A Room With a View

1) With Raymond
2) With Marcello
3) With Kelly
4) With Jorge, Amy, Mary, and Kirt (and Legally Blonde on the TV)
5) With Paul (and in the background you can see Jose. And even though he’s probably not, it looks like he’s picking his nose which really makes me laugh).

I’ve known David for a couple years now.  He’s always a lot of fun. 
We never know what David is going to say or do.  At the party, he got very into character…

1) David undid the braids on Raymond’s Dutch Dorothy wig…and found some pearls somewhere.

2) Our friend Paul (who recently moved to Palm Springs) gets frisky with David.

3) David and Jim–Girls Gone Wild

4) Seven months later?

–check out David’s business at boyrio.com

1)  Punked out Michael with Walter and Curls

2) Michael (without wig and still blonde) and Raymond

3) Michael with wig combo and Dame Edna glasses

And here is a candid from the party of guests enjoying themselves…

  For some reason some of the pics I downloaded from John turn out really small, while others (like Ed’s) are really big.  Might end up editing this post later.

I finally have some pics from the party courtesy of my friend John.  I’m going to do posts over several days.
Today, you get the guest of honor…Raymond.
He got a goddess wig and wrapped himself in the Dutch flag.  At a party where the guests bar hopped around town in a stretched Hummer, he won the nickname “Beer Goggles”–notice what he has in his hand.  The blonde in the background also happens to be Raymond’s ex-Jim.
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But what a great party!

My friend Raymond is moving back to Holland.  He has lived in the US for a number of years on work visas.  But after he went home for Christmas, he decided it was time to move back.

His roommate Ed came up with the idea for a blonde party, where everyone has to come as a blonde.  Any excuse for a wig, I suppose.  I titled it Blonde Voyage.  House and backyard were decorated with pink, black, and orange balloons, curlers, combs, and brushes, dolls and pregnancy tests.

I was worried that a lot of people were going to show up without being a blonde, but everyone participated.  And the variety of wigs were incredible. I sill have to get the pictures developed and scanned onto a disk–so stay tuned!