Indeed it was an enlightening weekend for me, and a greatly gratifying experience for the praiseriot.com team. We had the awesome privilege to spend the entire weekend with Calvin `Prodigal Son` Wilby, His beautiful wife, family and friends.

It began with a surprising invitation to his `surprise` pre-birthday party on Friday evening (1st May); Having to rush from work, pick up WissyGee, pick up some cameras in the daunting traffic, grocery shopping, gift shopping and then roughing the road again to pick up Kay; all this being done between 5pm to 7pm... to be ready for a wow surprise scheduled for eight. After all that I am sure that Kay and Wissygee ( armed with his life saving map to Danny Brownie's Home) like myself forgot to remind ourselves that we are dealing with born and grown Jamaicans.

So we finally found the home, yeah it was an interesting journey. By now we were deciding who was going to get to write up this gift, it was left up to me to misspell the name on the one card we bought to attach to the gift. At this time CraigC our trusted contact had not left Portmore for the scheduled 8pm surprise (mind you at this time it was already 7:45pm).

Thank God, Andrea (background vocal) now arrived! We now saw someone we knew `ish`. We went in...

Slowly the time ticked on and the friends and family began appearing: Moses, Gregory (keysie1) , Luke (keysie2) , Joan & children, CJ, Gabrielle & Regina, several overseas guests, Mr. Gallimore and Sheena (background vocal).

We played pool while Moses shoot off his mouth and surprisingly beating all in his path (including Gregory who needed to voice all the reasons why he lost), all to everyone's surprised. I sorted that out though breaking his streak, but bored the entire scene being overly technical about what to play and almost lost too.

So the well wishers continued to pour in... Dj Nic and his beautiful wife Sandra, Jason (Lil? Jay) Mighty and his dashingly attired better half Nikki, Ricky ?road manager?, Denver (the percussionist) and Shepherd.

It was really good fun and very humbling to see these individuals outside their element of ministering, just relaxing having fun.

Yeah it?s about 9pm and still no Prodigal... but trust mi all this time Joan (man what a woman can work!) she had it `all under control` :) The decoy of having Ryan Mark carry Prodigal to Church on the Rock?s Youth Congress seemed to have backfired as his Pastor held him up to give a testimony. However the plan was now back on `schedule` as Ryan `Prodigy` Mark explained to Prodigal that he had to collect something from Djuvane, Danny?s Son.

The time was upon us... Prodigal outside! It was so funny to see the shuffling, I can only imagine what it was like on the outside to see the lights on the inside suddenly going off, and on and off, wait, off again... `him coming!, shi sheeee shi shi quiet`, only to see Ryan and Crissy just walk in and start hide (where were all these people). I am sure him must get it by now with all the cars parked on the outside (he should have caught on by now).

Wait, wait Craig C now walked in with chicken in hand accompanied by Murphy & D.A.Jay and only just before Prodigal, so him must see it. Nevertheless `SURPRIZE`, "nah tell no lie still, it did look like Prodigal did actually surprise". On second thoughts it seemed like the massive was actually surprised as it wasn?t until Prodigal had passed most that the small cries of surprise were uttered. Nonetheless, it was all smiles and greeting, hugs and kisses, the party was on.

No no wait wait... Did I forget to mention that CraigC `bruk up` the people dem chair... that was motivation not to sit for rest of the night (seeing as how I am not so small myself).

It was a definate crack up to see Denver (seem like it was a usual thing) `acting a fool`, getting the vibes going. `Ku Deh` Joan pulled out the `running man`! Then if nothing before this moment didn?t give me a mad laugh (except Craig C mashing up the chair) then it was when usually well composed (well for me atleast) Andrea began to act out with Joan... Man it was hilarious.

Yes, but as the night progressed, I manage to capture some pictures of the action and for the number of pictures with Denver (the one with the locks) and his newly created random ?one finger touch? dance . If I remember correctly I believe it was inspired by Dj Nicholas `1 Less` track on Spirit Scription which was playing.

Yup Wissy chat it up with Ryan, Kay all over the place claiming she was hiding from the camera, Denver being Denver, D.A. Jay a hide the `ting`, Murphy a with him GQ posing, Lil Jay basking in the presence of his Wife, Dj Nicholas, Moses and and everybody else teasing Gallimore about the absence of or lack thereof, of his betta half, Denver again lifting random items above everyone's head, and finally me chatting to everyone and being labeled the paparazzi: Yep the night was great fun.

It?s about 12 something now, `I and I are tired and wanna sleep`... later is the daunting journey to Gospel By the Sea in Negril.

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