An hour after the Blue Angels soared above as part of Seafair, on a day that was only in the high 80’s (instead of record-breaking 100’s just days before), under the afternoon shade of the Bennett town homes bordering the alley, across from the Riley town homes on MLK, and book ended by recycle-bins that blocked vehicle traffic at both ends of the alley (with a Seattle permit of course)…
…the inaugural Alley Extravaganza kicked-off!
BBQ Ground Zero
The series of pictures (below) tells the story — neighbors getting to know each other, some meeting for the first time — BBQ’ing, sharing stories, and playing games.
I’ve posted all my photos here on Flickr. If you have photos, please post and leave a comment here so we know where to find them.
I’d also like to give many thanks to everyone that made this possible:
Neighbors brought food and drink, made donations, rolled over their grills, coolers, tables and chairs. Brett and Lauren’s drive-way was ground-zero. Seattle Housing Authority (Thanks Naomi!) contributed funding for food, translated our flyers into Amharic, Somali and Vietnamese. Halal meats were purchased from our new local grocery store “Shill Grocery Halal Meat” (on MLK at Columbian Way). Beer came from our local Georgetown Brewing Company (Thanks Andy!). The City of Seattle granted us a free block-party permit.
Jeremy, Tad, Brett and I has the pleasure of organizing the event, and look forward to the next neighborhood bash!
A Run on the Water Balloon tub! See if Tad and Jeremy can hold them off.
We represent cute around here!
Great conversation while we BBQ'd
2 responses so far ↓
1 Evelyn // Aug 5, 2009 at 5:43 am
Great! Loved seeing the pictures. Thanks for sharing.
2 Lauren // Aug 5, 2009 at 6:28 am
Brian, thanks so much to you, Tad, and Jeremy for organizing this. We had a great time, and hope it becomes and annual event. Thanks for sharing the photos as well. I need to get to mine too!
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