A little background: Over the past few years we have become a part of this group of couples that try to get together once or twice a year and have a long weekend of fun, basically we try to pretend that we are in college again. Every year the hangovers get worse and worse! We became a part of this group from Flint and Theresa, the group began with three couples that married their college sweethearts. Now it is a mixture of additional friends from college for these three couples and a few strays like us :) Sometimes the gathering is only 3 couples strong and sometimes its 12 couples! Basically we pick someones house and we all have a big slumber party for days. Usually over the Fourth of July or New Years. Sometimes we pick a vacation spot such as Key West (a group favorite) or a cabin in Kentucky (Fourth of July, 2010) This year we went to the favorite spot, Heyworth, Illinois. Home of Kate and Terry Trost. Over the entire weekend we had over 12 couples! It was a full house:
Our hosts had t-shirts made for everyone that said "Heyworth 09" on the front and "The Key West of the Midwest" on the back. We played a ton of Flip Cup and Quarters. The boys went golfing, and the girls cooked and talked about babies as we had a new baby in the group and one on the way. More about that later...
And then we played volleyball....mud volleyball.....rainy, cold, swamp volleyball. It was insane, and we played for hours, but the rain just kept coming. So in the end we forfeited even though we were in first place and then we challenged the three showers in the Trost house to see how many hot showers and mud down the drain it could handle.
