In 2019 we decided to take a vacation from our messed up little planet and head to the Drunk Side of the Moon. As a quick FYI to those of you who were not in attendance, it turns out that it is just as hot on the far side of the moon as it is at Camp McCarty on any typical mid-July day. So, as always, copious amounts of adult beverages were required to beat the heat and enjoy our mini-vacation from reality. Vodka & Tang would have been an appropriate choice, but we stuck to what we know and provided beer instead.
This was also the year that Dale followed through on his often-threatened change and moved the annual golf outing to the weekend before McCarty Party. It turns out that most of our long-time patrons need at least a week of recovery time between being (over-)served by our beer bunnies and being able to attend the party itself. Considering that we now have the daughters of long-time patrons acting as beer bunnies, we really should have seen this coming years ago.
2019 also saw the first (and possibly last) running of the Rubber Duck Regatta. This event was sponsored by the Bellbrook Yacht Club, an organization so exclusive that you have to be a member to even know who the members are. Unfortunately, we discovered that even rubber ducks would rather cluster in the shade than try to race on a hot summer’s day.
Now as most of you know, McCarty Party is big on tradition. And high on the list of traditions (drinking beer is, of course, still number one) is participation. We don’t have drinking events, body painting, and the Underwear Underground for ourselves… we do it for you. So don’t come as a spectator, join in the fun. We understand that not everyone is still capable of competitive beer drinking, but come on, anyone can lip-sync to a song… that requires even less talent than karaoke!
