There is no better way to spend a Friday than cooking a 200 pound pig while preparing for your closest 150 friends to come over.  I don't really have 150 friends.  I'm not sure I even have 15!  For 9 years (from 2002 through 2010) my wife and I hosted an annual pig roast. 

Cooking the pig took about 12 hours in a 400 gallon steel grill big enough to cook over 200 hamburgers.  We typically used 140 pounds of charcoal and 2 gallons of BBQ sauce. 

The party usually started around 2PM with fireworks at 10:15 PM.  The highlights throughout the years always included something strange - mud volleyball, snowmobiles across the pond (sometimes sinking), or a helicopter landing in the front yard.