy, a guitar and food are all present, there's a pretty good chance of getting dinner and a show. This seems to happen pretty often up here at Afterglow.

Jenny and Timmy's veggie pizza was the first one to be ready, and they started chomping down on it. I love me some meat pizza, but with all the peppers and onions and pineapple and stuff they put on there looked mighty good. Which proves that you really can't go wrong with pizza. Even bad pizza is still better than a lot of the other crap out there. From these pictures, I'd say that it was indeed pretty tasty.

Some foods just make your eyes bug out of your head. That's how you know it is good. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Jenny and my pizza was heavenly, but c'mon - build your own pizza is pretty freakin' cool. I commend us for coming up with that idea, and thank Jenny for her hard work in preparation and implementation.

The big kids had to wait a little bit longer for their pizza because it was bigger and took longer to cook. They were ok with it though, because I brought out appetizers (garlic bread and breadsticks) and the wine was flowing like beer. Plus it gave them some time to talk about grown up people things. I honestly don't know what the conversation was about because I was in the kitchen pretending to be a single Mom by cooking AND cleaning, but even if I was out there I wouldn't have been allowed into the discussion. That's cause I always sit at the kids table.

Kevin took several pictures of us sitting outside after dinner, and this was the only one that was halfway decent. You'd think that it would be easy to sit and smile nice for a picture, but nothing comes easy when you're a Reck. You guys just wouldn't understand.

We both look weird in this picture. Then again, Tim and I look weird in every picture. Tim looks like Peter Parker (Spiderman for all you non-comic geeks) and I look like the Michelin Man. But we do look good. Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

We continued to sit at the picnic table after dinner because we enjoy each other's company. That or we were just too full to move. Either way, our butts might have just been glued to those seats. But hey, at least we were outside and we were at Afterglow.

Kevin wandered over from across the street, and he once again did his best impression of the Sasquatch monster. That damn Sasquatch is always lurking around our cabin looking for free eats or tree-fitty. Damn it monster! You leave my family alone! I bet that he won't go away if I gave him a dollar, cause he's gonna assume I got more.