After Berlin’s sweet 16, we headed out to our side of town to celebrate with our friends, our typical Dark Ones party. The theme this year was Men In Tights, and since I didn’t have any, I just wore my Kilt.
We socialized with our usual friends.
I can’t believe this baby girl has turned into a young adult cutie. I know Jaime and I were one of the first non-family members to see her when she was born. We were one of the first who knew Camille was pregnant with her… and now she’s grown up.
I was a little emotional just thinking about this day as it was happening, how much we’ve been part of our friends’ lives and getting to witness them growing up. It’s beautiful.
We had a great time at the Phoenix Scottish Festival. We brought Allysen with us and even met up with our friends who run AZ Tardis, getting to know them a little more. They had their own tent and are part of a clan, I forget which. Anyway, we didn’t get any photos with them there. Speaking of photos, here’s just a couple I took.
We practiced for just over a month to get our playlist down and getting everyone to start, stop, and articulate specific parts together so we sound like we know what we are doing! It all paid off! I think we did a good job and while we didn’t get to do all our songs, what we did do, we did well!
The day after we got back from Los Angeles, I flew out to Tampa for a leadership team Onsite. We flew our people leaders out to do some leadership exercises and have them build our strategy for the year. We also got to have them bond with everyone over activities and of course, drinks!
It was great to hang out with everyone and for them all to meet and all that good stuff. We also fed everyone. A pretty fun time, despite all the work we had to do.
At the end of it all, I got to spend a good part of the day hanging out with my Marine brother, John and his family. We had some good quality time together until I had to get to the airport. I took them to lunch and then out for chocolates, we got to see a dead body, and a cool place where they sold custom shoes. I’m also in a tiktok, but I’m not sure if that video is still up, maybe I can paste the facebook copy of it.
When John dropped me off at the airport for my ride home, I got to run into Rob who I also served with, he was visiting family in Florida. Literally got to see two Marine brothers who I served with in the early 90s at the same airport on the same day, 30+ years later.
Here’s a few pictures from the trip.
We had such an amazingly fun time at GallifreyOne. Jaime debuted her Anne Droid because we knew Billie Piper would be there… and she took a photo with us!
Our friend, Allison, got a free photo with Alex Kingston!
I got to meet Annette Badland! She’s very nice!
Aside from all our celebrity stuff, we met with so many people that we had interactions with in the past that remembered us and vice versa, also because of our being so familiar with the place, the events, the people, we were much more social with everyone.
Jaime and I left for Gallifrey1 a day early so that we could have a fun meal at a gluten free sushi restaurant. It was a pretty sweet day!
It was pretty special to attend a karaoke party that the Southwest Vocal Alliance was holding to throw a party for Allysen and another member. I got to hear some pretty good talent do karaoke! What a treat!
As usual this time of year, we headed out to Tempe for their library convention. While we met up with a whole bunch of people there, I only took one good enough quality photo of our core group. Afterwards we went out to dinner on that side of town at a pretty decent gluten free place.
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