Sunday, October 23, 2005

Yay pub crawl!! I have to say, we are a bunch of rockstars, truly!

I started the day by picking up Jason & heading to FirstWatch for brunch...just as one would carb-load for a marathon, the same goes for the pub crawl...gotta fuel up for the challenge ahead! Afterwards we started the pub crawl at Blayney's where everyone on the team met up. It was also our first bar, so the 10 of us quickly downed our 4 pitchers of beer and cheerfully went on to Cactus Cafe, our 2nd bar. I haven't been there in awhile, & they had done some remodeling. Kindof a cool place, had good music. While we were there i spotted Sean...yikes!! What rule was that that said no ex-boyfriends allowed?? Yeah, so i avoided that situation altogether, drank my beer & out the door we went! On to bar 3...oh wait, not so fast! We had to stop at Buzzard Beach Bar next door, a bunch of our friends were there so of course we had to say hi! and...um...help them drink some of their beer... :) So now we're on to bar 3...America's Pub...which is the worst bar ever! Totally gangsta on a normal nite, but fortunately at the time we were there it was just us pub-crawlers. We danced it up while racing through our 4 pitchers there and then it was on to the Dark Horse Tavern, bar #4. So far so good, everyone's having a good time, and the drunk dials & drunk text messages are starting to pour in! Once at the Dark Horse we decided shots were in order, and had a couple of rounds of those in addition to our 'usual' 4 pitchers. It was at this point that i started to realize, maybe i havent exactly been pulling my weight...i've been consistently with beer in hand, but i dont think i've had more than maybe a cup or 2 at each bar....not exactly contributing to the beer consumption our team is responsible for. Of course, this is a fleeting thought...because now it's on to the next bar! Bar #5, the Beaumont...thank goodness! All this traveling about was starting to wear me out! Actually, not really...the night was just beginning!!

We ran into just about everyone i know in kc there, since it was where the afterparty was. I ran into some of Beau's friends & chatted with them for awhile...had a heart-to-heart with my good friend Leslina...then ran into Dawn & Jill & talked to them for awhile...i think i had some more beer in there somewhere...ran into Kenny & Sarah & ended up hanging out with them for the rest of the night. At some point we decided that Harpos was the place to be, so we left the Beaumont for there. Had a couple of beers, did a bunch of dancing & goofing off with everyone (I cringe to think how silly we were acting...drunken fools! lol), and when it started to get crowded we decided that we needed to go to Kelly's. Once there we had MORE beer, and ran into a couple of other people we worked with (i'm starting to sense a trend here...). Kenny & Sarah decided they were calling it a nite (wusses! ok wait...it is like 12am now...) so i continued on with my coworkers until about 1am. Crraaziness!! I was afraid i wasnt going to last 5 hours, and here I am 12 hours later still going strong! Definitely time to call it a night, otherwise i risk looking like an alcoholic. ;) (ok, maybe it's a little late for that, lets be honest) So, i hailed a cab & home i went. Once you decide the end is near, best not to wait around for someone to carry you home.

A few notes about the evening....managed to follow almost all the rules i set yesterday....ALMOST. Yeah, remember that one about ex boyfriends not being allowed?? Yeah, we can thank Sean for blowing that one out of the water! While at the beaumont i find out from dawn that she & sean had this long talk earlier in the evening...can we say yikes?! how am i supposed to avoid this guy with him chasing down my friends?? so anyways, she tells him to chill out & just give me my space & things'll be fine...so what does he do? Immediately call me & then send about 10 text messages trying to find out where i am. Oy. When he finally found me, all i got was "hey, hows it goin? havin a good nite?" wtf? dude, you're trying so hard to find me & this is all you can say? you're killin me here! anywho...my good friend kenny came over & saved me, so our conversation ended about 5 min after it started. *sigh of relief*. I feel bad for the guy, but sometimes you gotta know when to just let something go. :
So...aside from that, it was a really good time!! oh wait, one more note...i think i smoked half the cigarettes in kc yesterday...or at least, that's what it sounds like i did, since my voice was gone when i woke up this morning! It's come back a touch, so now i sound like a 60 year-old lady whose smoked her entire life...some improvement huh? hehe...All in all though, given the shape i could be in (say, suffering a 5-star hangover right about now) this is stellar...much better than i wouldve expected given the circumstances. yay pub crawls!! Can't wait for May, when the next one is.