We Came To Party
A whirlwind weekend! Team Skelton would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came out to the big party this last Friday at Solera. We had a great time and we hope you did too. The whole evening is almost one insane blur of activity. I remember some family showing up early for some photographs and then *bang* just like that it was three in the morning. Somewhere in between, lots of people showed up and there was much fun. I know I didn’t get to eat anything the whole night except for one bit of cake that the wife ceremoniously fed to me. Luckily, kind people made sure I was always with beverage. Unfortunately, I remembered to take only a handful of pictures (see above). Team Skelton became separated early in the evening and were not able to come together again until much, much, later in the evening. Special thanks goes out to the University of Minnesota for honoring J.W. with “Dissertation of the Year”, and for flying him up from Chiapas Mexico on the date of our party.
Saturday morning, downtown, at the Marriott. I woke up surprisingly early with an insatiable hunger. Slightly dented from Friday evenings activities, I arose and went to the bathroom to fetch some water. I reached for a glass and filled it. Drained it. Then realized in horror that I had just drank my wife’s contact lenses. Gulp! I clearly forgot the late night exchange where she mentioned something about how she hadn’t brought her lens case and was placing them in a glass instead. Damn.
After only a few hours sleep I was out the hotel door and on my way back home to fetch some new lenses. But first things first. I was starving. I pulled into the wonderful mexican restaurant just near our house and ordered two orders of huevos rancheros. It began to rain hard outside. I was the only one in the restaurant. I sat there for over an hour shoveling eggs and tortillas and beans and coffee into my system.
Refueled and with fresh new contacts, we made our way over to my mother’s house for a very nice post party with all our families in attendance. Huge thanks again to everyone who helped make the Saturday affair a very memorable one. Team Skelton feels very loved. Thanks to all!!
More photos were taken by people who know what they’re doing with a camera and when I get those I’ll share them.