Banquet

Last night, I was reminded of how cool our guy friends are. We arrive in the parking lot of the church at about 5:45, as scheduled. Then Brian Mays whips out a bundle of PINK ROSES, and Booker distributes them to all the women. That was very sweet. I have never received a rose from a guy before.

But that's not all. Suddenly, out of nowhere (actually, out of the Hades that was May Avenue that night), comes this BLACK LIMOUSINE! Wow. We all were floored. How nice! It was a nice limo...with little star lights in the ceiling that would change color.

Everyone looked really cute. I wore Mel G's pink princess dress, complete with choker and pink ring. I love that ring. I told Misti that I would have as much of an obsession with it as I did her pig slippers. She told me to wear both at once. Hmmm...I don't think her pig slippers would fit my gargantuan feet. Sigh.

We arrived at Cole's Garden in style. After that, we went inside for the banquet. They served margharita chicken, rice, green beans, and dessert. It was very tasty. Then we watched a show from Off Broadway Productions. In one of the skits, they kept referring to a lady called Ms. Gertrude, and I would look at Rich and start laughing. In another one, they said "stuff," and everyone at out tables (there were about 4 tables of our group) started cracking up. At one point, Leigh Ann got to be on stage,acting as one of the actor's dates. (We volunteered her.) At another point, they asked for an obsurd Christmas crime for one guy to guess. I suggested they use candy-caning Santa's house. (You know, in the manner of forking.)

During the banquet, Jay would hand out door prizes. Some of said prizes were in little musical bags that would go off, summarily making everyone crazy. The prizes ranged anywhere from plastic Snow Man cups (like the one Booker got) to coffee sets. One person got this Christmas throw blanket that looked really comfy. Brian Mays won a cookie kit with a Christmas tree cutter. The presents were really cool. Of course, I didn't win anything. Ah, well. I did get a nice candy bag, though.

Well, afterwords, after taking one million pictures between us, we returned to the church. Then we all went to Starbucks in our dressy couture. Of course, Rich busted out Mad Libs. He and several other people went to a table to play Mad Libs. Meanwhile, I talked with Cindy, Misti, Craven, and Mays about many things. (No, Craven did NOT do his studly rooster man, to our disappointment.)

After THAT, we all went to Brian Mays' house. We saw the DVD of the skit we did in November. The cool part is, the guy who played Jesus, when he spread his hands, it seemed that there wad BLOOD on them. Well actually it was just the shadow. But it was really cool nonetheless.