Well, it seems our old friend Caly has finally cast off the shackles of her unlikeable job at Bobby Bead - don't get me wrong, she loved her coworkers, but her boss was insufferable. She has a new position lined up at the U of MN Music Dept., but before that she decided to announce that a bunch of people should show up (from both her former coworker and online social groups) at the Red Dragon, and boy, did they ever.
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Scott (convivial), Rachel (behind Scott), Caly (weirded-out) and Cali (contemplative)
Flasher-Girl (Emma), Carrie (DJ Rahna), Scott (S4), and Jarrin (parentheses)
The bead store half of the table: Cali, Marissa, Laura, (unknown), Christina, Emma, and Carrie.
This waitress appeared at one point to count us all. We thought we were in violation of some sort of fire code, but ten minutes later she came out with a tray of drinks (Marissa regards with alarm), holding one drink in her hand. "Warthog?" she asked. I asked the crowd, "Who ordered the Warthog?" Then I asked if it was from Warthog (hiding at the bar), and it was, so I figured this drink must be for Caly. But then the waitress starts unloading all the drinks and says more are on the way! Warthog bought everyone a round of Mai-Tais!
"Thanks, Warthog!!"
Michelle and Bob (a.k.a. "Bubbles"). She mitigated his temper; he only wanted to hear the Pogues and threatened to commando-raid the bar with a blunderbuss until he heard them.
433's younger brother, Stephan, who happened to be sitting at another table with two cute girls and some guy.
Shayna and Jayne show up! Bead store folk are numerically superior to the Ed's Room crowd, even with the crossover handicap.
Jeff arrives as Scott departs: the Theory of Conservation of Chair Mass.
Side of Jayne's interesting haircut.
Back of Jayne's interesting haircut.
Warthog (James) himself, lurking at the bar and grimacing for the camera.
Caly rubs her magical Mai-Tai and conjures forth the mystical Elysha and Dan! Hoopah!
Ursula doesn't care for a camera all up in her face like this.
Jeff gives his characteristic social-smirk and 433 simply plots his next move.
Laura and Shayna share so much love it fogs the camera.
For some reason, pockets of rocking-out erupted throughout the evening.
Just more aerial shoots of everyone in attendance.
Joe and Beth arrive! Ed's Room reprazent!
Carrie editorializes and tantalizes.
Sasha's able to show up!
Warthog refuses to open his eyes for any picture; Jarrin scolds me on his behalf.
How sad are you when you have to tag a bar bathroom for your turf...
The back of Ursula's head was pretty interesting too.
"Blah-blah-blah! I'm Caly! You better listen to me! Blah-blah-blah!"
THE END.