This week we had two more Summer Associate briefings: Ellie and Carter. Ellie had to fly to Pittsburgh to give her briefing, but we listened in from Washington. The next day was Carter’s presentation on cost factors of Navy ships, and I was surprised to find it more interesting than I expected. To celebrate both of their accomplishments, we all walked across the street to Chevy’s for happy hour after work on Friday. Although the service is usually on the slow side, something about $3 Margaritas and free chips and salsa keeps us coming back. (I think it has something to do with all of us being poor students in our normal lives!)
Once I got home from Chevy’s, Amy (my housemate) mentioned that the neighbors were having an Olympics Opening Ceremony party. So, I wandered over to the neighbor’s driveway to check it out. Someone had borrowed a projector and they set it up so that we were watching the Ceremony play on the garage door. The ceremony itself was so beautiful – it was even more incredible in giant projection!
The next day was another neighbor event, this time hosted by Andy and Katie Rogers (the friends of my roommate who helped me find a place to live). This was the Rogers’ 2nd annual Slip N Slide BBQ, and Andy decided this year he would improve upon the technical deficiencies of the traditional Slip N Slide and create his own. Let me tell you, this man takes his Slip N Slide duties seriously. The Slide was at least 50 feet long and 8 feet across, with two separate sprinklers spraying it, and soap to increase the slipperiness. It was ridiculous!
(if you look closely, you can see Andy on the Slide)
As the host, it was Andy’s responsibility to take the first run. He was fiddling with his drawstring, and some jokester in the crowd shouted, “Take it off!” Obligingly, Andy dropped his pants and took off down the Slide. Fortunately (I guess), Andy had prepared for such an occasion by wearing a silver man-thong. It was hilarious and horrifying at the same time. All I could think was, “Chris totally would have done that.”
After Andy’s trial run, a few of the guys headed down from the balcony to take their turns. At first some of the other women were too timid to try, but eventually, we convinced them to try it. Katie (the hostess) changed into a simple black one-piece bathing suit with a pair of shorts – a good choice for sliding (no accidental bikini loss). The guys, however, thought it was hilarious in comparison to her previous two-piece and kept asking why she was dressed in a suit from the 1940’s.
We had a few good runs on the Slide… Some of the girls tried sliding from opposite ends so that they would meet in the middle of the Slide, but they often didn’t quite make it all the way to the center. We also tried a Slip N Slide version of croquet, where Amy tried to slide under the legs of the other three women. I thought this would surely end in tragedy for at least one of the “wickets” – of which I was the first (and most likely to meet a violent end). It actually went fairly well, and only took us 2 tries to get Amy successfully through all 3 “wickets” – go us!
There were also a few tandem slides – the best of which was Amy and neighbor Bill’s celebratory slide. (see the video below)
After some excellent slides (if I do say so myself), I had to change and head out to meet Janice to go to Ellie’s goodbye party – more on that in the next entry.
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