So, it has been said many times on this forum that Jason is rediculously nice. Scary, in fact. Some of us have wondered if he is secretly a serial killer.
Anyway, the point is that Jason is constantly doing nice things for many of us, but never allows us to repay him. Until tonight...
...but he really had no choice.
Way back in April, when he picked me up in Athens and took me down to Emma, I came up with an idea...a surprise birthday party. On that session, I ran it by Justin, who loved it. At the May Fork Fish-In, I got his parents and Eva on board.
Next, I got Chad on board, since Eva thought we should have it at Rockfish.
Then came the PM thread. Now, I don't send pm's out to a ton of people and didn't think I had the ability to do so. So...I got Justin to send out a mass pm about the party. He did, but there was a HUGE problem...
He also sent it to Jason.
So, in the middle of the night, me and a couple of others scramble to get him to change the pm to a drunken rant. It worked, and after much suspicion, I came to the conclusion that Jason had no clue about the party.
Somehow, we managed to hide this party from Jason since the end of May. I don't know how we did it, but it worked out to be awesome.
Of course, not knowing about this shin-dig, Jason threw some wrenches into my plans, but Eva and I handled everything he threw at us.
Several of us met at Rockfish tonight and waited for Jason. Some of his family and other friends were there and we watched him come in. The funny thing was that he noticed his brother sitting there, and you could almost see the gears turning. As he walked around the corner and saw us sitting there, the look on his face was priceless.
We had a great dinner and it was good to see everybody. I tried to get as many people as I could to contribute to a book that I made for Jason, and it turned out to be pretty awesome.
Jason had no idea, and that's what counted the most. I am now number one on his list of people to kill, but that's ok. He always falls asleep before I do when we go fishing and doesn't wake up easily!

He just better be glad that our plans to kidnap him got derailed. That would have been really awesome.
Anyway, thanks to Eva and Chad for helping me plan this thing. It was truly a "tremendous success!" Thanks to everybody that came out and contributed to the book.
I will post pics and the video of Jason walking in and realizing what was happening tomorrow, but I am absolutely spent tonight.
What a great night. Jason, you deserved all of it and happy birthday.