apologies for the delay, but i just had to wait for these pictures to accurately depict how fun the party was, as well as how ridiculous i got as the night went on. that’s the beautiful thing about birthdays; everyone keeps buying you drinks, so you never look into your wallet and think, ‘hey, where’d all my money go? guess i better slow down.’

there was plenty of regular standing around and talking, then eventually dancing once the crowd got loosened up a bit. then, of course, we decided to be stupid. or rather, did not decide not to be stupid, and attempted a classic stunt from high school in which my very stout and strong friend gabe and i pull off a move from dirty dancing. makes sense, right?

as you can see on these three different attempts, the first was a warm up, the second we pulled it off, and then the third we got greedy and i landed on my head. pay extra attention the facial expressions of the strangers in the background. they’re so good it’s like we told them to pose.

overall the weekend was amazing. lots of eating and drinking and fun and not a lot of sleeping. plus the first time in forever that i stayed up until almost 5am just having beers and shooting the shit with a buddy, which is always really satisfying because you know there are only a few people in the world that can ever happen with. real friends can move away all they want but you know you’ll always be able to sit down and talk about pretty much anything. so i’m extra grateful gabe and alexis were able to come visit, super happy ted was able to make it down to DJ and put our party over the edge, but equally grateful that the whole weekend was just such a good time.

who cares about getting old, shit is good!