17th March 2006

Posted March 17, 2006

Last Friday, and Thursday for that matter were a lot of fun, and were quick days. At work, we had a great client come in and work with us for those two days, so they went by really quick and I was really excited to meet them so it was equally fun for me.

After a hard day of work on Friday, I met Sarah, Kenny, and Lori downtown at Loughlin’s on Maryland and Meridian. Being St. Patty’s day, we thought it may be a little more festive then it actually was, oh well. But it was a good food, and there was a some celebration there because Kenny just got a new job as a teacher the previous day, so I got a shot and we celebrated. The girls got some fun drinks too, and after dinner we even stuck around in the bar for a short while and ordered another round.

Just before 9 we headed out and immersed ourselves in the atmosphere, the downtown was hopping. The streets were full of people and there were beer tents all around on Delaware south of Maryland. We found an ATM in one of the bars, which was cool to get out and walk around and see all the people dressed up, some more trashy than others.

We then headed down to South street and Illinois to the Slippery Noodle, which I have only heard great things about and have wanted to visit forever. It was so much cooler than I expected, the ambiance of this building, which has been around forever, two stories, that later on looks like it bought out the building next to it and connected the two together. All sorts of weird little hallways and open rooms, angles of the roofs, just a really loud, sensory experience. It’s a Blues Bar, so there are multiple bands playing at any given time on multiple little stages, mostly little local bands from what I gather, but they get some bigger names there that elude me at the moment.

The only problem with a place like that, even though I love the frat type atmosphere, the college throwback, is the noise. You can’t carry on a conversation, and I suppose that is not why you would go there. So we stayed for about an hour and a half before we all left and headed back to Kenny and Lori’s place.

Getting out of the parking down there was a damn blast. It was like three parking lots came together at one axis, and all of them were parking on different angles so the isles that were left, if you headed down the wrong one, you had to back out. We found an exit where we stepped on the chain to even make our escape, we felt sprung from the slammer.

On the way back to their place Sarah and I decided to get some more beer and wine, and the party store we pull into, five minutes after we are inside Kenny pops in, they had the same idea. Gotta love them.

Back at their place it was the “Welcome to our Pad” tour which is cool, they have an awesome party type basement, pool table, lots of space, and then cards, music and food. We just had a lot of fun out with them, again, kind of like the first time when they were over for dinner.