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August 23, 2013

Jared's Bachelor Party Weekend

Bunch of bros headed to a house in the Poconos to celebrate the end of single J-rod.

Friday, August 23rd

On Friday afternoon, Penta picked up me and the groom-to-be, and we followed the sun west!
jared, penta
Taco stop!
bachelor party ˆ food ˆ mexican ˆ taco ˆ jared ˆ penta
We arrived to the house we'd rented around 6.
bachelor party ˆ house party
Time to unpack...
van
jared
...all the party supplies.
bachelor party ˆ booze ˆ stereo ˆ jared
jared
Right after I turned around from taking this picture...
bachelor party ˆ booze ˆ jared
...I heard some rustling in the woods behind me and turned around to see this family of deer casually stroll up.
deer
They walked almost within arm's reach of me!
deer
Before leaving, one of the fawns started nursing!
cute ˆ deer
Adeerable.
deer
After the deer wandered off, we set off to explore the house we'd rented. Solid basement set-up! Complete with pool table, bar...
basement ˆ pool
jared
...foosball table...
basement ˆ foosball ˆ jared
jared
...and the drinking-gear remnants of bachelor-party-renters before us.
bachelor party ˆ bar ˆ basement ˆ best ˆ jared
Probably not going to be a whole lot of captions in this entry.
Just enjoy the photos of chill bros caught habitating in their natural party-cabin habitat.
house party ˆ party
Pounding beers and...
...enjoying staring at the fire.
BBQ cooler.
If you're a vegetarian it's good to stand by the grill and camouflage your plant-stink in meat-smoke so as not to offend anyone.
bbq ˆ grill
Poking the fire with sticks is the original HBO.

Saturday, August 24th

Man-cooking makes me feel right at home. No time to clean this up...
cooking ˆ stove
...got to get outside and sit in the sun!
This is a great 10am shot.
By the afternoon, we were ready to leave the house behind and explore the surroundings.
house ˆ house party
Oh, you know, just a pack of dudes randomly wandering your neighborhood with sports equipment.
frisbee ˆ sign ˆ walking
There was no traffic on the road...
...so we pretty much played frisbee...
frisbee
penta
...the entire walk over to the park.
frisbee ˆ penta
Spotted!
walking
The promised land.
lake ˆ park
We unpacked our cooler...
...and divvied up our group into two wiffleball teams!
action shot ˆ wiffleball
Can you even handle the ferocity of these...
action shot ˆ wiffleball
jared
...wiffleball action-shots?
action shot ˆ wiffleball ˆ jared
Back at the house we got the grill going again...
bbq ˆ grill ˆ smoke
...I decided to take a break from veggie burgers and try an MRE.
MRE
Mmmmm! Cheese Tortellini-ish!
MRE
And this is pretty much what the rest of Saturday consisted of.
jared
Guest of honor!
house party ˆ party ˆ jared
Later that evening by the fire...
...I managed to capture Jared's dad arriving with a STACK of six pizzas!
Keeping that...
...fire going.
jared
Burger in the right. Pizza in the left. 100!
best ˆ burger ˆ house party ˆ party ˆ pizza ˆ jared
jared
We managed to get the entire gang together for a group photo before...
best ˆ fire ˆ group ˆ house party ˆ party ˆ jared
...people started wandering off to drunkenly climb trees!
climb ˆ tree
jared
After drunkenly crashing around in the woods, I came inside at 3am to find these guys crashed out on adjacent couches.
asleep ˆ best ˆ couch ˆ house party ˆ party ˆ passed out ˆ jared
Passed out portraits...
asleep ˆ couch ˆ passed out
jared
...of sleeping gentlemans.
asleep ˆ couch ˆ passed out ˆ jared

Sunday, August 25th

On Sunday morning, everyone pitched in to clean up and get ready to leave.
Going...
climb ˆ ladder ˆ tree
...going...
climb ˆ ladder ˆ tree
....GONE! If you look carefully, you can see him way the fuck up there! I almost had a heart attack watching him climb 40'+ up this tree.
climb ˆ tree
On the drive home through Pennsylvania...
clouds ˆ driving
...we stopped to admire the crazy, checkerboard clouds in the sky.
clouds ˆ driving
When you see Buttzville, you know NYC's not that much further!
driving ˆ sign
Careful examination even revealed...
clouds ˆ wtf
...SpaceBrothers watching us from their cloud-camoflagued UFOs floating above the treeline. Happy Bachelor Weekend, J-ROD!
clouds ˆ ufo ˆ wtf