Paddle Party

Dan’s paddle party was a huge success. I ended up only bringing cheese and crackers, and that was gone within an hour- so go me. We started out at a local bar- “Buddys”. See the whole point of the party was to present Dan and Chad with paddles, well the paddles didn’t arrive until like 11:30 or Midnight, they were on there way from Indiana (Josh, the guy that made the paddles, was doing a work-up there, and was on his way back into town that night, and basically came straight to the party). We pretty much dominated the outside of the bar, which was fun. Everyone got a little loud, slightly crazy, and Chad got sick. But never the less, it was a good start to the party.
The paddles arrived and we headed back to the house. They started the ceremony with Dan. Now I always knew my boyfriend was freakin’ awesome, I didn’t need anyone to tell me that, but you should have seen the love Dan got from these guys. Dan is a total badass and apparently, someone that all the “new-guys” need to look up to, and strive to become. The stories and praises he received were awesome; of course, Dan will never brag about that, and is completely humble (which tends to aggravate me). But these guys really look up to Dan, and they’re all really close, and truly an awesome bunch of guys. They then got to Chad’s as well, and everyone really looks up to him too.
It was an all-together successful night, and I was so proud of MY boyfriend (which really isn’t anything new) and was really happy to be a part of that. I want to get some better pictures up, but my computer is just not working with me. The picture on the top, to the left, is all of the radio recon guys that were there, that was about 3/4 of the people there. the picture in the middle to the right is of Dan, Dan, Chad and Mike. the the one on the bottom left is of Stretch, me and Dan. I promise ill have more up soon.