And these are the people in your neighborhood...

Saturday night's get-together quickly became a who's who of our neighbors. Love it!

We started out planning the evening as a way for some new friends to meet some old friends in order to grow our social circle. Now that Summer is here and we've been settled into our new place for six months I am starting to go a little stir crazy with not knowing a whole lot of people to do things with. Especially with DBF's travel picking up more now.... I NEED to meet some more people!

I met a great couple through another friend of ours, so we invited them and thought we would have an intimate evening of maybe four couples....hehe, but I should have known it would turn into a party cuz that's just what we do! :)

The original friend actually ended up not being able to make it because she and her date both got food poisoning the night before. Drag!! But the other couple came so we got to visit and get to know them which was the plan anyway! Then our other super-close friends arrived and it turns out that the wives both work for the same company. So the idea behind us all getting to know each other totally worked out.

DBF had invited a few neighbors, but we really thought that only the one guy next door would show up. We've become friends with him and his wife, but she is a flight attendant and was out of town. And we thought maaaybe the guy from down the street would come, but again his wife was supposed to be busy so we weren't sure.

Well, surprise us both by everyone showing up! :) Guy from down the street got his wires crossed and his wife wasn't busy, so they both came (which was great because I've wanted to get to know her!) and shortly after that the guy from next door came. A little later we were surprised to hear the doorbell and it was the couple from the other side of us, plus their house guest. Soooo cool, because they are usually pretty quiet. Good thing they came too, because we learned that we had his name wrong all this time....LOL. And then to top the evening off, the couple from across the street stopped in when they got home. They are in a band and we thought it would be much too late when they got home, but we were still going strong. Again, lucky me, another woman when I really thought it would mostly be the guys from the neighborhood. Somewhere in the midst of all those people, DBF's buddy from work and his wife arrived too.

Glad I made as much food as I did (BTW, the food was a hit!! People were super impressed with the "spread" I put on.)! The blue cheese potato bites were awesome...try them!

Do you know what though? I didn't take one photo. Not one!! Me who is so usually camera happy. My girlfriend had a camera that I know got used, but I have no idea what she took shots of...hopefully we find out soon!

The night went on until about 4am... the last few boys still hammering away on their guitars and trying to mesh drunkenly together. A good time!! (and not a lot of mess believe it or not...I guess it helps that I was too busy to drink a lot and kept tidying as we went.) We are so pleased with how it worked out! I've never really gotten to know many neighbors anywhere else I've lived, but here everyone is sooo nice and friendly and conveniently about our age. And now we are the cool kids on the block, so we'll try to do this again soon!! :)

And the original couple that we started this all for had a good time and invited us to join them for a dinner party sometime soon. Yaaieeee!