Highlight Reel 2009: 21st and 20th B'day Parties!!!!

Finally 21 and was it a blast!!!! With party favors and decorations (including that ridiculous birthday cake hat and glasses below) provided by mom, my Earlham friends + Eric threw me the best b'day bash I could have ever asked for. The night started off at Applebee's where I was given my evening apparel in the picture below. I should just give the girls money o buy my clothes for me, they always do a better job. Dinner was excellent and to top it off, Applebee's birthday song has a line about turning the b'day girl's cheeks blush....mine turned lobster red much to my embarrassment.

Coming back from Applebee's, we stopped in over at New Spanish for some preliminary toasting, celebrations, and games. Let's just say Team Golden (if you can't remember the rest of that name so sad) kicked butt against the Earlham Hall boys. As the night progressed, our group was serenaded by Earlham's own A Cappella group, the Brimley's, with a solo from Nick Chu (what a treat!) Then we took a trip into Richmond to test out my new powers of getting into the 21+ establishments, which worked out great. An awesome night from awesome people! Thank you guys x1000.

Over the summer, the fantabulous four had another triple-decker B'day adventure. (I think as a future guideline I should make extra efforts to be friends with people born in June...so far I'm 3/3 on them turning out to be really cool). Karman (mastermind of pretty much all of our surprises) and I (transportation coordinator) surprised Lo and Rachel and treated ourselves to a weekend stay in a cabin down in Southern Indiana.

While finding the cabin and getting to it was a little tricky (really glad we had the green pea and 4-wheel drive), the trip was amazing. We had an awesome time telling stories, cooking over the campfire, and bringing back the early 90s with an epic game of Pretty Pretty Princess. (If you had a young girl in your life during this time period and you don't recognize this game....you failed her.) I don't know about you girlies, but a camp out might have to become an annual event.