Fifty years ago tonight...

[Armybrat]

... I & four of my good friends drove out to Windy Point on Lake Travis for my bachelor "party". For entertainment & refreshment we had 4 cases of beer, one deck of cards, a can of beans, a Coleman lantern, and a single blanket.

Played cards & drank beer until the lantern ran out of fuel around 2AM. Sometime during the evening we shared the can of cold beans. I got the single blanket & wrapped up in it to try to sleep.

Woke up around 5AM with my shoulder stinging like crazy, as I had rolled down an incline into a patch of prickly pear cactus. Luckily only three or four needles needed to be removed, but it was something of an ordeal because the pre-med friend was more inebriated than I was.

Never got back to sleep, but watching the sun rise over the Lake was quite beautiful, even with a throbbing hangover.

IIRC, my bride-to-be was whooping it up in Dallas with her cousins & several girlfriends.

(PS - After we got hitched the next week, my lovely bride "cured" me of the college boy pub-crawling life)

[mr surveyor]

Congratulations on the big 50. Y'all have 5 years on my bride and me


jd

[jeepster09]

Memories can be very fun.

[berettabone]

Congrats to you two "youngsters".............................

[knkali]

congrats.....nice to see people pledging their devotion to one another and keeping their promises.

[b4uqzme]

Congrats. Smiley and I hit 30 this year. She says I'm in"cure"able.

[Armybrat]

[b4uqzme]

Dayum! You two still that good lookin?

[gb6491]

Congrats Armybrat...and to Mrs. Armybrat as well
Regards,
Greg

[Bawanna]

I recall seeing that picture before. Very handsome couple. You just had to play football? And the missus had to be a cheer leader, I can feel it in my cells.

We need a now photo to confirm your still that good looking.

We got 34 years, (I think) time flies when your having fun I reckon.

Congratulations to you both and 50 more for you.