GFH3 Run #1,674; 15 Dec 2012

Saturday's weather was simply gorgeous; sunshine and high 50s.  Cums Too Fast hosted for the second time in his 194 runs, from his luxury apartment's festively-decorated entertainment center in Rosslyn.  The perils of the big city proved too much for many of our intrepid hashers, but a high-quality group of 19 gathered.  Attendees included three new members, whose Hash experience encompasses Senegal, Nepal and Botswana.  We do hope to see Lila, Kent and James again some day.  The veterans the Mufti, Air Horne, Zipperhead and special guest star Rrocks Starr all joined us.

Bad Fred ran the speedy types out to Ballston and then sent them home on the Metro -- even providing Metro cards for everyone.  While the FRBs waited 20 minutes for the train, Zipperhead and Phoenix Rising made it to the platform with about 15 seconds to spare.  Apparently, no one jogged in place during the wait.  Meanwhile, the walkers set off past Iwo Jima and covered the substantial distance to the Tomb of the Unknowns and back.

CTF offers up Metro tix.

Once returned, the gang enjoyed Dos Equis, Black Box wines and a choice of pork and broccoli or black bean and veg hot pot over rice.  Hasher Flasher and Cums Too Fast shared a mutually-belated birthday cake, and the neophyte James initiated a conversation about fetishes and literature.  I will never understand this group (and prefer not to).

Everyone was terribly saddened that Lori, Greg and Leslie gave up the search for the top-secret location of the meet.  And I apologize for INDY and my forgetting the camera.  I had to rely on the phone for photos, so the graininess quotient is far above our usual standard.  Oh, how we all miss the professionalism and eye for fleeting beauty of our official hash flash.  Radar, where art thou?

Best synchronized speech ever offered.

Thanks for all the help cleaning up, Strider et al!  The fuzzy photos are on view here.