Olympic Party

It started out as having a few people over for opening ceremonies and as things tend to go in my life, ended up being a three day Open-house pot luck, Olympic viewing, pizza cooking, cocktailing, swim party etc. etc. From start to finish we never knew who was coming when, for how long and how much food and drinks we needed. It was crazy and amazing.


To "keep it simple" Cindy made me promise that I would not do any extravagant floral arrangements. So at 4:30 in the morning on Friday, day of the opening ceremonies I was crafting this little, "non-floral" decor thing.




Then I was off to Chinatown to find these kites and several "essential" ingredients.




Kip managing the bar. He made several "Olympic-themed" drinks, like the Red Dragon and the Beijing Bellini and no Kip is not a professional bartender, just a good friend and guest stepping up to the plate.

Beijing Bellini




More good friends, Vicki and Lita.




Kip, Cindy, Charles, with Coltrane, the Buddah baby




More guests, you know who you are,(I hope)




We also had Lauri, a friend staying with us from NYC for the entire weekend. What a trooper to endure my Olympic party madness. That goes double for wife Cindy. Here they are relaxing on day one.



An enlivened discussion on the origins and evolution of break dancing.




Cindy wishing guests goodnight as they leave.
By the way, weren't those Opening Ceremonies incredible.

Day 2

Day 2 was me checking out my new waterproof digital camera. So I only have pics around the pool or rather in the pool.

But the day was incredible, we watched some of the events, fired up the pizza oven and made a bunch of pizzas, did some grilling and continued the marathon event. Saturday went from around noon to around 1 or 2 in the morning.





Skye spinning some tunes underwater.




Isabel with a smile.


Day 3

More underwater photography.




Paloma and Skye




Paloma, Skye and Amandla.
Photo by Paloma




Skye and Kaya
Photo by Paloma




Kaya




Amandla




Solaris




Dave Bell in perfect form.

Sunday started early with Shane dropping in just after 10 am. We brunched and swam, mingled and caught up with friends old and new until close to mid-night, which is one of the reasons I am just posting this, days later. I have needed a longer recovery than typical.



Peter soaking up the rays.





Goodbye Charles, Coltrane, Karen. Hope you had a good time.
It was an exhausting, wonderful sharing with lots of friends. Thanks to all.