You're invited: Dgrin's 5-Year Birthday

Ann McRae

I am at Hotel Zico with Christina and just saw 4 very famous grinners! barb

ann

Nikolai

Ann McRae wrote:

I am at Hotel Zico with Christina and just saw 4 very famous grinners! barb

ann

Yay, welcome to the Land Of No Caribu and no unwanted snow!

BradfordBenn

Just finished packing. Leave for the airport in about 6 hours or so.... Dang. I gotta sleep.

Phyxius

It was nice to see Travis, Schmoo, Ivar, and Nick today. They were working but were able to stop for a moment to say "hi".

Ann, Debbie and I had a nice drive through Napa and Sonoma up to Santa Rosa today. I LOOOOVE the windy "hill" roads, they're much more fun than stop and go traffic.

As another first today was Thai food! We met up with April and went to Thai Pepper in Sunnyvale.

I hear we may meet up with some more dgrinners tomorrow on the way south. If you see our motley crew be sure to say "hi"! Otherwise we'll see you at the party!

Andy

Phyxius wrote:

It was nice to see Travis, Schmoo, Ivar, and Nick today.

I'm chopped liver? :cry

Phyxius

Andy wrote:

I'm chopped liver? :cry

:oogleI saw you Tuesday...Wednesday...what day is today? :uhoh You gave me the warmest welcome of everyone:sweet, I just skipped a day. We did not make it up to Hamilton that day we went Moody Rd, Page Mill Rd, Alpine Rd. to Skyline Rd. down to Big Basin. It was a nice drive but took too long to get us over to Hamilton. Did you guys make it out there or have you been working hard?

I'm pretty sure we'll see you tonight, I'll buy you a drink to make up for it.

BradfordBenn

Drat! Not going to make it
Travel snafus reared their ugly head so we (BradfordBenn & GentlyMad) are not going to make it to the party

Drat.

Travel safe and have fun

-=Brad

BradfordBenn

Andy wrote:

I'm chopped liver? :cry

Given the amount of vegans in the group, maybe it would be hummus instead?

Digital Illusions

Well i hate to say it but i am going to have to cancel at the last minuite. due to an unexpected event i am not going to get to drive to the bay area on time so i will have to ditch this year. i hope all goes well and everyone gets home safely when it is over. have fun down there!

Quitarita

will anyone be there early?
hi guys!

looking forward to meeting you guys!

will anyone be there early? it turns out that i have a performance in monterey tonight (i'm a singer too) and will have to miss the party. but i was hoping to stop by and at least say 'hi' to folks.

thanks and congrats on 5 years!

Cygnus Studios

We will coming a tad early Will have camera ready....

Baldy

Andy wrote:

I'm chopped liver? :cry

Chopped lentils.

Dee

We had a great time at the dgrin party! Thank you SmugMug for throwing the party!

Got to meet some new people, and the after party trip to SmugMug headquarters to view some super large photos was very interesting! I got to see the room where the San Francisco Skyline pano taken from Treasure Island is going! It should be amazing when it's all done.

Richard

So where are the pics? Or are you guys still partying?

Cygnus Studios

We had a great time at the party. It was great to put some faces to the many names. Baldy was an incredible host and took a few of us back to headquarters to show off the goodies. The lightbox was incredible.
For those who have not seen a metallic print, take my advice and order one. The colors jump off of the print.
A big thanks to the Smugmug staff for putting this on. I am already looking forward to the 10th anniversary party.

Sunnyvalejohn

Thanks for putting a great event together! Likewise it was great meeting folks face to face! Cheers, John

Nikolai

It was great seeing y'all!
Here are the "official portraits", originals enabled
http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/6769186_NFhdD
Sorry for the quality, it wasn't the most spacious accomodations..

CatOne

Good seeing everybody!

Phyxius

Oops double post...

I moved the pictures to this thread - http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=113371&page=3
-Christina

gluwater

Not sure who that grizzly looking guy is some of those photos but I think he has an identity complex. Great seeing everybody!! From now on we have to find a dive bar at each shootout we go on stud.

Ann McRae

gluwater wrote:

Not sure who that grizzly looking guy is some of those photos but I think he has an identity complex. Great seeing everybody!! From now on we have to find a dive bar at each shootout we go on stud.

Are you married

Ann McRae

Flight landed in Edmonton at 11:22p.m. yesterday, got through customs better than I got through airport security yesterday. Cabbed it home since the dh travels today and I took pity on him. Had about 5 hrs of sort of sleep.

My hamstrings are still griping about the hike up from Kirby Cove. Had an inch of ice to scrape off my van windshield this a.m. Overall, I still really wish I were in California, or at least with all of you!

Thanks for hosting this party, Dgrin and Smugmug lust. Wish it would have gone on longer - I know there were many folks at the party that I didn't talk to and should have! (Dee, you in particular!). Ann-fail!

Cannot wait for the next opportunity to be with all of you (or small numbers at a time!) barb

ann

Nikolai

Ann McRae wrote:

Flight landed in Edmonton at 11:22p.m. yesterday, got through customs better than I got through airport security yesterday. Cabbed it home since the dh travels today and I took pity on him. Had about 5 hrs of sort of sleep.

My hamstrings are still griping about the hike up from Kirby Cove. Had an inch of ice to scrape off my van windshield this a.m. Overall, I still really wish I were in California, or at least with all of you!

Thanks for hosting this party, Dgrin and Smugmug lust. Wish it would have gone on longer - I know there were many folks at the party that I didn't talk to and should have! (Dee, you in particular!). Ann-fail!

Cannot wait for the next opportunity to be with all of you (or small numbers at a time!) barb

ann

Great to hear you're back safely! Sorry about the hike, if it's any consollation I'm a tad sore myself :-) But it was fun, and I would gladly do it again.:-)

ziggy53

Nikolai wrote:

It was great seeing y'all!
Here are the "official portraits", originals enabled
http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/6769186_NFhdD
Sorry for the quality, it wasn't the most spacious accomodations..

Looks like a pretty mean party. Did you guys have to break Dan's leg?

Everybody else have a good time?

Zanotti

Nikolai wrote:

It was great seeing y'all!
Here are the "official portraits", originals enabled
http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/6769186_NFhdD
Sorry for the quality, it wasn't the most spacious accomodations..

Nik:

I think the pictures are wonderful!

I know you are a perfectionist, but these are wonderful.
As someone who was unable to attend, I felt I was there – not just in person, but it spirit. The expressions and poses you encouraged are tremendous. I enjoyed all them immensely.

Your daughter is beautiful, growing up before our eyes. And your participation is above and beyond anything anyone could ask. I am vicariously living through the shots and am enjoying every minute.


Z



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Nikolai

Zanotti wrote:

Nik:

I think the pictures are wonderful!

I know you are a perfectionist, but these are wonderful.
As someone who was unable to attend, I felt I was there – not just in person, but it spirit. The expressions and poses you encouraged are tremendous. I enjoyed all them immensely.

Your daughter is beautiful, growing up before our eyes. And your participation is above and beyond anything anyone could ask. I am vicariously living through the shots and am enjoying every minute.


Z



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Thank you, I'm truly touched!

Ann McRae

Nikolai wrote:

Great to hear you're back safely! Sorry about the hike, if it's any consollation I'm a tad sore myself :-) But it was fun, and I would gladly do it again.:-)

Nik

My lousy physical condition isn't your fault. Thanks for being sherpa on the way up that hill! The really encouraging thing is I had my backpack on all weekend and my shoulders are fine - not even the tiniest bit sore! So I think that means I can start working on other things!

And you are right, I would gladly do that hike again too.

Thanks for the portraits. I haven't showed the dh yet (he is travelling now) but I think he will like them all!

ann

Nikolai

Ann McRae wrote:

Nik

My lousy physical condition isn't your fault. Thanks for being sherpa on the way up that hill! The really encouraging thing is I had my backpack on all weekend and my shoulders are fine - not even the tiniest bit sore! So I think that means I can start working on other things!

And you are right, I would gladly do that hike again too.

Thanks for the portraits. I haven't showed the dh yet (he is travelling now) but I think he will like them all!

ann

My pleasure - in more aspect than one:-)

schmoo

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for this! Nik, your photos look great and I know that we all really appreciate you taking the time to do the photo booth for us. I hope everyone had a fantastic evening/weekend.... I know I did!

Markjay

I have been a member since March of 04... so I missed your "beginning" by a few months.

I've created a few storms, asked a lot of questions...
and got a lot of answers and, almost always the answers came in a very timely manner.

I owe most if not all of my customization of my site to the people here in Dgrin and, a few magical sorcerers also ;-)

Last but not least: we have to connect the dots here........

Dgrin = Smugmug

Without Smugmug there would be no Dgrin and, without Dgrin Smugmug would not be where it is today.... IMHO. The feedback, from the users, the ideas shared by Smugmug with Dgrinners, it all comes together.

Have a great day today!
Markjay