This evening EQ & I spent the evening with Archie and Comic Guy. It was a joint birthday celebration, so EQ and I showed up with birthday goodies!
An 11 year old Cabernet Merlot.
A birthday bag of odd gifts for the birthday boy: Some tattoos (I wonder where they ended up!), a couple of random dollar store games and two bottles of the Walter caesar mix (mild & spicy). What can I say, he and I are huge caesar fans and I when I saw the mix, I couldn't resist picking him up a couple of bottles of try it out! (Amusingly, when we arrived he made us caesars....mixed with the new Walter caesar mix. I had a fit of giggles when I realized!)
Specialty chocolates all the way from New York.
AND a bunch of helium balloons.
And this is where today's moment was born.
On the way over to Archie & Comic Guy's house, EQ commented that it would be fun to inhale the helium later on in the evening. I teasingly reprimanded him - these weren't his balloons, they were for the birthday boy! Besides, wasn't that something that kids do?
Fast forward to post dinner. We are all sitting around enjoying our conversation and Archie walks over to two pairs of scissors: one for me and one for EQ. I look at him quizzically. What on earth? With a devilish smile, Archie explains that we're going to inhale the helium.
As you can imagine, I rolled my eyes as EQ burst into laughter. After being asked "when did you get old"?, we all had a balloon in hand ready to inhale, sing and repeat around the room.
I can't lie. It was funny. It was hilarious in fact. EQ even caught some of it on video.
So much for being mature, but it sure did feel good to play along.
SHAZAM!
Moments enjoying your friends and being silly.
Moments understanding you don't always have to be proper.
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