Ricky's AIDS LIfeCycle 11 Adventure: One day, 3 days worth of posts (post 2) Fundrasing Party!

(This post should have been submitted Oct 5th in the ??. Unfortunately, this was my birthday week so I am just now catching up. I also had quite a hangover from the 4th so who knows if this would have gone up on the 5th! So lets pretend today is October 5th, definitely in the PM :) )

Good lord, what a night! Besdies having an awesome birthday day (pumpkin bagel, bike ride, pumpkin latte in the afternoon) I celebrated my birthday at Bamboo Lounge, a wine bar in Hillcrest. I am blessed! I have such an amazing group of friends. I chose to use my birthday as an opening night fundraiser to kick off my $3000 needed/$4444 goal to ride in the AIDS Lifecyle. The food was great, the drinks flowed nicely. However, in that one day, I raised..... wait for it...... $1005 dollars to my goal! What the @$#&. That is so AWESOME!!!! Thank you friends so much. You are the best ever and I could not feel any more fortunate that to have a great group of friends in my life. The pig alone raised $70. Amongst the online donation and two generous gifts of $350 and a matching $300 gift, I am one third of my way to raising the money to ride and one quarter of the way to my goal (4 is my favorite number, hence the goal of $4444). After Bamboo Lounge, well, ask Jenna, Kira, Danny, Ryan or Jose. I don't recall much from that part of the night :)
Again, thanks and I send my love to my friends for being kick ass people. Enjoy the pics!

The boys (Joey, Dustin, Ryan, I, Manny, Garrison)