Tuesday Night Bonfire

Tuesday night Betsy's friend Ben Siskar was home from his deployment in Korea for a few days to attend his cousin's wedding, and made time to stop over for the night.  Ben is one of Betsy's oldest and best friends and every time we get the chance to see him, we know it will be a fun evening.  

Also coming over was our friend Ben Cortese, who is currently studying for his PhD in mathematics at Syracuse University, Phil Kasperowitz, and Pam Eichas. Phil, Siskar, and Cortese arrived around 8 and we began setting up the fire, gathering wood, and getting the chairs set up.  Once it was all set up we discovered that our house had no Solo Cups, or pong balls!  What house with a 21 year old and a 23 year old does not have those?  I am willing to bet that we are in the minority.

So we undertook a trip to Tops Friendly Markets to get some much needed drinking equipment. Getting home we set up the pong table and began to play.  Now, I'm no pro at pong, but having just graduated last year, I am pretty decent at pong, as is everyone else at the fire.  However there was a slight cross breeze that we had to contend with, making pong much more difficult to say the least.  Not to mention the darkness had us holding our cellphones up to the cups so we could see where to shoot.  We played a bunch, and each game we all looked like amateurs trying to deal with the wind and darkness.

After a while of playing pong, we went to go sit by the fire, playing some guitar, listening to some tunes and having a great time.  The fire was warm, and burned well into the night.  After a while it started to rain and thunder so we headed onto the porch to finish the remaining beers and watch the lightning.  We were all up talking and laughing when we looked at the time and saw it was 3 a.m.  It was definitely past our bedtimes so we all went into bed for the night.

Waking up was a bitch. I had not had a hangover like that probably since college, and I certainly do not miss those.  Thankfully, I know just the hangover cure; head down into town for some North Chili Family Restaurant.   It is a cute little diner in "downtown" North Chili that serves a delish breakfast.  I got two over easy eggs, two pancakes, a huge piece of ham, and some hash browns.  It was as good as it could get.  After breakfast I said good bye to Ben and Ben, and headed to Jitters Cafe to meet Betsy for lunch and a milkshake.  I was stuffed from breakfast and elected to just get a strawberry and cream milkshake, Betsy got a buffalo chicken wrap which looked phenomenal and a mint chocolate milkshake.  Simply delish! It was a great way to welcome summer, and there are few things better than good friend, cheap beer, and a camp fire.