Afterglow 2006

The fireworks were nothing special, but I didn't really care because I was more concerned with the excitement brewing in my mug. I've often called Sailor Jerry "Liquid Confidence", but now it was a little more like "Liquid Fireworks."

A firework with color. Have you ever seen anything more exciting? I hope that you can answer yes to that question. This didn't interest me at all, for I've seen Tim and James chase each other around in the dark shooting roman candles at each other.

Jenny deliberately turned away from my camera when the picture was taken. She had no intention of being in the picture. Luckily, Brian and Kevin happily up offered their faces and services.

Tim and Kevin turn into "deer in headlights" when I snuck up on them and flashed the camera. The only thing that could make this picture funnier would be an actual deer behind Tim and Kevin with its eyes wide open staring into the camera. That would be awesome.

My trademarked goofy picture look begins with this picture with Brian and continues onto the next page. At this point I'm past wasted and don't really remember much of the evening.

My cousins (from left to right) Susie, Tommy and Brian allow me to intrude into their personal space. Even though I was being intrusive, and a little bit of a drunken idiot, they played along with my ruse and successfully put up with me. You gotta love family.

Since I have no recollection of most of the night (what I do remember will be described on the following page) I have to rely on these pictures to tell the story. These pictures tell me that something frightening, like a Leprechaun from the hood or an enraged lama jumped out at us right before I snapped the picture. It looks like I was the only one who saw it though, because Jenny and Kevin are anything but frightened. If they saw what I saw, they'd be off and running towards the safety that can only be found in their mother's arms.

Sparklers are kind of fun, but really they're only one step above snakes. It's exciting for a minute (maybe 2 minutes if you are drunk like me) but after they start sparkling, they don't do anything else. There's no whistle, no bang, no nothing. They really suck.