The Crooked and the Straight

This weekend was a reunion of sorts for me and several of my friends from high school. We were celebrating our friend Steve's impending marriage (and therefore the loss of his cherished bachelorhood). Rather than go in for any standard kind of bachelor party, Nate organized a "bachelor weekend" around the four-game baseball series between the Mariners and our beloved Indians. Thus a one-day event ballooned into four days of bumming around downtown Seattle, punctuated by a few hours of baseball (and then a few hours of drinking).

I'm happy to say that the Indians took the Mariners in the series, three games to one. Everyone is now safely on their way home (except for Nate who is wathing Family Guy while checking his email before his flight in four hours). No serious injuries were sustained, and the only casualty was the loss of Roger's mobile phone (which he left at Safeco field and which was never recovered).

Anyhow... many pictures were taken. Nate and I have already compiled and edited our share, although the rest of the Gang will have more pictures to contribute in the short term. But for now I am tired, so you'll have to be content with the photos we've got:

Steve's bachelor party weekend

[Update: I should give credit where it is due, and mention that many of the photos this weekend weren't taken by me. Nate contributed quite a few (and almost all of the close-ups), and some came from Dave and from Steve.]