Lets party!!

We were invited to a surprise birthday party this past Saturday.  A friend of ours is turning 60 and his wife wanted to have a big "60's  Theme" celebration for him.  Everyone needed to arrive by 6:30 pm in some sort of attire appropriate to the theme.  Well, we didn't have time to get any costumes done so we decided that we would tell everyone that we were confused and thought it was an "Act like you are 60" themed event.  We would tell everyone about our latest "procedure", talk about our newest ache and basically laugh off the fact we didn't have a 60's costume.  We caught a cab to the hotel where the event was taking place and made our way to the front desk across of an extremely empty lobby.  We inquired about the Woodburn party to which we received nothing but blank stares and the repeated phrase "Mei you" (which means "We have no party by that name).  We then tried the equally empty restaurant and had 4 waiters and a manager try to get us a table until we finally walked away wondering where they could be.  We decided to wait near the lobby doors looking for someone we knew to come in but being very careful not to be seen by the birthday boy should he be escorted into the hotel.  After 10 minutes of not a soul crossing the threshold, we decided to call Regan who was at home and asked him to look up the e-mail invitation and tell us where the party was being held.  "Dad, it is at the Parkyard Hotel." "Yes, I know that. We are there".  "It starts at 6:30pm"  "Regan, we know that - it is now 7:15. What else does it say?"  "Dad, the party is on FEBRUARY 26th - you guys are such idiots! CLICK.

And so we were.  After laughing about our situation we decided to make the best of it and got back in a taxi, headed to a local restaurant, split a salad and steak then had a massage and closed out the night with a couple margaritas at the new Mexican place.  All in all it was a very good night.  (You know, maybe Cynthia knew all along the party was in February.  I bet she just wanted a night out!)