Flickr photos

A bit random but I was browsing some of the photos of folks I know with Flickr accounts and came across a couple of photos I like, so here they are :-

Catch me if you can.

This weekend was top stuff, it was in fact so cool it was 'the shit'.

Photos for the evening can be found here :-
Mine
Josh's
Shell's

For Josh and Jez's combined birthdays we would be venturing to Vegas. Some incredible genius, im not sure who, came up with the idea of all the guys going dressed as pilots and all the girls going dressed as air hostesses. Mere words and photos are not capable of expressing what an utterly, utterly, brilliant idea this turned out to be! But here we go anyway...

The night began with Keith, Gordon and I and Gill, Kate, Heidi and Shell getting ready at Castle street. Soon the guys were kitted up and looking smart, our newly donned pilots outfits compelling us to stand upright with stomachs sucked in and chests stuck out. We couldn't help but grin like maniacs as we stared out ourselves in the mirror through our oversized aviator glasses. The girls followed shortly after, giggling away in tiny shirts'n'skirts, huge heels and tarty make-up with pill box hats. Solid. Outfits ready we stutted our way to The Wash for a few pre-club beers, the genius of the night increasing with each arriving Pilot and Air Hostess.





We left for Vegas, most Pilots with a Hostess in each arm. You might want to re-read that. How cool was that? Walking down the royal mile in my Pilots outfit with a barely dressed Hostess in each arm. Woot.

Something like twenty? or so of us finally decended on Vegas. We then spent a really excellent evening drinking and dancing right into the wee hours. Even Keith and I managed after some Corona, expert tuition and good male/female ratio :)

Flatwarming

Well on Saturday we finally had our flatwarming party. The theme for the evening was black and white. We decked the flat out in a combination of white and black ballons and ribbons. This was accompanied with an array of fairly lights that we had nailed to just about any surface that would accommodate them. All in all the place looked pretty darn cool. The Gulag(tm) in the flat was filled with 24 corrona, 18 IPA, 7 bottles of red wine, 2 bottles of white and a bottle of Champagne. One of these bottles of wine was empty and its contents inside us. All in all we were ready to receive our guests.

I think the black/white theme worked out pretty well. It was simple enough that most people could easily turn up in theme (and indeed had done so) whilst allowing those of a more flamboyant air to come all dressed up. Maybe next time a red / white theme? White Stripes. Woot!

The party really started kicking off around 21:30-22:00, it probably peaked around 01:30 with a full on party in the kitchen/lounge/hall/keiths room and stairwell before tailing off sharply around 03:00 to a one and a half room party. The hardcore remnants then kept going until ~04:40 when any remaining booze had become undistinguishable from the mountains of empties.

It was brilliant! I had a great time and I suspect that mostly everyone else had one as well. The night totally flew in to such an extent I almost felt cheated, it was over already? Noooo! I particulary enjoyed that there were quite a few normally disparate groups in attendance but that everyone appeared to be mixing well and having a good old banter. Woot! Much fun. The flat certainly bodes well for future parties. I mostly forgot to use my camera but will stick up some photos once I've had a chance to review them and peruse Gills camera as well, if anyone out there has any good one let me know and I'll link to them.

p.s. find additional blog entry below tallying the beer count.

Party beer tally

During the post party clear up I was becoming increasingly awe struck by the shear quantity of booze that had been drunk at the party. For my own amusement I decided to tally the empties for an estimate as to how much had been consumed. Here are the results :-

- 1 x Plastic Bin of unaccounted empties
- 1 x Bin bag worth of empties later discovered under Keiths bed
Plus
- 28 x Bottles of Wine
- 24 x Bottles of Corrona
- 23 x Cans of Miller
- 18 x Cans of Grolsh
- 17 x Cans of Heineken
- 12 x Small generic Belgian beer
- 9 x Bottles of Stella
- 9 x Bottles of Miller
- 8 x Wild n Whippy chocolates
- 6 x Cups of Tea
- 6 x Bottles of Coors
- 6 x Mr Kiplings Exceedingly good french fancies
- 5 x Bottle of large misc czech Lager
- 4 x Bottles of Arran Sunset
- 4 x Cans of Carling
- 4 x Cans of White Lightning
- 4 x Bottles of IPA
- 3 x Huge Bottles of San Miguel
- 3 x Bottles of Becks
- 2 x Bottles of Krononburg Blanc
- 2 x Cans of Magners
- 1 x Tiny minature of Glen Goymer
- 1 x Bottle of Champagne
- 1 x Bottle of Cragganmore whiskey
- 1 x Bottle of Willis Black
- 1 x Bottle of Willis Gold
- 1 x Bottle of Cobra
- 1 x Orange and Cranberry J2O
- 1 x Can of Budweiser
- 1 x Bottle of Hobgoblin

Beer-tastic. If anyone had booze that isnt listed feel free to post a comment with tallying your unaccounted booze.