Ella and Francisco

In September Ella and I traveled to Irving, CA to attend Mason-Julia Chen’s first baptism. Her parents, Gloria and Tony, hosted a great brunch at a local chinese restaurant where we destroyed a multiple course meal. Later that night the parents and friends congregated at Malarkeys, the bar where Gloria and Tony first met. Basic decency and a reluctance to undermine Mason’s image of her parents prevent me from telling the story of their first meeting, but all of us who went back to the bar attempted to recreate the historic atmosphere. We all tried the famous 9-1-1 shot, which appeared to be a mixture of whatever hard liquors were situated closely to the barkeep’s hands.The pictures below are the only ones appropriate for showing here. I intend to save the others for future blackmailing needs.

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