While I was sitting there, two guys showed up with upright basses and started playing together. They were both using bows and making haunting, mournful, beautiful sounds and a man wandered over holding his newborn son and was holding him up into the sound. All while reading a book about learning to let go and get lost in life moment to moment. Call it the reason I live here.
...Ellen's friend Terry! None of us really knew Terry that well - so after he found the baby in his piece of cake, people started explaining to him that since he was THE KING, everyone at the party would have to obey his every command or face PARTY BANISHMENT!
Around 5pm, we said farewell to the brand new Mr. & Mrs. Feeney (and spawn!) and then packed up our stuff and headed to the airport to catch our flight back to NYC! Congrats again, you three! Thanks for having us!
Lucy was so cute and charming that she even won over Meredith (who doesen't really like babies all that much....Shhhhh!) and Meredith pulled her in close to give her...
Then later that afternoon, we went back to the hotel to hang out with Greg and Tara one last time before we had to head home. Here's Tara with baby Lucy!
We all went to grab a quick bite at the hotel's restaurant (where we sat at a booth ACROSS FROM MC HAMMER and his "entourage" - I guess they were in town for the hip hop convention thingy) and Lucy and I got to know each other.
Then headed back downstairs to meet up with Tara and baby Lucy! This was the first time we'd gotten a chance to meet her! (The last time I saw Tara was exactly one year ago, back when Lucy was still being baked in the baby oven!)
...but from the front it looked like the little unborn baby version of Venom from Spiderman 3. We ended up spending almost three hours there! The exhibition was so awesome, if you ever get a chance to see it, you should go. It gave us all new insights into the wonder that is the human body.
And here's a human fetus (I think around 5 months?) that's had some sort of treatment done to highlight the bones. So amazing. It was really interesting how from the side it totally looked like a human baby...
Towards the end of the exhibit, they had a whole separate section that was filled with fetuses. (It was kept separate because apparently there are people who can look at bodies of dead adults diced up like carrots but can't, Jesus forbid!, stand to look at lil' innocent "unborn angels" treated the same way.) Anyway, here's the plastinated corpses of two siamese twins that died during birth. Crazytown!
Some of you may remember him from back in October of 2002, when he was just a leeeetle baby. Here's a pic from back then when Ross and Jord were getting ready to move to LA and we went out to Ross' parents in NJ to see the baby and see them off.
Photo of the best subway billboard ever. It's for a law firm that specializes in representing the parents of stupid children who ate lead paint. Stooopid baby! Soooo stoooopid!
Check out that smile! No, not mine, Dashiell's! Anyway I grab a hold of him and all of the sudden he lights up like a Christmas Tree and I'm all thinking I'm the shit because he's smiling and Jord's like - "Wow, look at that smile! He must really be letting go of ALOT of gas."
Amy and Abbey (who from the look of things is still getting used to the sensation caused from the wearing of the traditional "Italian Baptismal Buttplug.")
That's Casey holding Stephanie and Ken's adopted son. Moments after this picture was taken, somebody made me spit my drink out when I overheard them looking at him and remarking "Jesus Christ, that kid's got a head like a 5lb bag of sugar."
