Bexley made it! We were worried we wouldn't get to see him at all. |
Being that this is a special occassion, I got specially gussied-up. No one seemed to appreciate this. |
Molly, caught in the action effect of a shutter-drag. Tonight she sports pony tails! |
Sasha does that face she does when she's getting a picture taken with Martin; Martin can barely restrain his tremendous joy. |
The tops of the walls, ringing the room, portrayed a mural in which dozens of viking dwarves got very, very drunk and went out into the night. |
Caly arrives with her electric scarf, blinding anyone who glances at it. |
Jeremy's shocked to realize he's wearing Stan Broslofski's hat. |
Jarrin removes his coat with an action-sequence flourish, then leaves it on. |
Molly yells (surprise, surprise) at Jeremy (again, surprise) behind the back of Will (nothing but surprises). |
Jarrin winces; Caly senses danger; Bexley is lost in prosaic thought; Jordan commences to drinkin'. |
Martin receives a confusing phone call while I thank God, directly, for the sauteed mushrooms and rye. |
One quick phonecall later, I deliver Ursula to the restaurant as well. |
This is Jordan's expression - there is only one - and this is Jordan's unfinished meat. |
Uh-oh, it's that Tennessee Williams play, Night of the Cell Phones. |
Zhac shows up, a good 10' taller than normal but otherwise her usual self. |
What's funny is that Zhac thinks she's the one who'll look funny in these pictures. She just needs to select her company! |
Scott finds it funny that so many cameras are being pointed at him - you can't see that there are five more off to the side. |
Were we loud? Were we rowdy? Were we unreasonable? Our waitress actually snarled at us! She sounded like a wolverine! |
Scott just can't help admiring Sasha's long, lustrous locks... playing with them... he eats some after this. |
The merriment continues, conversations form, break up, reform like a big Lava Lamp lying on its side in a German restaurant. |
Oh yes, you've got to toast in a German bar. We toasted everything. We toasted the hell outta everything. |
Zhac wards Jarrin off with blows so powerful, you can actually see the chi flowing right out of her palms. |
I'm pretty sure they're talking about me so I shot a quick from-the-table pic of these two rabblerousers. |
Bexley prefers his scotch; Jordan will take a dark beer anyday; yet they're both headed towards Rome all the same. |
Behind the scenes, or behind most of the backs: I think that's a cooler for wine coolers? And then Martin. |
Beer, beer, we love our dark beer. Conversation goes so good with it! |
Evie, Will, and a scandalized Jeremy at some point in the evening. |
Zhac regards a catlike Caly, blinking contemplatively at the camera. |
OMG! Sasha needs to explain something to the other end of the table right now! |
Another fragment of conversation. I never did make it to the Other End of the Table. |
This is how the other half lives. |
This is how the other half gets silly. |
Unlike our end of the table! We're toasting our own righteousness! |
This must've been a pretty important moment, but I don't remember what it was. |
Martin looks like he's in perpetual tension, but actually he was having a pretty good time as far as I could tell. |
Yeah, I know. All the ladies love Spam. |
They're plotting to knock me down and steal my camera. They don't know my camera can record thoughts, too. |
Something about a few scotches and a roomful of busy activity that makes Bex a sleepy boy. |
Caly decides to retaliate at the last portion of the evening; Bex dresses and eventually drives his car, completely asleep all the while. |
Jeremy gets one more glance of the other waitress' ass. |
Our party bundles up and slowly trundles out the door - none of us are looking forward to the cold. |
Jarrin immediately claims the couch, without mercy or repent. |
Yup-yup, there's Jordan's Expression again. I guess it does vary slightly! |
Bexley begins the story of when he was smuggling guns out of a French-Vietnamese nightclub and ended up rescuing a trunk of gold boullion. |
Sasha and Martin find a pile of coats to get cozy on. |
Not satisfied with the fun quotient, Molly reaches into her Bag O' Tricks a-a-a-a-and... |
Cake! Cake, for whomever wants it! Have some cake! |
Martin loves it! He'd better: it's his birthday cake! |
Bexley: "But what's this green stuff on the bottom?" |
Ursula dresses up for a smoke break. |
The alcohol's hitting Sasha about now, and "sleepy" only comes after "silly" in the dictionary, trust me... |
Again, too much of a close-up: Molly forces Bexley to move over and make room on the couch. |
Yup, the silliness begins. |
You can see how silly it is because everybody's laughin'! |
For some reason the evening degresses into a series of paddlin's. |
First Molly, now it's Ursula's turn to get paddled. It went like this all night long! |