Superbowl in Bear Valley Springs
For Superbowl this year we headed out to my pal Jaime’s place for his first of what should be an annual party in his new house. I don’t know for sure but my guess is that he had 100 or more people over. It was great!
Since Green Bay had a terrible year, I didn’t have a huge stake in the victor but I do like Peyton Manning so I pulled for the Colts. It turned out to be a tough position because it seemed that 90 of the other attendees were pulling for Da Bears. I don’t have to tell you the type of grilling I endured after the opening kick-off. But I also don’t have to tell you who had the last laugh (as I ran as fast as I could away from the angry mob).
Like most trips to the Osbrink place, I got to cruise the property with Ben in the golf cart. It must be a “male” thang but he just can’t get enough of driving that thing around. The girls tend to gravitate towards the horses — It all seems very natural. But speaking of horses…
One of the girls got thrown from her horse and didn’t just fall the five feet from horse back to earth, she fell into a hole that was a few feet deep. When I got “on scene” she looked like she was lying in a grave. I think she broke her wrist but I’m not sure how it turned out at the hospital. She sure was tough though… I’d have been crying like… a little girl? Hmmm. Need a new phrase for that stuff.
I came so close to winning the third quarter pool but I needed the Colts to nail that field goal in the closing seconds. They pushed it left, IIRC. One nice bonus was, I had given each of three teenagers a $5 square in the pool since they had been so helpful in getting things setup. One of them snagged the first *and* second quarter booty. To top it off, she offered to give it to me since I had paid for her square. That was uber cool but of course, I had too much fun watching her make off with the cash herself. It was probably like me winning $10K, given her age, etc. Excellent.
I’m hoping for an invite to next year’s festivities, not just so I can hang with the Osbrink family but also Greg’s family, Jody, Walt, Mel and all of the other BVS residents who have been so kind to my family whenever we invade their space. Pretty please folks?
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