Category Archives: Holiday

5th Annual Santa Pub Crawl


This past Saturday the big man hit the streets for the 5th Annual Santa Pub Crawl. We updated the route this year by avoiding Southport and instead made a trip around Wrigley Field. Everything was going great until our crawl crossed paths with the 7th Annual Sweatpants Crawl at Bernie’s. At that point we were surrounded by lame people in sweatpants. A girl proposed to purchase my Santa suit for $100 (I found this highly insulting). We moved on to Murphy’s Bleachers where unfortunately the Sweatpants people where already there. At Murphy’s an evil wench tried to rip off my beard and some kid tried to steal my hat.

Regardless of these outbursts we had a good time and the more limited crawl kept me functional throughout. We took time for photographs outside of Wrigley, and Sports Corner and Goose Island were great starting points for the crawl.


Side Notes:


* I might have hit the end of the line when it comes to Santa Pub Crawls.
** Previous Santa Pub Crawls: 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

Thanksgiving 2011.

Yesterday we cooked our first meal in the new place which happened to be Thanksgiving. Like in years past (2009) we fried the turkey but this year we used my new Masterbuilt Indoor Electric Fryer.  The indoor fryer is by far an easier way to fry a turkey.  Same cooking time, less oil, equal amount of danger and I can’t stress this enough: dishwasher clean up.

The bird turned out great along with all the other food.  We also finally got around to trying a couple pies from Hoosier Mama Pie:  Apple and Hoosier Sugar Cream.

Fourth of July BBQ.

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On Saturday Julie and I hosted our 4th Annual July Fourth BBQ as in previous I spent the better part of the day smoking ribs.  The turnout this year topped out at about 28 people which made it the largest group we’ve had.  We did eight slabs of ribs and everyone brought a ton of sides so we were good on food and my house is still full of beer.

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Side Notes:

* Previous Fourth of July BBQ’s:  2008, 2009, and 2010.