Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Friday, November 09, 2007
The Gang Hits Phoenix For A Weekend
Yes I do realize that I haven't posted in a while which in my case is indicative of the fact that I either have too much going on in my life to take the time to post, or that I'm in a self-imposed rehab from society. In this case it was a combination of the two.
I was pleasantly surprised the other weekend when my entire gang of friends showed up in Phoenix for the weekend. Bernard from San Francisco, Tony & Justin (DJ) from San Diego, Philip from Los Angeles and Jamie from Toronto. For one short weekend, they all converged upon Phoenix to hang out and party it up. It was almost one month to the day from our cruise that we all last saw each other.
Prior to our cruise I had mentioned to Philip about the Trade Superheroes party on November 10th, and asked him to come out. I also mentioned to the other guys, but everyone apologized saying they couldn't make it for one reason or another so I thought that only Philip and Jamie were the only ones coming into town for the weekend. Justin, Antonio and I picked Philip up at the airport and then headed over to Jerry's to pick him up and head to dinner. Once we said our hello's we walked inside and were startled by Bernard, Tony and DJ jumping out from behind the couch. Apparently it was all planned out on the cruise and all the boys managed to keep it a surprise from both Justin and I. I was really happy to see everyone because I was just texting with Bernard earlier in the day saying how I wished he was here for the weekend. He totally hammed it up and said "Me too, take lot's of pictures" I was in complete shock, it was a really great surprise.
Jerry & Bernard
Tony & Dallas Justin (DJ)
Justin, Rich & Antonio
Philip & Jamie
The Gang hanging out chatting after a few drinks
Another one of the Gang hanging out on Friday night
We gathered the group together and headed over to Cibo's on 5th Ave and Fillmore for a bit to eat before Jamie's flight arrived. Cibo's is a quint, trendy, Pizzeria located inside one of the early historic homes in the Roosevelt district and it offers some of the best pizza in the valley. We enjoyed our pizza, a few bottles of wine and then agreed to meet up over at Amsterdam after picking up Jamie from the airport.
Around Midnight we reconvened for a few drinks at Amsterdam. It was actually pretty crowded for a Friday night and we ran into Travis, Nester and a few other friends. It was a beautiful evening out and great to have the gang together again in Phoenix of all places. This was the very first time we've all been together here in Phoenix. We hung out for a few cocktails and then decided to move the party and the gang back over to our house for the rest of the evening. It was a fun night, and the beginning of a a really long weekend to come. Cheers!
