BBQ Fest 2/3: Friday and Saturday

Sorry, I was just too exhausted to do a post yesterday.

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Sea bass, our entry in the seafood ancillary.

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Brisket

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:mrgreen:

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I tried to kiss Randi a few seconds after this photo was taken. That didn’t go very well.

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Our second-place Best Booth trophy.

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Flip cup on the judging table

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Larry and Linda

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Here are the winners. I don’t yet know how my team finished but I should find out today.

Sad to see Squeal Street BBQ didn’t make the top 3. We joke around with those guys a lot but they are very much our sibling team and we want them to do well. They have taught us a lot over the years.

About 8 last night I walked out of the booth and headed north to meet my friends at Silly Goose. As I walked past the rib teams, I spotted a brunette who I have a bit of a crush on. She was doing stuff on her phone so I didn’t stop and chat, but I looked around and thought to myself, “She has a really awesome group of friends. I wish I knew them.”

As I walked past more rib booths, I thought, “There’s really no more reliable way to gauge how awesome a person is than by looking at who their friends are.”

Then I got out my phone and pulled up this photo, taken by one of my teammates right after judging:

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And I smiled. These are the people I have the privilege to hang out with on a regular basis. Every last one of these people is awesome.

I guess I must be pretty awesome too.

This has been BBQ Fest 2015.