June 4th was Avery Baumann, Morgan Baumann, Naomi Cheng, and Jeff Sith's housewarming party and the first real night out for many of us in ages! Sean and had I run into our friends Jenn Losito and JJ at AMPM a day prior to this. (They were on their way to Utah for a race JJ was running.) Otherwise, I can't even remember the last time we were around friends — maybe when my sister Liz and and her boyfriend Cody visited 8 or so months ago? In any case, it was a somewhat exhilarating feeling seeing so many familiar faces again after so long!
Sean and I arrived around 7pm and saw Carlos and Evan Montoya, Erwin Nicolas, Cesar Lara, Jason Tran, Jason Yoddumnern, Brandon Connors, the hosts, and LOTS of other faces — some familiar, lots new to us — there throughout the night. From a handful of closer friends we hadn't seen in far too long to quite a few arcade acquaintances and even more of their friends who we had the pleasure of getting to know throughout the party, it was most certainly not a quiet night. Oh, and we had animal company two: Naomi's new snake and their 3 doggies! Almost just as exciting as all the new and old human and animal friends there, however, were all the foods and festive beverages everyone contributed potluck style! There was a big jug of AMF, Jell-O shots, more alcohol than the lot of us could drink in a month without dying, boba, lumpia, spaghetti, cream puffs, salmon, brussel sprouts, beef, sausages, a BBQ going on outside, tons more food, tons of snacks... And being the nerds that all of us are, there were plenty of various rhythm and other games, card games, beer pong, an SMX pad set up with StepMania, Jackbox,... It was pretty epic!
Some additional highlights of the night for me: nerding out over Stamina RPG stuff with the Montoya brothers and quite a few other friends, more dance game talk with various people, really getting to relax and catch up with Cesar properly for the first time in almost a decade now (seriously, so therapeutic), Sean and Cesar playing beer pong together :3, getting to play beer pong with some ridiculously fantastic people myself, petting the dogs SO MUCH, those damn cream puffs omg 🤤, Sean's various shenanigans, and so many more things than I can even attempt to list all of here!
Eventually, we wound up with some harder partiers and/or tired people starting to pass out on the ground in the backyard. A bunch of the rest of us went out to keep them company and cuddle in the "fresh" air (on the astroturf where the dogs pee 🤣) for awhile before things slowly started to wind down and we finally headed home around 3am. ❤
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