As mentioned before, we were there for a church service that included a dance recital by their friend
I wore the closest I had to pink, which was a fairly magenta shirt - especially compared to them. Ah well - this was my first time meeting Tammy, anyway. Who is definitely a very pink person.
As reported, the religious aspects of the situation didn't cause me too much anguish, and the dance parts were a lot of fun. And I was hanging out with cool people, so all was good.
I managed a few photos of the drive home, because, well, one must do what one can to embarass one's friends, no? These pictures were taken with my phone camera, and some have a green streak I'll hopefully be able to fix, later - there's software for it, but it's being an installation nightmare. [EDIT: Finally got around to fixing them 3 months later]
Lucinda drove us all the way there and back with her usual grace and aplomb:
The other three travelers passed out on the drive home, making them easy photographic prey. I've got a number of pictures, but Tim has threatened grave personal harm if I publish his, so I'll just put up one with half a Tim instead - and Mikey&Debbie being unbearably cute (As usual):
And, finally, a quick shot of what Lucinda fought with almost the whole drive home:
Between traffic and storm, we actually spent more time on the road than both the service and lunch.
In fact, I didn't get to my car until a little before 6:00. And I was kinda grimy. So I came home as fast as I could, showered, changed, then rushed to the bar - getting there around 7:30. Not a lot of people right then, but they started showing up fairly rapidly. I finally got going around 8:10, which wasn't too shabby given the timing.
It was a pretty good crowd, in part because it was Debbie's last night here on the left coast. At least I'm pretty sure that had a lot to do with why Mikey, Lucinda,
It was also Matt King's birthday, and he decided to celebrate by going to the bar with Marli. So I got to hear her sing after quite a while of doing without.
The first rotation in fact expanded to 23 singers - and dropped off from there. For one thing, Debbie wasn't feeling it, and went home early, and people started drifting off. Still, between people staying and new people showing up, I only did 5 rounds before closing at about 1:40.
Then it was back to transport time - I took Heather to her grandmother's, then took
And then I woke up today at 11:00. I've been relatively unproductive, in part because I'm still tired. But I need to run out and get that bank account started...