CRAP 2013

Okay, it’s time to catch up.  I am in Ohio now, and will be for another week.  I have been here for three weeks now and it sure has been busy.  Renea rode up with me, and I took her to here parent’s house so she could spend a week with them.  I then went to Rita and Bob’s.  The three of us spent most of the week getting ready for CRAP 2013 which was held here in Cincinnati this year.  Our theme was Irish.

I did spend Monday with Brian and his family.  I met their new dog, Precious. She is an American Eskimo just like Andy.  She is nine years old and has some problems, but is doing fine.  As for Andy he didn’t even bark at me nearly as much. In fact, he was pretty friendly.  I guess he figured it was okay since Precious was friendly.  Brian and I worked on my computer.  Turns out I had a virus imbedded in my registry, so we decided to wipe the hard drive clean and start from scratch.  So far, so good.  Had supper with them and then headed back to Rita and Bob’s. 

 

 

Kevin drove up late Thursday and brought Stephanie, Chelsea (Ryan’s fiancé) and Gavin, her son.  He also brought the dogs.  They all stayed at Brian’s.  Friday morning Kevin picked up Renea from her parent’s and they came over and picked up Bob so they could buy the drinks for the party.  They decided they needed some Irish beer since the theme was Irish.  Meanwhile Rita and I worked on the food.  I had ordered bar-b-q from the meat store and had picked that up on Thursday.  I made macaroni salad on Friday.  We then headed to Brian’s to do some swimming.  He grilled hot dogs for supper, we drank a lot, had a fire in the outdoor fireplace and had a really good time.  Then we headed home to get a good night’s sleep so we would be ready for Saturday.

 

 

Rain was predicted for Saturday, but we were really lucky.  There was rain all around us, but we only had a few drops.  We had a bean bag tournament in the morning which Brian and Bob won.  Then we took our pictures.  Everyone wore a green shirt and Rita furnished hats. 

 

Since we had it in Ohio Granny was able to attend.  Jana and David signed her out of the nursing home and brought her.  She is 94 now and doing good.  She really enjoyed herself. 

Brian and Tracy brought plenty of snacks to munch on during the day. 

Our next event was held in the basement.  We played CRAP JEOPARDY which I put together.  It was soooo funny.  We had a blast.  Samantha showed Kevin and Brian how to twerk.  Funniest thing I ever saw.  Tracy and Kevin were doing it outside while playing bean bag.  Then Brian and Kevin carried it over into the basement.  This year we had two teams; gals against guys.  Needless to say, the gals won.

 

We had our CRAP meeting and it was decided to hold it next year in Alabama.  The theme will be Super Heroes/Villains. 

Next was food.  Which was awesome.  Rita had bought a cake and made some brownies.  Andrea and Megan brought cookies.  We had bar-b-q, beans, slaw, macaroni salad without onions, macaroni salad with onions, etc.    After supper we sat around and drank some more and told stories.  Jana and David took mom back to the nursing home.  She is not allowed to stay overnight anywhere because she would lose her Medicaid.    All the “young people” left and went to Brian and Tracy’s house for the night.  Since I was still staying at Rita and Bob’s I went to bed.  The rest of the adults spent the night because they had all been drinking. 

The next morning Rita had breakfast for everyone.  Brian, Tracy, Kevin and Renea left for Brian’s house after breakfast.  Kevin and Renea picked up the kids and dogs and headed for Alabama.  Robby, LeeAnn and their family headed for home.  I helped Rita and Bob straighten up as best as I could.  Then we spent the rest of the day just relaxing.  Needless to say we were tired.