I have had a bit of a dry spell the last year as I haven’t gotten out much during the pandemic and wasn’t in a relationship. I’m from a pretty rural area so most online data apps don’t really give you many options so I count on things like visiting friends and events to try and have a good time.
This weekend I put together a party at my house and opened it up to a wide guest list. I told them as long as the people they brought helped us fill the cooler, the more the merrier.
I have a pool and a nice back yard. We set up some tents for shade and I had guests bring pool chairs. At the peak of the weekend we had maybe 20 people there at a time, about 70/30 people I knew to people I didn’t.
People flowed in and out over the weekend but my crew of friends stayed there the whole time. One of them stopped me about halfway through Saturday and mentioned that he had a surprise for me.