Friday was a pretty busy day... lots of fun stuff going on.

St. Baldrick's

First off, if you haven't heard of St. Baldrick's, it's a charity organization that raises money to find a cure for children's cancer. Every year at this time, people take donations and then shave their heads in solidarity with the kids that lose their hair due to cancer. Our company always has a group of people that do this each year... mostly guys, but last year a girl also shaved her head.

Anyway, the big shaving-day was Friday... and this year, they did it at our office in a conference room and our company brought in beer and snacks. Instead of just shaving the heads, everyone gets some crazy design shaved into their head (and we all got to vote on which design each person got). The fun part is when we all go out to a bar afterwards... it's actually a pretty good advertisement for the charity, because people are always asking why these people's hair is shaved like that. The Towers Perrin teams raised over $28,000 in total this year... the group of actuaries raised over $7,500. Here are some pics from the office party:

Colin gets a cent sign


Josh gets a heart with a rat-tail


Mark gets... I have no idea what this would be called


JC gets the "Bert" from Bert & Ernie


Andrew gets another one of those "I have no idea what this is" kind of designs

Nate wasn't originally one of the people getting his head shaved but during the happy hour he said he would shave his head if someone donated $200... and a split second later two principals had forked over the money! The shamrock was definitely my favorite!


Dan (another audience volunteer) got the double mohawk


The whole group


I'm sure the night cleaning crew were wondering what the heck happened in that room... when we left, there were lots of empty beer bottles and piles of hair all over the floor!

After the work happy hour, we grabbed a few drinks at the Cactus with everyone.

Fubar's 30th Birthday Pub Crawl

After the Cactus, Matt and I headed up north to join the pub crawl already in progress. Mike (aka Fubar) turned 30 and was doing a 30 bars for 30 years pub crawl. He had a beer or shot at each bar along the way and had to finish before midnight. They started at like 11am and by the time we got there it was after 7pm and they were on bar number 20-something. He was still holding up ok, but I'm sure he will be hurting on Saturday. We stayed with the pub crawl for the remaining bars. We ended at Finley Dunn's, bar #30, which had some free (much-needed) popcorn.