The bach­e­lor party went bet­ter than I could have ever planned. Aaron wanted a week­end where the grooms­men could bond with each other so ini­tial plans were to head to Montreal, but I sug­gested to host it at my house, where I felt like I had the most control.

Friday night was drink­ing with every­one at the Honest Lawyer. We got the biggest table there, and for a cou­ple hours it felt like we owned the bar with our large and rowdy group. There was much tom­fool­ery to which our lips are sealed, as is the cus­tom for any bach­e­lor party, the footage of which will for­ever be locked in the vault. There’s noth­ing wrong with a drink or three though.

I even moon­walked (or some rea­son­able fac­sim­ile thereof) around the perime­ter of the bar, weav­ing between groups of peo­ple, put up by Pat for 10 points. He said the fun­ni­est thing was see­ing everyone’s reac­tion. I was too busy mak­ing sure I didn’t bump into any­one to notice that peo­ple stopped what they were doing and turned their heads as I passed them. When I closed the cir­cle the table cheered and I felt all eyes in the place on me. Something I nor­mally avoid at all costs, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel good.

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It was also a meet­ing of the four bosses, the last time of which was almost a year ago dur­ing the birth­day rounds. I was com­forted know­ing that Aaron was at my front, Trolley to his right, and Pat to mine at the table. The next meet­ing will be at the wed­ding itself this week­end. Exciting!

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By Saturday we reduced to the core group for the rest of the tour­na­ment, which was grooms­men and MC. You know you’re old when con­ver­sa­tion over break­fast is mainly about bacon, arts and crafts, and cook­ing shows. The pound of bacon chal­lenge was worth 5 points, as evi­denced by the plate ded­i­cated to pork, which Aaron and Rob eas­ily achieved.

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Even though he didn’t show up until Saturday after­noon, I got to meet Jay, who was the only one out of Aaron’s crew that I hadn’t met. The rest of the week­end was spent game play­ing, Nerf war­ring, ulti­mate fight­ing in the back­yard, and hang­ing out.

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In the end, there just wasn’t enough time to do every­thing planned. I was also spread­ing myself thin between record­ing video, tak­ing pho­tos, and act­ing as organizer/host. Sometimes I wish I could be part of the action, but it’s more worth it to me to make sure the right angles, focus, com­po­si­tions are taken. Still an absolute blast.