Boucan at Brutti's

We had not seen each other for at least 48 hours, so when it transpired that brother Marco Polo from the Houston table was in town, word was quickly put out that we were going to have an "impromtu" boucan to welcome him.
This took place in the form of a "brunch" at Brutti's on Court Street in Portsmouth.
Unfortunately, brother Marco Polo was held up at the time, but he send a delegation of captive Meridee, daughter Christie and soon to be son in law Jason.
Attending from the Cheapeake Bay table were six brothers, five sooks, one engage with his soon to be sook and one "pasajero".
Once the Bloody Mary and the great food had revived everybody, our Captain promoted Marco Polo's captive Meridee to the rank of Honorary Sook !
Orza !

Brothers only meeting

The spirit of the Chesapeake Bay table has struck again! 100 % participation of brothers in town at the time of the meeting. First arrived was our Captain for Life who became recently a road survivor after a bad crash early this month. He is happy to report that for the first time after three years, he now has car payments after his 200,000 miles old truck was totalled by a sleepy and uninsured lady driver who herself almost lost her passenger/husband in the process. Blue Stache is now driving a beautiful black SUV ! And he only suffered a few bruises not mentionning the new dent in his budget.
As this was a brothers only meeting, hush, hush ! Since I do not have a Chief of Staff, here is the disclaimer : any eventual leaks about this meeting won't be originating from this office.
However, I can disclose that there was a first in the proceedings. The use of the blue balls, light blue and dark blue (our captain said purple). The picture here will let you decide. There is a possibility that the procedure will be improved by the use of consumable M&M instead of beads to ensure that there will be only one vote per session.
This also was the occasion to test (or taste) a new mexican restaurant in the neighborhood. Since there was nothing left of the food at the end of the meeting, the conclusion must be that is was not bad. . . .

New Year's Eve at Waterside Marina

Many of the younger participants kept asking me about the Brotherhood and its reputation to party hard and long. What could I say ! There was evidence that our captain and our host were both hard at work to make sure we had a lively party.
Indeed we had. Although I was late arriving, I was told that food kept coming in waves starting around 2 p.m. and was not washed down with water but with fine wines and of course our favorite Rhum Barbancourt.
Not everybody saw the New Year in. Our Captain for life called it a day with less than an hour to spare, and our host Cruz went for a final push in his preparation for tomorrow. This left Upwind, Pilot and Brise-Galets, together with many guests and their relatives to welcome 2006 on behalf of the table.


As always, if you want to see more of the pictures that were taken that evening, go an visit the library where all those pictures, and some more are kept.