my belated bday surprise

Posted in Uncategorized on May 02, 2008

lillis is of course quite a sweetheart, and as such she came up with an ingenious plan of having a surprise bday for me a week and a half after my bday so we could go to the Seinfeld show. i purposely didn’t do ANY looking at what was going on in atlanta so that i could be as surprised as possible by my birthday surprise. i had almost no inkling anything was up until we walked into Front Page News and there were a few tables of my friends there. she’s both sneaky AND thoughtful! here is a picture of us just as we’re walking in.

and here’s a wonderful self-portrait of the elder allvines

we were glad that rod and susanne could come and susanne and sue even chaparoned lillis and i to Seinfeld to ensure i didn’t do anything “untoward” when the lights went out in the Fox. and, of course, you may remember rod from such famous blog postings as “a rainey day in paris” or “charles and the giant camel.”

here are two lovely ladies. their cute smiles mask their extreme hunger!

here are trey and christina. trey is the reason i had some inkling i might be going to seinfeld. i mentioned i had no idea of any events that were going on in atlanta that friday….well, except for a phone conversation with trey that went like this me: “we should get together soon” trey:”i’m going to seinfeld on friday.” me:”well, lillis has a super secret surprise for me on friday.” trey:”um, well cool…..maybe you guys will go to seinfeld.” : )

here are lillis and sara. sara’s pregnant, but you can’t tell b/c this is more of a head shot. or a head and shoulders shot. anyway, you can’t see her abdomen.

and here we see kashi, nathan, susanne and sue. nathan looks almost too happy here. he must be up to something! oh, and congrats to kashi. she now has her masters degree. speaking of which lillis is considering one as well, but i don’t want to be like nathan and have my girlfriend have an impressive honorific whilest i have none. i may get an advanced degree out of spite.

oh, and here is the link to lillis’ photo album if you want to see all the photos she took.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lclewis831/CharlesBDaySurprise5208

as always, lillis is wonderful and thoughtful, and i was very grateful for the effort she put into pulling the evening together. btw, seinfeld was great, but i don’t recommend the 10PM show. the second half of his show was much better than the first half, but by then lillis was a vegetable, and i was shotgunning her coke in an attempt to stay alert. : ) oh, and chuck martin opened up for him and he was pretty darned funny as well. i won’t even mention what his jokes taught lillis : )

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