PIG ROAST!!!

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The first annual Pig Roast was a HUGE success!!!

It began about a month prior, when Eric and Hunn welded a make-shift grill together, 2 grills really, that would sandwhich a pig inbetween in order for it to cook. One week before the roast, Hunn and his brother came with a truck load of cinder blacks and built an above ground pit, in which the grill would sit on top of as the flames below would cook the pig slowly over a 6-8 hour period. There was MUCH research that went into this yummy project! The day before the party, Hunn and Anton came over, with the pig, convered in ice in the back of his car, and with some help, down into the bowels of the basement did the little piggie go. With a LARGE knife, and a lot of pictures... Hunn slit open the pig. Let me clarify some things.... Hunn picked up this pig at a butcher, so the little piggie was already gutted when she was brought here. He conntinued to filet and proceeded to marinating. With ice and plastice, the pig sat in the basement the rest of the night.

We all went to a great fireworks show, came home about 12ish. Isabelle and I and Grammy went to bed, but Anton had fireworks to shoot, so the boys went off to an open area, away from homes to light them. They came back sometime after 1, went to bed and woke up at 5am when their alarms sounded. I, of course, slept in some more... till about 6am. In that hour, all 3 boys got the pig and layed her out on the grill, tied the two grills together (for turning purposes), lite the pit fire (which had to be stoked every 40 minutes) and got her cooking. The piggie was ready about 2:30 and was DELISOUS!! One of Hunn's friends brought homemade sauses for the pork sandwhiches...oh so good.

There were roughly 40-50 people at our house from 12pm on till about 6pm..... not all at the same time of course. It was a wonderful time to see everyone, yet I was sad that I didn't get to spend as much time with some friends as I wanted to. But since this is now an annual event... I will find a way. There were events for everyone too... those who wanted to see the pig cooking could, and those that did not wnat to didn't have to, since the pit is secluded. We had a few tents up for shade, a BBQ up for those that didnt want pork. Everyone brought some delisious side dish!! ThankYou! We set up a kiddie pool with kiddie slide, water toys, a net was set for volleyball or badmitten. A slip-n-slide was even brought in as was a cool rocket launcher!

It was a great time, and we can't wait to see what is brought to the roast next year!!! I must say though, that we may have to have a bigger piggie next time. We'll see you next year!