Pirate's Brunch Recap

Our first guest arrived right at our scheduled start time of 2pm. A surprise, as most of our friends don't arrive for at least a half hour after the party is supposed to start.  Turns out she had driven to our place straight from Dallas (in her pirate outfit no less!).  That gave her some time to freshen up before everyone else showed up, right on time at 2:30! Costumes ran the gamut from a sexy pirate outfit to a simple pirate bandanna; we even had our dear friends show up with their two month old daughter - all three decked out in full pirate attire!

We ended up with about 10 guests, just right for everyone to pack into our living room for games. Our earliest guest came bearing gifts of "Pin the Eye Patch on the Pirate" and some goofy riddles for everyone to solve. Plus prizes for the winners!  Everyone had a good groan over the terrible riddles. For example: "What do you get when you cross a pirate swordsman with a zucchini?" "A squashbuckler". Groan. Everyone lined up for the pinning of eye patches. Even adults who would normally never put up with being blindfolded and spun around to try and tape a eye patch to pirate poster were willing to play for the prize of a handle of Bacardi rum!

The food and drinks worked out great!  We had one guest bring honey and another brought raspberry jam, and every single croissant was gone by the end.  A couple of dark chocolate bars showed up that we broke up and nibbled upon.  The mango mimosa's were a big hit, but we wish we had gone ahead and bought some 7-Up to mix with the mango nectar and rum.  It was good the way it was, but a little bit heavy. Next time for sure.

Last.fm came through for the music; we played the "Pirate" tagged radio station and were treated to a wide variety of pirate-y music from pirate metal and rap to classic sea shanties.  Everyone had a chance to hang out and talk, play games and eat lots of yummy food.  It was a lovely afternoon and the last guests were ushered out about 7pm.  Clean up was breeze - loaded up the dishwasher, put away the props, took down the poster and rehung the art and we were done.