Yay! I am the first to post after actually being there.
Met many incredible people. Shark cruising the beach for an hour. Grayt fire!
Shelly was a no-show. Grrr...so was Smiling Joe, both of whom I was looking forward to meeting.
I wish my brain could remember all who I met. I'll try:
Miss Kitty, Sunspotbaby, Riverotter, Aleonard, Hop, Uncle Timmy, Bobby J, DD, Franny, IBD, Kitlit, Romeosmydog. I am sure I missed a few and I apologize. My brain just doesn't save those particular cells.
Saw BB, but she must have been busy early and then I never saw her again. Wanted to thank her for putting this all together.
Weather was very cooperative. Not as windy, surf was calm and the fish and crabs were everywhere. We located right near the waterline this year and it worked out wonderful.
May the next one be even better than this one. Party on!!!
It was great to finally meet you Ash. Sorry Mr. IBD did not make it. He HAD to stay home and watch his team get chomped by the Gators.
Grayt time. I sooooooo enjoyed meeting everyone.
Glad to FINALLY meet you in person. I now don't have to picture you with a viking hat on...
us folks sitting at home want pictures!
I have none, sorry gull
Great meeting and seeing all of you! SoWal is a beautiful place to be ...
Thanks to all of you for making it even better! Love ya'll....
SSB good to see you again, hope you had funn w/o child to take care of.
Thanks to organicmama for easing my official entry into sowal society, and for being connected enough to wrangle us a parking space. What a nice way to spend a beautiful fall evening at the beach. I'm just sorry we arrived too late to catch the sharks.
I enjoyed meeting everyone!
Nice to meet you MissCritter.
Sorry we didn't make it last night . The LittleOtters were tired and you know how it is. Hope to see y'all at the next one

whatever, it was nice talking to ya'll.
Aw, I'm so sorry I missed it! I couldn't get out of work for this one!
I missed y'all big time last night. Glad to hear everyone had a funn time!
I wish you had come....but work is work, I understand.
It's Extreme Turdle....with a "D" Afunn....get it right...
I thought it was Turtle also...

It was nice to visit with the ET...
I missed DKA also. He was not even there in his blow up doll self.
It was fun. Sorry I could not have stayed longer. Had to go to a NRA banquet that I had forgotten about.
That was the first time I had seen a shark so close to shore on the Gulf side. Of course it has been 20 years since I spent days at the beach, but is that becoming pretty normal?
Did you win your gun?? Good thing we got on the topic so you hopefully made it in time for the drawing..
So who has got the pics?
Glad to know everyone had a Grayt time!!!
Missed you gull. I kept hoping you would just walk up....
And it was great seeing all and meeting more of y'all yesterday evening...sorry I had to stumble off (because of my foot, not any other reason...no other reason at all ) early!
Kudos to whoever brought the pudding shots, and the wings...and special thanks to wrobert, for doing the old boy scout trick to open Fuzz's beer, IBD, for just being you (Fuzz wants a copy of that thing you had), Crazy K for helping me walk (not sure who was helping who), for SGG for driving us up to my uncle's house, where we had parked - which was no easy feat with the CHELCO trucks in the way (no, those noises were not fireworks) - and many others who I can't remember right now, but it will come to me later.
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you guys...
It was good to see you too. Tell fuzz I will try my best to get him a copy of the XXX Palin pic.
It was nice talking with Andy and his wife (forgot her name, sorry

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I wish my favorite fruit was there....
ok, did NO ONE have a camera on them???????
I guess not!
This may have been THE BEST soiree ever!!! Best weather, best water, best bonfire,
best pudding shots, best crowd of SoWallers (although all you absentees were heartily missed)...
Hopefully DD & Sunkist will post some of their pics when they get home. KrazyK was also taking pics with DD's camera... can't imagine how THOSE will turn out... 'cuz KK was in Full KK Mode (not that she was alone on that score)!!!!
FFFFFUUUUUNNNNN night!!!!
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It was a greaaaaaaaaaaaat time....I had a ball...
every soiree has been awesome.
ditto that gullfriend.
Even though it was a more understated soiree, I loved it. I met a lot of lovely people that I had wanted to me. Hugs to all of you that I did meet! My ability to record everyone I met on here is not so hot, so I' m not even gonna try. And there were a number of people there that I didn't get a chance to meet that I wanted to. Hugs to you too!
It was so good to see you. THe kids are getting soooooo big. But that is what they do.
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Oh, I am officially announcing that SPAM samiches is what I am bringing to EVERY soiree from here on out.
