Tri-Birthday 2006

Claudia, Dan and I once again pulled together the forces that are our birthdays and held a kickin' party Feb. 25 in Seattle on a party bus, at Chuck E. Cheese and at the Twilight Bar.

The night started with this party "bus," picking up 18 of us from Dan and Dom's apartment in Capital Hill. While enjoying top notch beverages, (Olympia, LaBatt, Miller High Life, Sparks, other spirits), we were honored with the brilliant cinematic masterpiece, "Trapped In The Closet," a fine musical drama written by R. Kelly, in which about a dozen characters go through a heart-wrenching adventure of love and relationships, involving guns, family members, little people, cigarette-toting cops, pastors, gay lovers, R. Kelly hiding in closets and really bad wigs. Moral of the story: If you are a woman who hooks up a girlfriend with a man, don't mess around with said man. However, the result makes for an incredibly fascinating and note-worthy piece of art.

Ah, yes, the best place on earth - Chuck E. Cheese. Cheese pizza, an animatronic band and loads and loads of chances to win for prizes that bode well for "thinking" at work. The goal of the night? Winning a Slinky.

Yeah, we were pretty sure we were going to get kicked out - Nearly two dozen 20-somethings in the land of children. However, no matter the age, everyone was a winner!!!! And they still had Skee Ball! But no Whack-A-Mole.

Rachel, trying to guess the cacophony of flavors David mixed together for a fantastic drink from the soda fountain.

This was the one game Randy found that paid out tickets big time. He was going for 175 tickets during the course of the night to win a Slinky, but we had to leave before he could finish. So he gave the rest of his tokens to the first kid he saw and I gave the kid and his dad our 122 tickets.

i just want to pinch his cheeks.

Pictures of other good lookin' people:

Mmmmmm. Sparks - Liquid Sweettarts.

Fake tattoos were popular this evening, including inappropriate means of applying them.

So Galaga was at the Twilight, not The Cheese, but was perfect with the theme of the evening. Finding such game machine treasures always makes my night. Ms. Pacman and Frogger would have been the icing on the cake.

Literally, how I felt at the end of the night.