Lizzie is Old, I mean a young 30

Thats right, you read the title correctly, my friend Lizzie is getting too damn old for me to hang out with her. Not really, but she is turning 30 and it is time to celebrate.

Lizzy wanted to celebrate her 3rd decade by throwing a masquerade in her honor of course at the Texas and Pacific Lofts. But, in order to get into the party, every guest obviously had to wear some sort of mask.

I have never been to a masquerade party before but the only masquerade party I have seen was in the movie Eyes Wide Shut and that turned out to be just a huge orgy. Sometime was telling me that this was not that kind of party at all.

So with all of the orgy nonsense/wishful thinking out of the way, it was time to get to the closest Halloween City store and get a non orgy mask. And let me tell you, those damn things are expensive as hell. I saw a mask at Kroger for 6 bucks and the Halloween City stores had the exact same mask for 14 dollars. I didn't realize how much they markup the shit out of everything.

It is now time for the party and Lizzie reserved the banquet room at the Texas and Pacific Lofts and decorated it with pictures from her youth to present. It was very cool how she did this. You could see all of her interests and activities that she participated in as a kid that I didn't know she was in to.

Other than masquerade parties, Lizzie also has a secret love passion for trivia and you can bet your ass that she Incorporated her two of her favorite things together. Once you enter the party, there was a row of pictures of celebrities with masks over their faces and people had to figure out of that mystery celebrity was. It may sound easy, but it was actually hard because some of the celebrities only had their eyes or hair visible. Pretty tough, but I got 7 out of 10 correct. Since I tied for 2ND place, I won a couple of bottles of wine. And people say "Cheaters never prosper".

After checking out everyone's mask and eating some heavy hors d'oeuvres (which was chicken express chicken tenders, biscuits, and vegetables), it was now time for another trivia game. This game was much more intense and difficult than the first game. There were 30 questions and every question had to do something with a mask. I failed miserably and felt dumb, I am more than sure that that was Lizzie's plan the whole time.

While Lizzie was her party, there was a wedding reception going on next door. We tried to complete with which party had the loudest music. The wedding reception obviously won. And since they were next door, we could see into their party through the windows that separated our parties from each other. I am pretty sure that they thought it was kind of weird for a group of people in their mid 20s to early 30 to be constantly standing around wearing masks the whole time.

But before the night could end, it was toast time. This is a tradition that she picked up from her year in Australia and wanted to bring it to the US of A. In Australia, friends and family members will toast the guest of honor in order to celebrate certain birthdays and milestones in life. Quite a few people made a toast to Lizzie and everyone could tell that Lizzie enjoyed all of them.

With the keg starting to float and the party coming to an end, it was time to call it a night. Lizzie had a great time and seemed to enjoy the fact that she is not longer in her 20s but still wants to drink like she is.