Monday, July 11, 2011

Day 76: Grace's 30th Birthday

Grace's celebration of choice for this milestone birthday was a kegger in the woods. Her friend Jill got us three campsites at Zephyr Cove which you would think would be enough space for a noisy party except that this particular campground was tightly packed and sold out. So there were several families camping within 30 feet or so of Grace's party.


Supposedly kegs are against campground policy but this employee didn't seem to mind and even drove it up to our campsite for us (there was not a lot of parking nearby).


Tapping the keg. Mirror Pond Ale I believe.


It seemed like every couple minutes someone would say "Oh I forgot to bring this!" so I volunteered to drive into town and pick those things up. I also wasn't quite ready to start drinking and it would give me a good excuse to hit up the Mont Bleu Casino. I did not do very well there but I did manage to kill a couple hours. When I got back they had been to the beach and back so I missed my second opportunity to see Zephyr Cove. One of these days...

Greg said he had found the umbrella with lights in a dumpster a while back. It was a lovely find, really added some atmosphere.


Grace blowing out the candles. Things started to get pretty rowdy at that point and the campground had quiet hours that started at 10pm. There was essentially one girl at the party that Grace didn't know very well who wouldn't quiet down and I could see things might start getting ugly so I took off around 11pm. I was glad it had always been my plan to not stay overnight anyway. On the way back I stopped at Harvey's and Harrah's because I had all of those winnings burning a hole in my pocket. I thought I'd only be there for a couple hours but ended up staying until a little after 7am. I was doing alright for a while but in that last hour or two I made some very poor decisions because I was feeling loopy. It was definitely interesting to observe the different crowds that filter through the casino throughout the night. I almost considered driving back to the campground because I was pretty sure Grace would be awake to say hi but thought it better that I get to sleep myself.

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