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June 16, 2007

Scott's Bachelor Party

Scott Jentzen, my very best friend from high school, and a whole crew of Roxbury High School alumni came into NYC to have Scott's Bachelor Party!

Saturday, June 16th

john c, kermit, scott
I hopped on the subway and headed up to the Upper West Side to kick the night off with some dinner!
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kent, ron
Kent and Ron.
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Steve (Bonus Points for whomever managed to sneak the bird into Steve taking this awesome MySpace photo of himself!).
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russ
Russ enjoying a smooth, refreshing beverage.
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scott, tim f
After we finished eating, we headed out to our...
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...huge, white, Cadillac Escalade strech limo!
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kent, kermit, russ, steve o
And then headed cross-town to do a bunch of bar hopping on the Upper East Side.
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scott, tim f
Scott and Tim in the back! I love how excited Tim is about going drinking. Hahaha. I hadn't been out in NYC with these two since Scott's 27th birthday (over 5 years ago! Holy shit, we're old).
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me, russ
Russ and me.
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At the next bar we asked the bartender to give us a shot of the cheapest, well tequila he had for the birthday boy and he presented this bottle of Juarez Gold for our approval.
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scott
Down the hatch. *shudder!*
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jeff m, john c
After a couple more hours of barhopping, around 1:30 we hopped back in the limo...
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john c
..the limo that had mirrored ceilings, and headed across the 59th Street Bridge into Queens in order to go to a noody bar.
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scott
Scott: Crossing the 59th Street Bridge and feelin' groooooooovy.
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jeff m, kent
Kent and Jeff.
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This is the only photo from our trip to SCANDALS (which was anything but scandalous). It was the first time our friend Russ had ever been to a strip club and my absolute favorite part of the night was watching him try to understand it.

He was standing next to me at the edge of the stage and girls kept coming by, dancing in front of him for a few seconds and then looking annoyed and walking away. So I explained to Russ that were annoyed because they expected a tip. The next time a girl came around, Russ held out a dollar bill and the girl swooped over and used her boobs to snatch it out of Russ' hands. He looked over at me bewildered and said "It's like feeding bread to seagulls." Hahahahaha.
strippers
jeff m, kent
We left Scandals a little after 3am and headed back into Manhattan to the hotel in Times Square that everyone but me was going to be crashing at.
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scott
Scott lasted long enough to finish his final beer...
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scott
...then decided to take a lil' nappy-nap for the rest of the ride.
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jeff m, me
Shotgun!
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me, tim f
Jeff was snapping pics of me making face next to sleeping Tim...
passed out ˆ me ˆ tim f
me, tim f
...but the flash woke him up and the picture of "just-waking-up" Tim proved to be much funnier than "taking-a-lil-nap" Tim.
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me, scott, tim f
Wakey, wakey, Gents! Looks like we've arrived at...
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...your hotel! The very classy Hotel Carter. According to Jeff this is THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST hotel in all of Manhattan. Hahaha. (Man, he totally wasn't kidding either. Check out the amazing reviews that people have written about this place.)
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Check the slogan! They totally couldn't be bother to pay for the word "Everything" at the beginning of the sign! Hahaha.
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We took one last admiring look at our totally awesome limo...
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scott
...and gave some pound love to our driver and thanked him for ferrying us around all night!
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russ, tim f
We were all starving so we headed...
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...a whole ten feet next door to the conveniently located Lucky Star Cafe.
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jeff m, john c, scott
Who wants a sketchy schwarma at 3:45am?
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scott, tim f
These guys!
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scott
Drunk guy eating a late night snack!
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scott
Hahahah. Oh, man. This photo makes me laugh so hard.
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john c
John too.
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Who almost got mistaken for a homeless man by drinking his coffee on the sidewalk next door to the shady hotel.
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jeff m, john c, kent, ron, steve o
After finishing up our treats...
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...the guys walked with me to Times Square to say goodbye. I caught a cab going south on Broadway so that I could sleep in my own, non-roach-infested bed!
john c, ron, russ, scott, steve o
Happy Engagement, Mr. Jentzen! See you at the wedding in a couple of weeks!
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