More fun with Benedict Street friends

Below is a picture of last Thursday night at San Remo's Itlian Restaurant. We decided we had enough of serving other people and it was time we went out to eat where WE could be served. It was fun, of course. And Jakob was teased by the waitress the whole time for going out with 11 girls at once. Jake teased her back with Rufus, his tooth. At one point the sassy waitress slapped him on the shoulder. Jakob has that influence on people I guess ;-)
Left to right are me, Jess, Shar (not a BSMP employee), Tori, Clara, Hannah, Gwen (not a BSMP employee), Katie, Carmen, Jakob, Karis, and Sam is taking the picture. Then, on Saturday night after work, we invaded Paula and Chuck's house for a surprise 66th birthday party for Paula. We had enourmous amounts of cake and ice cream which provided the sugar for a romping wild ruckus of the dictionary game and charades, followed by (something similar to) dancing.
The dictonary game was pretty wild. Vesicle means a scab on a turtle's leg or, alternately A popsicle that prints a bible verse on your tongue as you lick it? And Halcyon means A disease transmitted by daydreaming falcons? Pretty wild. I laughed until I ached.
The only bummer of the deal was the Chuck missed the whole thing because he is in Alaska on a fishing boat. Oh well. We will just have to do it again sometime.
This is Jakob, of the demon's team (mine) playing charades.

Jake teaching Sam the line dance from the wedding scene in the bull-riding movie 8 Seconds
Jake, Jessika, Sam and Katie having a great time making fools of themselves.
Olga (Carmen) and Sam
Katie

Paula, enacting "pecking"

Paula busting up while enacting something
Katie enacting heaven only knows what for the Angels team
Karis, who should be on the Olympic Charades Team, enacting something with her typical energy
Jakob doing his really really weird octopus dinosaur dance
66 candles light up the room. Actually, 68. Two to spare, just for bonus points.
Eating. The most important skill for a Benedict Street employee.
Jess choosing a word for charades Good times. Good times. It was funny, as the night went on, we each made our confessions to Paula for the bad things we did at work that day. And we were pretty roudy that day...and we took longer to close down because of it. Tori told a lady we were out of Meunster cheese just because she was too lazy to go and cut some especcialy for her. Jake was mouthy to another impatient customer and told him tartly "I don't know; I'm not the chef!" Carmen tackled Karis to the floor trying to untie her apron strings. And I stood up and pulled Carmen's apron string out of my pocket. Paula chided us and wondered aloud if how many customers we lost that day. But there was a big smile on her face.

Is it any wonder why I love Benedict Street Marketplace?