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Fruit Salad This is how much fruit salad I made for the party. |
Fruit Salad and Scale Rosemary always makes a good size scale. |
Fruit Salad, Close-Up Ingredients: apples (three varieties), Pineapple, Kiwi Fruit, Grapes, Star Fruit, Bananas, Mandarin Oranges, Frozen Blueberry/Raspberry/Blackberry Mix, Passionfruit Juice, Orange Juice, Craisins |
Fruit Salad, With Bananas Yeah, I forgot to put them in last shot, silly me. |
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Fruit Salad and Hand It was sticky. Oh, and for the record, I was *not* bathed in this container as a child. |
Cakes Not my bailiwick. |
Kirby's Tie Yessir, it was red! |
Early Drinks Rob and Brijeet were in charge of the booze. |
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Fixing the Coffee Maker It managed to break on the way from the office, so Tim Isgro and Dan Wright fixed it. |
Platypus Door Knocker A fixture on Klaus' house, I figured it needed a shot. |
Yi and the Salad She was going to get the first serving... |
Hungry Eric ...and then Eric ate it all. Oh well. |
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Christmas Carols Dave, as our Official Musician, always gets put on piano duty. |
Early Mingling Not too many guests yet, but at least Alek and Taras were already working. |
Tik The first person to actually start taking food. |
The Guest of Honor Marilyn arrived a bit late, after having had dinner with Klaus. |
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Peter and Sarah It's nice to find out your workers are married, eh? |
Paul Here's an unexpected guest! Back from California, just to visit Marilyn... |
Mingling in Earnest Everybody's divided up into their groups. |
Marilyn She looks really happy to be there, don't you think? |
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Supervillain Tim He just needs a mask. |
Fatemeh and Emad The Persian contingent, living it up. |
Klaus Paul wanted me to get a close-up of Klaus' face, for an "unofficial group member" page he has back home. |
Klaus, II The first shot was better, but both were interesting. |
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More Drinks Brijeet and Rob continue to do their job well. |
No Candid Shots Somebody was tipping everyone off. Hmmph. |
Back to Candid Okay, so I wasn't thwarted for long. |
Marilyn's Throne Setting up to do the presentations. |
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Starting the Speeches Klaus starts things off with a fairly short speech. |
Marilyn-Watching Most of the people here are Marilyn's family; in front is Katie, our office assistant, and laughing in the back is Jo, our other secretary-type. |
Marilyn-Watching, II Klaus is giving a good speech, as evidenced by the smiles on everyone's faces. |
Klaus' Speech Continues The worry on his face is legit. He's gonna miss her most of all of us. |
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Singing Grand-Daughter Marilyn's Grand-Daughter had a song about to sing about Marilyn, with her boyfriend on guitar. It was sweet. |
Listening to the Song Marilyn's Family listens on. |
Photo-Mosaic of Klaus Our gift to Marilyn: a photo-mosaic of her beloved boss! |
Klaus' Mosaic It's made up of smaller pictures, mostly taken in Marilyn's office by me or my predecessors. |
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Marilyn's Response It's not quite horror... *grin* |
Marilyn's Mosaic Luckily, a photo-mosaic was also made of her. And this one was framed! |
Dualling Mosaics Showing them off together. |
Presenting to Marilyn She likes it! Hooray! |
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Kirby's DVD Kirby presents the DVD of video testimonials to Marilyn here. No, I don't have a copy of it... though I am in it. |
Official Group Present It's a box! I wonder if it has anything in it? |
Official Group Present, II Yup: Chocolate! (And in that was gift certificates for Bed, Bath & Beyond). |
Great Grand-Daughter I don't know her name, but she was cute. And photogenic. |
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Rehearsal Getting ready for the song-and-dance number from the Physical Revue. |
Laughing with Family I think they just got copies of the skit's script. |
Marilyn and Klaus Aah, the symbolic leaning on Marilyn. |
Watching the Skit It's not often you see Klaus sitting on the floor. |
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The Skit Begins Barry and Rosemary sing! |
Rosemary the Cabaret Singer I should have guessed there was a purpose for that dress. |
Laughing at the Skit Genuine amusement is fun to get on film. Or CompactFlash cards. Whatever. |
More Skit Folk You thought it was just Rosemary and Barry? |
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Flag Hats Each of these hats had a different flag on it. I think that at some point they were even matched to the appropriate ethnicities... |
Flag Hats, II ...but, given Jim's hat, that time wasn't tonight. |
Uncle Sam FOUR MORE YEARS! No, wait, scratch that... FOUR LESS! |
Evil Rosemary Looking scary for the encore! |
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Tyler and Tim One scary hearts-playing duo. |
Marilyn Mosaic A final shot of the mosaics seemed in order. |
Klaus Mosaic This way, you can zoom in and see shots of me from years ago! |
One Final, Eternal Talk Klaus' Mosaic can talk with Marilyn's Mosaic for eternity. Aww... |
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