Misc. from this weekend

This weekend we hosted the group stages of a "world cup style tournament" of domestic lite beers.  We had a great turnout and the event was surprisingly fun.  Here is what our recycle bin looked like the next morning:

We had a lot of leftover lite beer:

Here are the results of the group stage.  Knockout round to follow.  We will get a keg of the winning beer for our wedding (unless big flats light wins, in which case it may be impossible to procure a keg).

Here is Patrick doing his best John Cusack impression after the rounds were over:

 

 The next day we went out to Whidbey Island to make Cider at my boss's place.  It was really fun, but I didn't take any pictures.  Here is a picture of the cider we made.  It was cool -- the apples get ground up then you press them and the juice comes out.  Pretty straightforward.  The cider is really good and we had a nice lunch.  We were going to go over to my Uncle's afterwards but Meghan wasn't feeling well so we just drove home.