In which we were out of town for 26 hours and it was HELLA FUN!
Teh BF asked our employer if we could leave at six o’clock on New Year’s Eve. Our employer agreed! So we checked the weather, talked it over, and then gleefully took mmmFiber up on her offer to overnight at her place in Portland for New Year’s Eve.
Of course, I was stuck on the phone until 6:17, but we were pulling out of the BMI parking lot at 6:21. We made the trip in three and a half hours, and arrived at Adie & Adam’s a little after ten. They gave us champagne, we changed, Adie gave me a cute hat, and then we went out. They live right near Alberta street, which has several blocks of cute stores and pubs.
We went to four different bars, stopping at a couple of them a second time on the walk back home. We got drunk and rambunctious and hollered “Happy New Year!” to complete strangers. We discovered “the Alberta”: a cocktail made of lemon, orange, vodka, and lime juice muddled with fresh basil. I made Teh BF buy me a blingy ring from this awesome hustler chick (I thought she was awesome because (a) I was drunk, and (b) she was, like me, wearing fucking Crocks in Portland. In the rain. Like an idiot. Who the hell wears shoes with HOLES IN THEM in Portland?!) that we’d met on the walk from one bar to another. Then he ordered me some awesome black bean nachos because we were drunk and had not had dinner.
We went back to the house and drank more and talked and played with the dogs – they have two terriers, a Schnauzer and a Cairn – and hung out until the wee hours of the morning.
Six hours later we were up again. After coffee we went to the Chapel Pub for bloody marys and brunch. Then we took the light rail downtown and stopped at the Thirsty Lion, mostly to get out of the rain. Then we took the train back to the car, and the car back to the house, where we watched an episode of Red Dwarf.
Then we collected our stuff and Bindu and drove home. Whirlwind 26-hour vacation! Whee! I HAD DO MUCH FUN OMGWTFBBQ.
Back in W2, we pulled into the driveway, marched right down the stairs, and held the couch down until bedtime. I slept like a rock last night.
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Hot diggity! I haven’t gone out on New Year’s in I don’t know how many years. But you make it sound so fun. And, yum, I want one of these Albertas. Right this minute. Are they good for breakfast, you think?
Yes, yes I do! -m
Sounds like a rockin good time! Not be a dog nerd, but did your friends have a mini, standard, or giant version of the Schnauzer?
Dog nerd – LOL! Mini. She’s here. -m
You are amassing quite the bling collection. A couple more solid pieces and I expect to see you in the next T.I. video rapping about how you have more ice than cocktail bar in an igloo.
I read that as, “and Bindu drove home,” which I thought was a reference to y’all having been drinking… it was much funnier (to me alone, most likely) when I saw that I had imagined it.
this sounded n still sounds like one helluva good time… glad you had such fun. 🙂