Banquets & Birthdays

May 2nd: ΑΓΩ Banquet & Serendipity's birthday

I must say I was quite impressed for my first ever attendance at an ΑΓΩ banquet. The things that made it great were, first and foremost, having the Goon winner and best date ever, Lego. Second, a car full of my favorite people and a table where the conversation and laughs never ceased. All the ladies were simply stunning and the men were downright ballers. Remo, Quill, Puck & Shox all gave their graduate speeches which led us to an array of emotions from absolute hysterics to near tears (Shox will you just cry already?!). Speaking of Shox, literally the man of the hour 4 hours, this man put together a stand up evening at The Butcher Shop pouring in every last bit he could manage. The ΑΓΩ glass that was the gift is easily going to become my favorite glass to quench my thirst from and the video was entertaining, heartfelt and well done. I would like to mention that I made my way into the video via the wall of girls numbers. Look to the right of Shade's head when he is sending his love to a graduate and it sure does say Italia ♥ ΑΓΩ. It was truly a fantastic experience and for that I must personally thank Lego for asking me to be his date.

While we were eating bloody meat and garlic mashed potatoes, there was a party going on at the beach. A special birthday bonfire for our beloved Serendipity. You are beautiful and I hope that the party was nothing short of a rager. Happy Birthday Serendipity!

May 3rd: ΑΔΧ Banquet

After the long drive to the San Marcos Lake Resort and the immense amount of photographs taken (yes, it's true, I did indeed have one of those ghetto gamble cameras. The disposable types where you just have to hope the pic turns out great), we settled inside for dinner. Again with the gorgeous women, handsome men and great table company, Jaguar hooked us up with a great evening. The senior send off was changed up some this semester from a girl speaking about the graduate to the active graduates giving speeches of their own. Clearly, Monaco and myself were thrilled with Tropicana's speech as she gave a direct and extremely accurate shout out to the Rho Rydahz as the funniest people she has ever met. I could not agree more. The water works were turned on throughout the room as memories from as far back as Fall 2004 were mentioned and it can be said the ΑΔΧ will never be the same after the mark these women have left on this place. To Chicago, Eclipse, Mustang, Luxor, Venetian, Tropicana, Flamingo and Kix: Good luck and may the active body look to your future lives and be inspired by God's blessings. Best parts of the evening were Versace and Remo as Miss Piggy and Kermit (way to rock the theme), mother/daughter duos and, surprisingly, pl*dge entertainment. The fact that the servers had to dodge the pl*dges while serving us desert and that kiss had full face makeup was da bomb! I can truthfully say our pl*dges are WAY more entertaining than ΑΓΩ pl*dges.

Today: Ferrari's Birthday

This girl. You rock my world and will take ΑΔΧ by storm as president. Happy Birthday and keep on keeping on. Love you!

That was quite possibly the longest entry I've written for this blog.
Italia 92D

A Great Gatsby Affair

Well done, Tropi. It was a night well worth remembering.

Everyone was looking fabulous in their 20's garb, I had a few personal favorites. Best dressed ΑΔΧ girl goes to Madagascar (loved the wig), Versace (loved the feather), and one of our Alumni, Kiwi (loved the wig and feather!). For the boys, definitely our sweetheart Blitz, Shox, and Marmot (those were some hot shoes!). After the initial mingling and rampant photo taking we cozied ourselves up to the dinner table. My very own pledge sis caused the waitress to drop like four plates of food so my dinner was slightly delayed but when I finally got that steak, I indulged. It was almost as rare as having good pl*dge entertainment, I'm talking bloody! Nonetheless fantastic, as were those delightful little chocolates that didn't make it past the 1st course.

We added some new names to the ΑΔΧ hall of fame last night. Blitz walked away with ΑΔΧ sweetheart, tswana was our daisy, LV did the school thing and was awarded the scholarship honor, Venetian became the newest Pearl of ΑΔΧ, and queen of all social faux pas' for the semester, our one and only Kix, ball bustin' since fall 2007. Kix followed up with a speech and then we moved on to pl*dge entertainment. I came to banquet optimistic but I was promptly let down. The ideas were all there but the execution was flawed. If by the grace of God, you pl*dges become active you can attempt to redeem yourselves at retreat. My moment of glory came with big sis paddles. Holla Back! The pl*dges did an excellent job on those. Props to luganda, that skateboard was sick!

The evening was top notch. I sat at a table with some of the most fabulous people of this century, easily. Nothing beats coming together for some good pickin's and great company.

Looking forward to tonight, you know you want my white elephant gift!
Italia 92D

Bringing Flappers Back Since....well 1925!

For once the usuage of "since 1925" is historically accurate.

Hopefully, all you ΑΓΩ banquet attendees have recovered from the nights activities and are ready for dress fringe, finger waves and the Charlston. I say we just roll over the blackout count to today, get you blow dryers, straighteners and curling irons in the ready position. I imagine the combined count for both houses will accend to double digits and that's what I like to see. So, I'm pretty sure I heard something about goldfish center pieces and incredibly expensive chocolate favors. Classy.

I look forward to 3 things: my steak dinner, my big sis paddle, and to pl*dge entertainment. That last one is sort of a crapshoot though. Those girls have had a whole semester to figure out what we like and what we don't like. Mostly they understand what we don't like. I like to be optimistic though. Just know that tonight, potentially, will have a drastic affect on this weekend. Awesome, I will see all you sexy ΑΔΧ ladies tonight with your largely attractive dates. There will be photo opportunities made available the minute my hot blonde date and I enter the room so get your cameras ready.

Hopping in her DeLorean and cruising back to the 20's
Italia 92D