Every year during the last weekend of September, Kevin cooks a lot of pork - or BBQ as they call it down here - for his fraternity's annual Pig Pickin'. This year was no different than the rest...he and his college buddy, Chris, were up at the crack of dawn getting the cooker fired up to smoke 70 pounds of BBQ for 100 fraternity brothers and their families.
It takes about 8 hours to cook all the meat. Eli and I hung out outside with Kevin and Chris for a long time - it was a beautiful afternoon. Here's how E spent his time...
Kevin, Chris and Eli right before they took the BBQ off the cooker.
All of the above happened on Friday; the actual Pig Pickin' event was on Saturday. It was far too hectic to take a camera to the event, so we only took a few pictures with our phones. The typical schedule of a pig pickin' day is:
Noon: Everyone arrives and hangs out for a while
12:30: Eat!
2:00: Alumni/Undergrad Football Game
5:00ish: Everyone packs up and goes home
Like I mentioned above, about 100 people came this year. It was fantastic. It's a mix of old alumni from UNC Charlotte with their families and young undergrad students. Here are a few more pictures from the day.
sipping southern spirits
eli holding the "Icard Cup". seriously, they have a trophy called the "Icard Cup" in honor of Kevin saving their fraternity in the late 90's.
and this isn't pig pickin', but it was the night before and eli was "rockin' my baby" as he likes to say. sweet dreams.
