Saturday, May 9, 2009

Day 1 - Farewell party at O'Connells

Saturday, May 2nd is where we begin our long extended farewell to the nations capital.  Good friends Scott and Gina Trent arranged for a "small" gathering of friends at our favorite local watering hole, O'Connells.  

Someone started the evil trend of ordering double vodka sodas in pint glasses, which basically look like water glasses, but are not actually filled with water.  Evil I tell you.  I made the mistake of joining this trend and had as many as I could before Kevin started trying to temper me by substituting my doubles with ACTUAL glasses of water with lime, thinking I was too loopy to know the difference.  This worked once or twice, but didn't help. Nice try Duffy!  I saw Dan Connor drinking multiple straight whiskey drinks and other brave souls were doing shots.  Things got a little rowdy.   

The night started with a quiet dinner and ended.........., I am actually not quite sure how it ended, but I have a vague recollection of lights coming on in the bar, managers dragging us our the front door by the back of our necks kicking and screaming and then getting a cab ride home. Needless to say, our Sunday was spent nursing the hangovers on the couch and NOT accomplishing all the tasks we were supposed to get done before the movers were to come on Tuesday.  Oh, well - nothing like waiting until the last minute, right? 

Thanks to everyone who came out to say goodbye!  We are especially grateful to those who we know went the extra mile to get babysitters and rearrange schedules so they could make an appearance!  We are really going to miss all of our friends we have made over the years and we were serious about those invitations to come visit!   There is nothing like a familiar friendly face when adjusting to a new place.  We can't wait to see all of you again soon! 

I apologize for not having the foresight to take pictures, but I promise that will be remedied from here on out! 

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