Crawfish Boil!

Souvenir cups

Over Memorial Day Weekend I experienced my very first Rizerfest Crawfish Boil. In its sixth year and running strong, this event has a huge turnout each year. I was especially excited to be there because I had never tried crawfish before and was eager to get a taste of the bayou!

Held in Santa Monica, this celebration was complete with 130lbs of southern raised crawfish, beer, flip cup, and lots of good people - it seems as if the atmosphere bred southern hospitality. Very rarely do you get a group of around 100 people (who are drinking) together without any disagreements. But the day really was perfect and everyone was beyond nice.

Sorry for eating you little guys!

Eating the crawfish was...interesting. I used to be a vegetarian and only started eating chicken and fish a year ago. So to have to twist the head off of these little suckers was pretty rough. Then again, I was hungry and they don't have much meat in them so eventually I got to the point where I was willing to do what I had to do to eat! And of course the beer washed the crawfish down perfectly.

Me and my friend Kathrin

I also had a blast playing flip cup. Somehow I had never played before and I had been missing out. I don't know how or why but for my very first game I was the anchor. We lost - but it wasn't my fault becuase I didn't even get the chance to drink. The second time I started our team off and was able to flip my cup on the very first try (hell yeah!) - we still lost though. By the third game we won but I had to stop drinking since I was the DD. Next time it's on though!

Overall, Rizerfest was a great time and I am already looking forward to next year's festivities.