La Boum

We threw a killer party last night for Gus' b'day. All told, I think that we had about twenty people. We worked really hard to get most of the prep done before people got here and so we were putting the first pizza in when the James and Kristina popped over. And then, it was a steady stream of friends and hot, cheesy goodness. We did a slight variation of our wildly popular sausage and fresh pineapple pizza by substituting a hard salami for the sausage. Oh, was it tasty. We also did a lot of veggie pies, too, but the meat seemed to win out because between the pesto base and the salami, the crust got supersaturated with olive oil. That made it incredibly soft and yet perfectly crusty at the same time. No one seemed to mind slamming either type down, though; the pies disappeared as fast as they'd come out of the oven. There was lots of animated conversation, and in an apartment the size of ours, that led to a volume level that nearly sent me into the bedroom for a while to de-stimulate my senses. But I just holed up in the corner of the living room and watched and then I was ok. Gus reveled in it all and seemed very satisfied by the end of the night. I think that having people fete you is always a good thing, right?