While we were in Germany our tomato plants produced about 10 lbs of tomatoes.
This was on top of the roughly 20 lbs of tomatoes they had previously produced.
Anyway, Dan promoted to O-4 which is very exciting. In the Navy when you promote you have a Wetting Down. Usually this is a big party where you spend the difference in the paychecks on the party. Since we'd just come from Oktoberfest and were still in the Oktoberfest season, we decided to have OktO4fest.
I really love that so many people came to celebrate Dan's promotion. This was also JD's last night (or close to last) in Monterey, so we tried to give him a good send off as well.
A few surprise attendees: Dave and his boyfriend Yev came down from Berkely, Matt and Emily and kids came down from Freemont, and Dan's parents came out from Iowa. It was really good to see them and have them here.
Ryan, John, and Christian (an actual German, which adds some authenticity to our party 😉) seemed to have a good time.
At some point we had two games of baseball and one game of beer pong going on in the garage. Only one grumpy distant neighbor came to yell at us - the immediate neighbors were at the party.
All in all I think it was a really great night. We have a great group of friends here and I really appreciated them all coming out to celebrate Dan . I wish I had taken more photos, but I was having too much fun and forgot.
This concludes our adventures for tonight.
