{"id":1456,"date":"2009-10-24T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/24\/saturday-night-what-a-party\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T09:34:00","slug":"saturday-night-what-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/24\/saturday-night-what-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – what a party !"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ahhhhhhhhh .. just sitting down after about 5 hours of party + cleanup..\u00a0\u00a0 It was a really good party. <\/div>\n

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We had a ton of help setting up, so it was a pretty low stress prep.. Folks strted showing up just before 7 and<\/p>\n

things were getting pretty quiet by midnight. I have no way of counting<\/p>\n

how many people were here.. I used to try and list the folks.. but it’s<\/p>\n

grown beyond that now.. and my memory isn’t as good as it once was.. I<\/p>\n

do knwo that around 9 I walked through and counted more than 250 folks<\/p>\n

between the ohouse and the barn. I don’t know what that means abotu the<\/p>\n

total number of folks who came and went through the evening..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It’s cool sitting here in the quiet .. and nearly clean place after all those folks have gone.. <\/p>\n

This year was pretty calm too.. no mischief we saw, no lost and crying<\/p>\n

kids.. no police.. all in all.. you can’t ask much more for a<\/p>\n

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We decorated our room by putting spooky stuff in our bed (no making out here, please).. Talk about spooky.. that’s my Monday calendar from work.. I’m talking SPOOKY !<\/div>\n

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Just before the party Diane and I took a look around to make sure all the hatcheds were battoned down, etc.. the place looked good !<\/div>\n

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Max came in dressed in armor. a mustache.. and a gun shooting fake pot leaves.. he was ‘The War on Drugs’ …\u00a0\u00a0 Gabe came as a banana.. both cute.. <\/div>\n

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Diane had a great costume.. she came as ‘John C’s other Half’.. she got a freaky bald mad science guy mask and a fake beard and put it on the back of her head.. along with a Colony style apron.. here she is wither her back to the camera .. pretty cool, huh ? I’m just dressed as ‘John C’.. a mad scientist.. like pretty much all of the last 20 something years.. sureprise surprise !<\/div>\n

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Sue and Jim came as their sun Dylan in full slacker boarder togs.. complete with drooping pants. <\/div>\n

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Paula and on were there..\u00a0 Paula was the girl from a Nightmare before Xmas’.. and Ron came as… as John C.. compelte with solar power, dirty water. dirty face,\u00a0 an extra fan for the inverter, a multimeter, a spark shooter and a morse code key.. And he had to dye<\/i> his hair gray\/ He’s so funny <\/div>\n

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Lots of folks I hadn’t seen forever.. like Sam’s friend John…<\/div>\n

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We had soem classy outfits including Classic rockers.. <\/div>\n

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They call him ,,,,,, :TIM: !<\/div>\n

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Smurfs<\/div>\n

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Glowing ear plugs<\/div>\n

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sarah pailn fresh from parasailin’.. she called herself ‘caribou barbi’ ! <\/div>\n

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and creepy smile guy<\/div>\n

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Seeing Jess was a wonderful surprise !<\/div>\n

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Cupcake anyone ? <\/div>\n

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They’re always after me lucky charms.. they’re tragically malicious !<\/div>\n

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I pitty the fool !<\/div>\n

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The singing nuns….<\/div>\n

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spooky nightmare guy.. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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lots of good spooky food.. but I hardly got to it.. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Piles of shoes at every door… <\/div>\n

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Some folks just hanging out.. <\/div>\n

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Others playing games… <\/div>\n

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Still others in the barn dancing to DJ Sumner.. he did a GREAT job.. there were over 80 folks in there while he was playing.. <\/div>\n

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Here’s aaron inverting.. <\/div>\n

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Here’s what a quick walkabout of the party looked like at 10 PM… <\/p>\n

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There were still just about 100 folks here at 11 PM.. but folks started leaving quickly.. by midnight we were down to about 30.. perfect ramp down.<\/p>\n

We collected a good amount of food for food bank during the party…\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p><\/div>\n

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And had plenty of help for the first cleanup.. by 1:30 the place looked pretty good.. Though we need to do a bunch more cleaning.. We’re having a cleaning party from 10 till 2 tomorrow. Please come by if you’re free.
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It was a great evening.. it was wonderful seeing all our friends.. especially so many of Sams friends.. I tell you … her was there with us tonight.. you could feel him there in the spirit of all of his friends.. <\/div>\n

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It was just your kind of night Sam.. just your kind of night..\u00a0\u00a0 We love you man !
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