happy birthday...

Saturday night brought one of my best friend's 30th birthday. We had a surprise party for him and boy was he surprised!! It was good to have a lot of our friends together; the night was filled with some interesting conversations...

One of our friends Jay, is in the Marines Corps., and all of the armed forces supposedly have a 'Challenge Coin'. When a challenge coin is thrown down, whoever is in the armed forces and doesn't have their coin with them has to buy a round of drinks. Well Jay has been carrying his coin for 10 years in his wallet faithfully, and the one night that he ventured out without the coin, somebody 'threw down' on him and he had to buy the drinks...See image below for the challenge coin.

Our friends Al and Mel, spent the better part of the night trying to figure out if they wanted to celebrate the anniversary of their first date or 'getting togetherness' on November 21 or December 12. Jury's still out, I'll keep you posted.

And a big thanks to Big Papi, David Ortiz of the Red Sox for showing up for dinner. He wore some interesting head gear, but it was fun to have him. He didn't say much; kind of just nodded all night. I'm sure he's got a stiff neck today.

Happy 30th birthday Chuck. You old man!!!