In which there’s a party! And swimming! And prizes!

My employer throws two company parties a year. One’s at Xmas, and the other is a pool party in the summer. At Xmas, we sat at table fully dressed, and waitresses brought us food and drinks – which is how it should be. But last night was different: it was a pool party, which means mostly-naked people I work with. Does anybody really need to see – or be seen by – one’s coworkers in swimming attire?

I got off work an hour early (paid!) and Kaje and I went to his house for cocktails (one doesn’t just go to a company party without some social lubricant) and to collect beach towels. Then we drove to Milton-Freewater (talking non-stop, of course) for the party.

The party was catered – badly – which means I ate a lot of raw broccoli and Ranch, some cheese and crackers, and a cookie. (Apparently the meatballs and ribs were good, though.) Then we went swimming for awhile. Having the whole pool to ourselves was pretty cool, but only about half the office actually swam. Most of the people in the pool were guests, people’s kids mostly, but K and C and a few others hit the water slide a half dozen times each.

Eventually there was a little water relay game – we were split into three teams and had to relay water from cup to cup to fill up a 5-gallon bottle. Afterwards, numbered tickets were disbursed and everyone got to choose a gift from a table full of them.

Kaje really wanted the rolly suitcase or the camera, but I hadn’t even really looked at the loot. When my number was called, I grabbed a Bluetooth headset for my phone because I didn’t really want an HD DVD player or a football and didn’t see anything else I could use.

K got his suitcase and was much pleased.

After the party, we stopped at Kelly’s in our swimsuits for another round and dripped all over their furniture. Then we drove back to W2 and crawled into The Taco, where we crashed out smelling of chlorine and vodka.

In other news, I remodeled my dad’s blog this week, and my baby brother is coming to W2 this weekend. Yay!