Pictures from our DU dinner last night!

[VenusRising]

A good time was had by all. Wish you could have all been there, but you'll have to settle for pictures instead. :P

Me taking a picture of lelapin taking a picture of me.


lizziegrace and billyskank


lizziegrace, Joan_Alpern, lelapin, billyskank, and Zodiak Ironfist.


Same as above, but with me on the end.


Group picture before leaving Johnny Rockets:
VenusRising, Zodiak Ironfist, lelapin, lizziegrace, billyskank, and Joan_Alpern.

[bigwillq]

1. Great pics!

Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[VenusRising]

3. They are all lovely people who deserved to be shared!

How are you?

:hi:

:hug:

[bigwillq]

5. I'm well.

I hope you guys had a good time! :)

[VenusRising]

7. I think we had a great time.

Lots of chatting and laughing.

I'm glad you're doing well. :)

[liberaldemocrat7]

104. Very nice pictures.

The group looks very good. Good to see everyone had a good evening together and that you met through DU.

[ohiosmith]

2. Cool pics

[VenusRising]

6. Thanks.

Cool people!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. adorable bunch!

[VenusRising]

10. Yes, but we needed someone for the cleavage shot.

Where were you last night?? :P

:hug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. ya know yesterday was the only day in the week i wore something that didnt reveal cleavage

:P

seriously though, its true

[VenusRising]

14. Well, then we were just SOL, I guess.

:P

[derby378]

8. Thanks for sharing!

A good-looking bunch y'all got there! :hi:

[VenusRising]

12. Glad you enjoyed the pictures.

:hi:

[ZombieNixon]

9. *sigh* If only that crazy British guy had arrived a week later.

I could've been in those pics. :P Nice ones, though. :D

[VenusRising]

16. There was much sadness about you not being there.

Although, there were quite a few cute moments where lelapin turned a little pink at the mention of your name.

I think at one point she matched her shirt. :P

[ZombieNixon]

20. Hmm...so yinz all was talking about me, eh?

:o :P

[VenusRising]

28. Nothing bad, of course.

I heard a funny story about you at the airport. :rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

34. WHAT?!!!

x( It was the one where I got lost coming out of the CMH terminal, right? :P

[VenusRising]

39. Ummmm.....

no?

:hide:

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

42. I figured it was that one.

My compendium of "Funny Things I've Done At Airports" is quite thin, actually. :P

[VenusRising]

52. That's probably a good thing!

;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

53. Oh, crap

:hide:







I love you? :loveya: :P

[lizziegrace]

57. heh...

:popcorn:


She told it in a nice way...

Does that help??

[ZombieNixon]

64. Yes, I love you, too, dear.

Luckily that's the only Odd/Strange Thing I've Done In An Airport I can remember. :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

68. Hey, don't jinx yourself for Friday!

:P

[ZombieNixon]

71. Hey, shut up!

x( :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

72. Hee...

Hey, it could be worse. I could have gone on and on last night about you being called HBLL. :P

[ZombieNixon]

73. *snorts* Oh.

All right...:P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

75. Hehehe...

I was merciful. This time. :P

[lizziegrace]

76. You mean

huggy bear lum-lums?? :shrug:

What's wrong with that??

:P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

78. OK, she said it, not I!

:hide: :P

[ZombieNixon]

79. Would you subject yourself to actually saying that in public?

Hmm?! :freak: :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

81. Yes.

Next question? :P

[ZombieNixon]

82. Ahh, hell.

x( No further questions. :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

83. *snerk*

That's what I thought. :P

[LadyoftheRabbits]

22. ...

:blush:

[VenusRising]

27. There she goes!

:rofl:

:hug:

[liberaldemocrat7]

105. You look like a cutie lelapin. Nice smile.

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. Then maybe he wouldn't have had his hands

all over your gf.











Don't mind me. I'm just trying to stir up an international DU war.

[ZombieNixon]

70. That's it! I'm declaring war on Hare Krishnas.

I'll start with the ones that hand out free samosas and sing outside of the Acacdemic Center. x( :P

[Blue Diadem]

13. Look at all those smiles!

Great pics, looks like everyone had a good time.

[VenusRising]

19. It was a lovely evening.

It was like having dinner with long-lost friends.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

15. Awesome!

That was great fun. :D :hug: :hi:

[VenusRising]

23. Yes, it was!

I can't wait to do it again. :)

:hi::hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

17. Great pics! Great people!

Thanks for sharing! :hi:

[VenusRising]

24. Glad to be able to share.

I was wondering if I would ever find my camera cord that was packed from moving last week.

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

18. Wow... they are great!

I am momentarily over my persecution complex long enough to say

it looks like a good time was had by all! And, thank you for sharing these! :D

[VenusRising]

25. Awww.

:hug::hug::hug:

Feel better, sweetie! :loveya:

[ThomCat]

21. You look so much like the the friend I spent Sunday with.

and I am so glad that I got to talk to you.

Hmmm... Zodiak Ironfist is the only one of you that I'm not familiar with. I'll have to look him up. If he's in that group he must be a great guy. :)

:hi:

[VenusRising]

26. Talking to you was great!

Zodiak Ironfist is my husband. ;)

One of my goals is to now visit you and make you fried potatoes. :P

:hi::hug::loveya:

[ThomCat]

29. Yum!

:9

:rofl:

:loveya:

[VenusRising]

32. I'd send it through the mail

but no one wants soggy fried potatoes. :rofl:

[ThomCat]

37. Now that everyone knows by addiction

I'm doomed. Doomed, I tell you. :P

But it's true that the thing to bribe me with, if I'm ever in a position to take a bribe, are fried potatoes. I'm so corrupt. :7

[VenusRising]

41. But it takes work to corrupt you.

Potatoes don't fry themselves, ya know. :P

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

33. ...

:hug:



Miss you. :(

[ThomCat]

48. I miss you too.

:hug:

You are awesome company. Of course, you're awesome company a whole lot for a few weeks. I hope you get through it without being exhausted the whole time.

[Zodiak]

94. Yeah, I felt a little like a stranger since I'm a GDer

...but I was accepted without question, as I would expect any DUer to do.

Many jokes were told, as well as a little life-history.

[ThomCat]

95. That's great. And now that you know some loungers

maybe you'll poke your head in here occassionally. :)

We don't bite, unless you ask nicely.

[Zodiak]

98. LOL....I do poke m nose in here from time to time

If there is a bass playing thread, metal thread, or a bug thread that mike_c hasn't handled, I will come a'running.

I enjoy a good knock-down-drag-out, hence you see me in GD and GD-P most often. But the armor chafes sometimes. Good to take it off and chew on a burger in a laid-back atmosphere.

[Inchworm]

30. lots of smiling goin on there

yay!

:hi:

[VenusRising]

36. Yes, lots of smiling!

:hi::hug:

[lizziegrace]

31. Yay!!!

:bounce:

I miss them...

:(

[VenusRising]

35. It was far too short a visit.

We'll have to billy and Joan-nap them.

You have a basement to put them in, right? :evilgrin:

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

40. I do!

it's dark and damp and full of spiders. ;)


:)

[VenusRising]

43. Good thing we have Zodiak.

He can go down there and flush out all the bugs :thumbsup:

[ThomCat]

44. I still think we should pick a central location, reserve an

entire cheap hotel for a long weekend and have a national meet-up.

I can't travel worth a damn, but even I'd find a way to get there. Can you imagine a crowd of DUers wandering from room to room congregating in different combinations? That would be a weekend nobody would forget! (Except the heavy drinkers in the rooms at the end of the hall) :P

[VenusRising]

47. That would be so much fun.

Count me in!

But I don't want a room at the end of the hall. Those DU drinkers get rowdy!

[redqueen]

38. Awww! Looks like y'all had a great time!

Wish I was there. :hi:

[VenusRising]

49. It was a great time.

Everyone was there in spirit. :hi:

[Kajsa]

45. Great pictures, VenusRising!

Everyone looks great!

It looks like you had a lot of fun.

DU meet-ups ARE fun.

Thanks.

:hi:

[VenusRising]

50. Glad you enjoyed the pics.

We had a lot of fun.

:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

46. nice pics

I've still yet to meet a DUer in person.

[VenusRising]

51. Last night was a first for me.

And it was so worth it.

If you ever have the chance, take it! You won't regret it. :bounce:

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. *That's* the dude I talked to??

He could've at least shaved. :eyes:

[VenusRising]

58. He's cute and fuzzy.

What more could you ask for?


Nevermind.....don't answer that. :rofl::rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

60. For him to shave closer

to my house.

x(

[VenusRising]

65. He came all the way across the ocean.

You can't go half-way across a little ole country. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

67. Not in a flying tube, I ain't

:scared:

[VenusRising]

69. Bock! Bock!

[lost-in-nj]

56. Great Pictures!!!!

I am so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


you all look so happy





:hi:
lost




ps does that say Olive Garden on the door??????

[VenusRising]

59. No Olive Garden.

Johnny Rockets.

Glad you like the pictures.

:hi::hug:

[lost-in-nj]

61. Ummmm... Johnny Rockets

did they dance???

I just noticed your hubby wearing a dragon fly sweat shirt!!!


yeah!!!!


lost

[VenusRising]

63. No dancing.

It's a 50s style diner place.

The shirt is from volunteering at the Columbus Zoo's Insect Fair yesterday morning. I changed clothes; he didn't. :rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

74. oh I know what Johnnie Rockets is

the ones I have been in the
wait staff dance....
usually to a Donna Summers song....

I should have known it was JR's by the chrome...

ewwww bugs

(j/k)
:rofl: :rofl:

lost

[VenusRising]

77. Well, that would have been a sight to see!

No dancing to Donna Summer.

I think I did a litte dance while we were waiting for people to return from the bathrooms.

I'm weird like that, though. :P


It wasn't the bugs that were bad at the fair...it was the kids.

Did I mention I don't think I want kids? :rofl:

[Zodiak]

100. Yeah, one ittle girl thought she was Heracles

She grabbed our poor giant black centipede from Tanzania and tried to pry its little body into a straight line while it was curling up. You could almost hear the crunching noise.

The guy who raised that millipede from an egg looked positively ashen when it happened.

But the girl was cute....just brutal. A real-life Elmira.

[judaspriestess]

62. NICE

Thanks for posting

[VenusRising]

66. You're welcome.

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

80. Great pics!!!

looks like you had a great time.

Ain't billyskank and Joani just darlings?????

[VenusRising]

85. They really are wonderful!

I wish we wouLd have gotten to spend more time with them.

What a good excuse to take a trip, no?

:hi::hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

87. Oh definitely

and if you ever come to visit billyskank in the U.K. I make sure to come over for a visit as well

:hi: :hug:

[VenusRising]

88. Well, there are still plans on the Czech Republic.

I just don't know when exactly. I will definitely get over to visit you if we and when we get there.

[MissHoneychurch]

89. Please keep me informed

and maybe billyskank can come over from the U.K. when you are here :)

[VenusRising]

90. I definitely will!

I want to go over and see Heidi and CMW, too! :bounce:

[MissHoneychurch]

92. Yes, I want to meet them too

it is so embarrassing that we still haven't met :blush:

[VenusRising]

93. Nah.

It just gives you something to look forward to. ;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

84. Wonderful, thank you!

[VenusRising]

86. You're welcome!

:hi:

[Dystopian]

91. Nice~

Thank you for posting these awesome pictures!
Everyone looks wonderful...
I would love to meet a DUer just once...And you had an entire group...
Looks like a great time....

peace~

[VenusRising]

96. Definitely go to a meet up.

It's so nice to put faces and voices to screen names. It's quite fun!

:hi::hug:

[Sanity Claws]

97. What a handsome bunch!

It looks like you had loads of fun. :hi:

[lizziegrace]

99. Hi!!

:hi:

It's feast or famine with DUers. I'm in the feast-phase right now. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

101. How did I almost miss this?

So glad I scrolled down the first page in the Lounge to see it!

You guys all had a terrific time, I can tell!

Meetups are so much fun!

I feel so damn fortunate that I've met three of you in that final pic!

Some sweet day, I would love to meet the rest of you...

And I just love the idea of a national meetup!

:grouphug: :loveya: :grouphug:

[NC_Nurse]

102. Looks like a great time!

Thanks for sharing! :-)

[Guava Jelly]

103. Cool!

Great pictures..
Thank you for sharing them. :D