Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Remembering Green--Destination Green Party 2009

Friends on the pier

After desperate pleas from my cousin to update our blog so she didn’t have to keep looking at chicken nuggets and in order to document this event while it is still technically March, I am postponing grading and sleeping in order to blog!
This year we celebrated our fifth annual Green Party, and this time we did it North Carolina style—on the beach! And in honor of all things green, we stayed on Emerald Isle and in a rather green beach house named Big Bertha (a big thanks to Cindy for great beach connection). We were thrilled that everyone actually bought their tickets and made it out here. We gathered from Washington, Texas, Utah, and Arkansas. It was a perfect weekend getaway full of laughter, food, really wonderful people, and of course, a lot of green. Here are a few of the highlights:
• Family Feud
• Locopops
• Emerald Isle’s St. Patrick’s Festival
• C’s sound effect for “wimpy”
• Very late night hot-tubbing
• Walking the beach
• $100, 000 pyramid
• Not-so-good seafood at Jordan’s
• Chowdaheads imitations
• Sleeping 8 people in a one bedroom apartment
• Our first 2nd generation attendee

The girls. It's been nearly 10 years now!
Decked out in green--ready to play and dance!

The hosts.
The official green committee. Oh, and best friends.

We love the beach!
A few rays of sun--we didn't see many!
A quick picture in the beer garden tent at the St. Patrick's festival.
Clark has been so good to not only indulge my green addiction, but he was an integral part of planning this years gathering. Couldn't have done it without him.

9 comments:

Hilary said...

OH my word I love it so much. And I miss it...by it I mean you. One of the best weekends ever. Period. Thanks again.

Love,
Hil (aka puppet green committee member and best friend.)

Sarah, RN said...

thank you.

love the pics...love you.
sounds like a fun party!!! you're so good to do things like that.

happy grading!
sarah

Shaunee said...

Fun party! What an awesome tradition!

Cindy said...

Hooray for blogging instead of grading and sleeping. And HOORAY (of course) for the beach! ;)

Anonymous said...

Sounds like so much fun! We want to come visit so bad!!

Tara said...

It really was a fabulous weekend! Lily wants to go back to the beach (especially since we have snow in Utah!).

Cassie said...

Eeeeeeeeh. I love it so much.

Jesika Harmon said...

Oh that looked so fun!! What a great time :)

Bonnie said...

Hey you! I miss you guys so much already. Thanks for planning such an amazing outing. Can't wait to do it again! We loved the beach house, the games, the excursions, the friends. Perfect! You guys rock!