Last night was my Housewarming Party #2: ILM Edition!! It was awesome!! It was really fun and about 20 people showed up which was great. I learned some pretty useful stuff at the last housewarming party like the need for ice, a plastic bucket for drinks, soft drinks and bread. The party was a lot better organized than my first party, people brought lots of wine and Cary brought me a plant for my apartment!! Awesome. We had lots of different kinds of cheese here and some more tasty food. It was a great time and at the end of the night, almost everyone was gone and then Frank stayed here for a couple more hours so we could chill and watch Indiana Jones. Good times!!
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The late night grocery shopping
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Trying to move all my stuff into the closet
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Nice clean main apartment room
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Beer and wine
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Cheese!! Gruyere, Cheese Ball, Brie, Smoked Gouda, Muenster
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Limes and drinks
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Clementines, grapes, crackers, carrots, cookies, chips, sourdough bread, baguettes, and cheese
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Mmm... cheese
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Gattobet!!!!!
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Matt and Ian
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Matt workin' the Jutan-style pose
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Rachel, Yisheng and Jianmin
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Haha great picture
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Stephane, Katherine, Jess and Josh
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Matt and Ian
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Workin' it
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Some heavy political conversation?! :)
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The "main room" crew
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Me and the famed Mr. Matthew Atabet Parrott
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The smart people chillin' around the food table
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Vivek, and I think that's John back there
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Jacob making "Bananas Foster", this fancy butter, sugar, banana, rum mix that you light on fire?!!!
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Matt, Jianmin and Cary banana fostering
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Cary (and the house plant in the background!)
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Jacob and Kat enjoying the fruits of Jacob's cooking effort
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Sweet unhealthy tastiness