a thing in 170 photos in 2011 best showing 2011 only · show all years Quite the exclusive birthday lunch. Oh, man. I love Nitro so much. Here we go! ...we'd made it to the (almost totally empty) parking lot. We'd made such good time on the way down that we had plenty of time to set up my camera to try to catch shots of us jumping in the air using the auto-timer. Haha. We met up at the coffee shop below my apartment and headed out to pick up our rental car. Happy birthday, Gurj! Space walk back up the mountain! ...and the second for the win! Ellen doing the Happy Snoopy! ...until you get icing smeared all over your face. Oh, get outta town! If there were a JC Penny catalog for wizards, it would look like this. Sarah performs her tree-shrinking spell! Yay! Magic sun. Auto-timer to get myself in! When I commission a Gurjeet statue, it will be in THIS pose! Hahaha. Kiss? Maddy's first visit to C-Tav. ...at Cherry Tavern. As far as "this is my last night in NYC" photos go, this is a pretty good one. Bye, Carol! We'll miss you! Nom nom. I chatted with him a bit (very nice guy) and asked him if I could have some birdseed. He reached into his pockets... Maneki-neko , paw paw.On the walk back through the park, we stopped to watch a gentleman who was making a big show of getting crazy with the pigeons. Leigh thinks pigeons are terrible filth-birds and couldn't even watch what he was doing. Hahaha. I brought along my new camera and was playing around with it getting used to shooting with it in different settings. Casual babeness. Later that night we went over to vBar for Carol's going away party! Such a fun crowd. Aki is one of the organizers of PechaKucha night and she asked me if I'd put together a presentation about something so I put one together... (I still dream about this.) Hoverboard! ...then this. Steep! ...Marco Monkeybody! Kneeling into your boots is never not-funny. Hey, it's Timmy Tinylegs... Snowboarding down a steep incline with a foot of powder is like a barely-controlled fall through the clouds. So steep! Here's a picture of Grant getting ready to drop in from up above. The mountain is so steep that when you're facing uphill you only have to bend your knees slightly to be kneeling on the mountain! Oh, were you ladies interested in some alpine activities? My favorite houseboats. "...once he hears to his heart's content, sails on, a wiser man." Andrew's Ass! 15 POINTS! (+10 points if bare!) Hahaha. ...and got this pic of our whole team in the back! 25 POINTS! If you've got to talk to strangers and ask them to do weird things, you want Catrinel on your team! Not even a block later, jazz hands with a stranger! 10 POINTS! Before we'd even left the park, Cat managed to charm a stranger into letting her push a baby in stroller. 10 POINTS! 50 points for each team member! Awwww, yeah! Amazing. ...AUDITIONING AT PUMPS! 50 POINTS! Thanks! Class portrait take one had a finger over the lens. Solid showing for 2am. Side-view of the sleepiest pooch. Not one, but TWO king cakes! Happy birthday, you two! A little after midnight, Amanda came over and Mer got dressed up for the party (holy moly!). Ellen put the mask on and was transformed into a superhero who stops crime by being adorable. Walking back to our apartment; arms laden with presents. (PS - Babes!) Make a wish! Box o' birthday cupcakes! If you look closely you'll see the eye and the teeth are cut-outs from a magazine. So good. Serious Photoshop SKILLZ! Haha. So good! I got home just in time to give Meredtih a hand cutting up the homemade FRUIT LEATHER she'd made with her food dehydrator! Fatty was telling us about how Marina was getting annoyed at him because he really enjoyed posting... ...ugly photos of Henry to the interwebs. Hahahah. This is a picture of the birthday cake that Pauline (Grant's mom!) was given by her friends. She owns a salon and offeres bikini waxes (along with many other services) but her friends decided to make her a birthday cake about waxing! Hahaha. UNBELIEVABLE! Gurj is a barrel-exploding JEDI! Gurj crashed on our couch. Here's us all bundled up to hustle to the subway. He made an entire bed canopy out of string and fallen tree branches he found while walking around. Big dreamers need jumbo dream-catchers. ...we went over to the West Village... Katie & Siege. :) Here we go! (PS - Jared's expression in this photo makes me laugh so hard).
