Pirate Extravaganza and Macrame Event

So the last posting of "Creek Sawin" was to lead up to Hanses birthday party the Pirate Extravaganza and Macrame Event. Hans wrote an invitation Email that said this.

All,
You are cordially invited to attend the 7th annual "Pirate Extravaganza and Macrame Event," where we will boldly sail the perilous waters of the Crosswicks Creek followed by a macrame party where we can all share our favorite decorative knot creations. The party will begin on Friday evening, July 30 and conclude on Sunday afternoon, August 1. Everyone is welcome to join us for as little or as much of the event as they wish. For New Yorkers, trips down to Allentown, via NJ Transit trains will be scheduled for Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. The weekend schedule is as follows:

Friday night
Late registration and check in
New and innovative macrame techniques lecture
Irrigation pond skinny-dip
Casual drinks

Saturday
Pirate Canoe Event
Macrame skill share
New knotting technology lecture series
knotted textile bazaar
Fruit preserves yardsale

Saturday night
Grill sesh
Dirttrack racing
Attempt to break guiness record of world's largest macrame pot holder
Bonfire / Partay!!!

Sunday
Breakfast
Nature tour
Closing remarks

I'll coordinate trips to NJ when the date gets closer. Please let me know if you think that you'll be able to make it.

Hugs,
Hans

The party was the weekend of Friday July 30th to Sunday August 1st. A bunch of his friends came down from New York to our parents house in New Jersey Friday evening. We had dinner then we drank around a bonfire until around 5am Friday night. We woke up the next morning around 10am. Ugh... Anyway, after breakfast we all dressed up and hit the creek. There ended up being about 17 of us in eight canoes.









































Dude, so much fun! Its great to be a kid again.

Creek Sawin'

So my brother Hans' birthday is July 26th. For his birthday party He's planning on having a pirate party extravaganza fully loaded with canoe ride down Crosswicks Creek. Well The creek isn't very wide and lots of trees have fallen over it and they've never been removed. In order to get the canoes down the creek without having to carry them over logs every 50 yards we had to go down the creek a few days before the party and chainsaw trees out of the way. On Thursday July 29th you take two canoes, four boys, a chainsaw and 12 beers and this is what you get.

Butterflies kept landing on Matt's back.

















We're spending the day acting like men but as soon as we see a spider we freak out like a bunch of school girls. In our defense it was a big ass spider.




MAKE A FULCRUM!!!!


This is my brother Hans.


We did it!




Someone was doing the same thing we were but evidently their chainsaw couldn't handle this tree.

There's Matt.


Sooooooo much fun. Sean, I wish you were here, this is the kind of thing you'd love to do.