After another TWO HOURS on the boat, we took a car from Tagbilaran to Alona Beach and finally arrive a little past 1:30am. Our taxi driver took us to a few different hotels trying to find vacancy without much luck. Then he looked us up and down and said, I know a place that probably has vacancy if you don't mind a place that's a little....different.
...and we teamed up for this incredibly hot photo. (I don't know if you know this, but I'm going to let you in on a huge secret: WE ARE HUGE FUCKING DORKS.)
That's right, I wasn't just at Gurj's birthday as a friend, I was there as a hired performer! You see, Sarah had been unsuccessful in her attempts to hire a male stripper and so she ended up asking me if I'd be willing to do it (Sarah knew all about my previous experience as a male stripper). She offered to pay me, but in the end I told her I'd settle for being paid back the money she already owed me! Hahaha. So around 1am that night, they called Gurj up onto the stage, and in front of pretty much all of our friends...
On Thursday night I stopped by that speak-easy bar in the Lower East Side (the one that used to be called the Lansky Lounge) and ran into Will McD! It's a running joke that we both look like the bad guys from the movie The Karate Kid, so here we are pulling our best impressions of "Bad Sensei" and "Sweep the Leg Johnny."
Chris thought that March in NYC would mean warm temperatures and didn't have a coat with him. Whoopsie! Here he is diagonally zipping-up his face to hide it from the 20° wind chill on the walk home! Hahah.
On Saturday evening I stopped by Leigh's apartment to get something I'd left there and she answered the door in her ketchup hoodie! (Which I hadn't seen in years!) Here's Leigh looking sad because I caught her wearing a red hoodie with pink shoes! Even I know those colors don't go together! Hahah.
I left Happy Ending, and having been long since abandoned by David, met up with Posh Tony who had just gotten back from tour and was on his way to the Dark Room. On the way there, he and I stopped by Meredith's apartment to try to get her to come out with us (at 2:30am). No dice!
Sunday morning = time to go home. While packing, we sorted through all the schwag bags we'd grabbed to see if there was anything worth keeping. The most puzzling schwag bag we received had to be the one that contained only two things: A t-shirt promoting the nation-wide release of the indie film Garden State (size: XXXL) and a single packet of Astroglide personal lubricant. I can honestly say, my curiousity about the film was certainly piqued! But the award for "best freebie" has to go to...
On the walk home I realized that Meredith and Leigh's yellow and red hoodies made them look like they were playing "Mustard" and "Ketchup" in a 2nd Grade musical about the lunchroom.
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