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Swedish Goodbye Party

On Sunday, January 19th, we began a goodbye party for Ylva and Annica. It continued until Thursday morning, when Annica left. There were brief interruptions for sleep and work. Very brief.

I miss my Swedes, damn it!

* I do also miss a Canadian, an Aussie, and even an American, but I *really* miss my Swedes.

But, on a happy note, I got to see all of the above mentioned people again. See the Sweden etc. page for our Room K reunion in southern France, and other wanderings:

Sweden (etc.)

Ylva's goodbye photos in no particular order...

Ylva's goodbye party (Photos: Ylva)

Ylva's goodbye party (Photos: Ylva)

Elin, Alissa, Stu, and Ylva (Photos: Ylva)

Night 2

The Quiz Night that wasn't

It being Monday, we all went out for Ylva & Annica's last Quiz Night, but it was cancelled. Naturally we didn't just go home or anything...

Gerrod & Annica: cute couple

Nope, we went back to the Opium.

Alissa to Elin: "Hibs or Hearts?"

Ylva & Annica's Goodbye Party!

A five-day extravaganza of extended goodbyes, Sunday January 13th through Thursday, Jan 17th. In this time, Stu got aproximately six hours total sleep.

Night 1

Starting the night with a game (Photo:Ylva)

And what better way to start the first night of a five day goodbye party for Ylva and Annica than to play drinking games? Which of course leads to this...

Stu, meet GlitterBug!

Alissa puts makeup on Stu

Stu in Makeup! (Photo: Ylva)

Who looks better in makeup, Stu or Alissa? Either way I answer that, Alissa'll kill me, because she did his makeup job, too. Stu actually went out like this, glitter on the eyes, an all.

At the Opium (Photo:Ylva)

Having prepared Stu for the evening, we went to Opium. We also went again on the second night of the party.

At the Ark (Photo:Ylva)

We went to the Ark after Opium closed. From Left: Me, Gerrod, Annica, Charles, Shane, Alissa, Jeremy, Stu, the back of Melissa's head.

Dancing to Vanilla Ice (Photo:Ylva)

We are so drunk at this point that we are actually dancing to Vanilla Ice! If you ever meet Gerrod (the Irish guy to Annica's right), bug him heavily about it! Yes, I am there, too. I'm sorry. It will never happen again, I promise! As for Stu, he was *way* to enthusiastic. Maybe it had something to do with the makeup...

Dancing at the Ark

Elin and Ylva (Photo:Ylva)

Elin made it from Sweden in time to be here for the party. This made people happy and so she got many hugs. :)

Day/Night 3

The Lepechauns leave

Having partied all they possibly could, Gerrod and Shane, our two resident leprechauns, made their exit. Reuben and Georgie were just there to make sure...

Dinner at Viva Mexico

For Ylva's actual last night, we had a "quiet" night, lead off with an excellent dinner at Viva Mexico on Cockburn, where we'd tried to go for my birthday dinner.

Ylva's last Cave Night

We retired to the Cave, and Alissa volunteered to keep Stu's spot on the pool table warm.

This page brought to you by Opium and The Ark, Smirnoff Vodka, and GlitterBug!