May 4, 2002 Birthday Celebration
 Let's play pin the tail on the donkey! Oh yeah, right, I don't think so, scoffs Dustin. |
Considering that there were six
people celebrating their birthdays within 2 weeks of each other, they
decided to just pool those celebrations for a birthday bash. Here is the first group to get to Chi's place (not cheesecake), a rather hungry bunch exemplified by Tuan and Olivia. |
 Come one come all. |
Tuan guards the table of food,
but Azeem (far background) managed to sneak a few wings on his plate. Just kidding. Vegetarian Azeem waited for his shrimp kebobs. |
 Nick keeps sun-drowsy Thanh awake. |
It was a perfect day for a barbeque, actually being "too" sunny at times. Nick takes a break from the grill and joins Thanh for a chat. |
 Hmm, so Americans like barbeque sauce? |
Observing the strangeness of American barbeque are Ryoko and Megumi. Megumi was visiting Ryoko from Indiana that weekend. |
 Diego was more focused at Nick by the barbeque. |
After several hours, the rest arrived at the happening scene of yummy smells, laughter, talk, and balloons strung around the roof of the house. |
 Ron with his internal dance club. |
Ron was the most chipper of the group, bringing his CD player in case there was no boom box. It was noisy enough as it was; the backyard was alive with voices. |
 Steve explains the intricacies of eating pork chops to Chi. |
It turned out beneficial for the party not to have enough seats because it forced everyone to mingle. There were many activities offered that day -- chasing a little kid, playing Vietnamese hackey sack, looking for earthworms, watching muy thai, and the list continues. |
 Craigy and me. |
Craig and I enjoyed the afternoon barbeque then had to leave to meet other friends for a Q101 Cinco de Mayo (a day early) block party. There we heard Mest and 2 Skinny Jay's. The others tried to see Spiderman and had a get-together at Dustin's apartment. |
