Afterwards, Jane Anne and Vin joined me around the corner for a few celebratory drinks! Happy April 2018! Before heading home, I stopped off in Vin's hood to grab a few drinks. Later in the evening, I headed out to Zablowski's in Brooklyn to grab a few drinks with Vin. Hung with my cousins at their backyard bar. Late night I went over to my favorite Florida strip mall bar: Harper's Pub! We grew up playing this in our Pop Pop's basement and the smell of the sawdust always brings me back. Later that night Brett and I walked to our favorite strip-mall bar Harpers... ...and some heated shuffleboard! After dinner, the cousin's headed to the excellent Florida stripmall bar, Harpers, for drinks.... ...McSorely's Ale House. Afterward's we hit Lucy's for a few late night drinks. ...we were the only people in the place. ...to drink tropical drinks with Vin and catch up on the end of 2016! Later that evening I headed to Otto's Shrunken Head.... Went for late night drinks at a local bar! Friday night drinks at C-tav with Grant, Vin and Maddy. Cabin all to ourselves. I sneaked out upstairs to my hotel room around 1am. Well, sandwiches like that and bars like Lucy's! ...so we decided to grab a few drinks and say farewell. Grant was leaving the next day to spend the rest of the summer in Vancouver... Ottos was pretty empty. We made our way towards the little dance floor in the back... ...and managed to make it to last call! Great to see you! Back inside we were treated to bar dancing in a onesie! ...and the drinking-gear remnants of bachelor-party-renters before us. Happy June, 2013! On Monday night I went out to dinner with Kim and Davo and then we ended up having a late night at Lucy's... On Tuesday evening we gathered at the Blind Barber to celebrate... Went over to the beach bar, had a few pina coladas... Swam over to the beach bar at the end of the island. Headed back to Palapa's again for a drink before dinner. ...that loves to drink Coca-cola! (Don't worry, he only gave him a sip). The bartender (owner?) there has a little white dog... About halfway home, I decided to stop off at Palapa Bar for a beer. ...Cherry Tavern to meet up with Vin. Emily came and met us for drinks again. At 8:30 I met up with Sylvie at a pub to watch her lead her language-class in an English-language-based trivia quiz. After the drink has had a chance to absorb the smoke, you take off the smoke hat and drink it! My favorite drink there is called I HEAR BANJOS! It's made of Apple pie moonshine, Rye whiskey, house apple-spice bitters and then they fill the glass with applewood- cinnamon bark smoke. WHAT? Afterwards, we headed downtown to a bar on Broadway. Still going strong at 3am last call. Place was packed! Here is the rest of the bar. Haha. Foosballed until we had to go. Word of caution for you northerns who find your way south of the line: Cornhole means something entirely different down here. We spent the evening at a nearby rooftop bar. Tyson went with Dylan. After the show we went to a nearby bar for a few drinks and then it was time to head back to the bus. Great to see this guy! ... the new rooftop space they opened in the McKitterage Hotel above Sleep No More. Chhati came out of her room around 3am and insisted that the bar be closed. Fraggle argued for just ONE MORE BOTTLE of rum, OK? No, go to bed! This invariably led to more physical violence. At some point during our night of drinking and storytelling, I told Fraggle & Bilbo about how my friends used to photobomb each other with our balls out. This of course instantly became their new favorite game. I'll spare you the hundreds of photos I have of these guys' balls. We arrived back at Reggae Guesthouse to find the bar mysteriously deserted. Later that evening, after some solid warm-up drinking at Reggae Guesthouse, Bilbo, Fraggle and their other friend, Jesus (orange shirt, obvs) took us down the street... Hung out with these two jokers for a bit... I got back to the hotel to find Meredith getting liquored up at the bar and chatting in French with the rest of the hotel crew. And then back to Don Eloy's, the hottest nightlife around, for some beers! ...and beers! We made it to the finish-line bar 10 minutes early so we got to see all the other teams come in. With parking cones. That's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped out (especially Klaus for letting us bring a horse into the hotel lobby)! Right after we got back home, we headed out to The Woods in Williamsburg... I love train station bars. We found the bar where Quinn filmed... Schweaty dance area. I didn't even know this place even closed! On Wednesday night, I stopped by Cherry Tavern to catch up with Vin, Josh and Dave. Showed up on a Wednesday evening and totally dominated. Best bar in the EV. Shhhh. Love the bar's ceiling. ...and went to some Japanese bar in Flatiron for a night of Karaoke Killed the Cat karaoke with the one and only... ...Bowery Bar to for some drinks... Pauly's friends' band, Quest for Fire, was in town playing a show in town and I went to meet up with them late night for post-show drinks at Elsa. Elsa is the new bar that opened up in the old Hanger Bar space and it's pretty rad. (Miss you, Hanger Bar). Tuesday night we went to Bowery Electric... After two solid hours of eating, we waddled cross-town to a bar called O'Flannagan's... Afterwards, everyone sang happy birthday to Andrew... Happy Birthday, Andrew! We had an awesome time! A little after 8pm, we said farewell and walked across town... Time to announce the winning team! While we were there, we asked Pirate Mike if he would mind if one of us danced on the bar. He certainly didn't! BLAMO! 10 POINTS! Everyone in attendance scream-sang Happy Birthday... We went to Bar on A and had some drinks and enjoyed the low key vibe inside. Grrrr! (I don't remember who won!) No dice. Then Alysha's friend gave it a shot. Yonatan hear about Nicole's legendary arm wrestling prowess and wanted to see if he could beat her. (Nope!) 3:50am. It was Pauly's turn on Big Buck Hunter but when we turned to hand him the shotgun, he was asleep on the bar! Hahaha. ...then managed to shake it off. THUMBS DOWN, PAUL! Hahahah. At 3am I got a text from Lisa and Pauly and decided to head out to meet them for some late night drinks at Mama's Bar! Lisa and her friend going head to head. ...but couldn't pin her! Look at the size of his bicep and Nicole is just totally relaxed and smiling. That's her ultimate weapon - to just stand there smiling and unfazed while guy's try their hardest pin her. Hahaha. Check out the plasma-ringed uber sports bar! Late late late on Tuesday night I went to Home Sweet Home... We closed it out. And then Mer and I headed down to El Gringo on the beach to... See, it's just like Misshapes. Oh wait - except for the fact that there are NO GIRLS AL ALL! Seriously, this is what a straight bar in San Francisco looks like on a Saturday night. Have you ever seen such a writhing mass of dudedom in your life? Saturday night we went to Arrow Bar for Frisco Disco. And it sorta was ! The venue is tiny and the whole back area has all this foam stuff everywhere that makes the walls look like rock so it feels like you're in a cave.
