Okay. Take two.
So last night, I was ready to live blog the Cheers & Jeers dinner. I prepped a diary with photos of everyone arriving at the Hilton on Wednesday, during the day. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any connectivity in the restaurant so I had to go upstairs to the sidewalk and post. That was a mistake because I couldn't maintain the diary from the restaurant PLUS it was a zoo in our private room as you shall soon seeing. There was jumping up and down hugging, drink, massive grinning and beaming, screaming, drink, constant chatter, laughing, more hugging, drink, posing for photos, drink, food. It was basically nuts.
So let's try this again:
Common Sense Mainer and Bill in Portland Maine
For chronology purposes, let's start with Tuesday:
From our lunch:
Bill in Portland Maine, Meteor Blades and vicki
Common Sense Mainer has this pat response when vicki is making strong statements challenging him
It was a giant family reunion.
Oke signing Bill in Portland Maine's autograph book
rfall, Julie Gulden and Common Sense Mainer
Julie Gulden
Spousal Unit and Sharoney
maggie jean and Bill in Portland Maineand Common Sense Mainer photobombing...
Mik hugging Bill in Portland Maine
vicki hugging Arenosa
Brillig and Julie Gulden
Back row: Oke, maggie jean, mik, Bill in Portland Maine and vicki
Middle row: Julie Gulden, brillig, Arenosa, Sharoney and her spousal unit
Always kneeling: Common Sense Mainer
Convergence of Daily Kos orange polish, note that there was a quest for the DK4 actual tone. Smiley Creek in the fun blue thong, maggie jean going commando and me in the tasteful Cole Haans.
Smiley Creek and maggie jean
Bill in Portland in Maine doing a papal visit with Paradise50
Deoliver47 and Oke
Shanna Ingalsbee and her all volunteer check-in team
Texasmom and Mr. Texasmom
Now for the party!
We all gathered at Hell's Kitchen near the Hilton
The RSVPee-ers increased from 50 to 70 in just a few hours so Bill had to do a TURBO meet and greet
Tex Dem, Julie Gulden and jnhobbs
side pocket, Mrs. side pocket, Mr. Texas Mom and Texas Mom
BFSkinner and Transactivist and Rosemary (I asked these kossacks to tell me who they are in the comments and I'll update)
jotter was so happy, he clutched both aha aha (Mrs. jotter) and me in a hug and said "gawd, I love this!" It was his Big Love moment.
The momcat and ek hornbeck
bird brain
My buddy, ed tracy
Common Sense Mainer, aha aha (Mrs. jotter,) Bill in Portland Maine and jotter
blurry but posting anyway... sidnora and Common Sense Mainer with a photobomb by Billy boy
sidnora and Common Sense Mainer
legendmn and Common Sense Mainer
legendmn's entire photo album can be seen here. He has a good camera.
jotter is just a love bug, here is with vicki
jotter getting a little vicki ponytail toupee
jotter between Paradise50 and Smiley Creek
? Jeff in CA, Joe F, Ed in Montana and Lefty Coaster
L-R: Lulu, jolux, mnkid, Sidnora and devtob
? and Common Sense Mainer
?, ? and Parry Ander
ek hornbeck and the momcat
Land of Enchantment scrolling through her captures to show me a wooden indian and his feathers were lolly pops. Ugh, that's navajo for gah.
cskendrick peeking over the top of my head to say hi
He didn't like this photo so we took some more
cskendrick, a portrait
A pensive cskendrick
Bill in Portland ? and ?
From L to R: Oke, Mrs. side pocket, side pocket, maggie jean, Julie Gulden, Mr. Texas Mom, Texas Mom and rfall.
Standing: Ramara and loggersbrat
BEHOLD!
And from the camera of legendmn:
(I've run out of time to caption each photo... sorry. I got places to go, people to meet...)
introducing Trashablanca
L-R: Lulu, jolux, mnkid, Sidnora and devtob