one of those nights

I don't usually do general recaps of my day. But Saturday night is just begging for it - there was too much weirdness.

I met some friends for a little session of working out some Irish tunes - me on bodhrán, Julia on whistle, Doug on guitar. Holly was supposed to join us on fiddle, but she couldn't make it. We had lots of fun. Of course. We were playing music.

After playing around for awhile, we headed off to Byrne's. Our intention was to check out the Glengarry Bhoys. There was no band. We heard they had to cancel because their vehicle with all of their equipment was stolen. As a musician, that's an absolutely horrifying thought. Sure, you can have insurance to cover the money lost, but sometimes you form weird bonds with certain instruments, and that's hard to replace.

Since there was no live entertainment, we decided to maybe go up to Flannagan's because Doug had a friend who was playing in a band there. On the way to that bar, we all got the early munchies. So we went to the Taco Bell drive-thru before the bar.

This is where we discovered that Julia can't order Taco Bell, because she doesn't understand the menu. Doug & I were quickly able to identify 2-3 items for ourselves, and after about 5 minutes Julia elected 1 chicken soft taco.

This led us to tease Julia about not knowing how to eat Taco Bell. She then pulled in to Wendy's to look over their menu, and decided against anything on it. Next in line was McDonald's. She decided on a grilled chicken wrap.

So with chicken soft taco and grilled chicken wrap in her hand, we pulled into Flannagan's parking lot. Julia then conducted quite the detailed analysis between the two chicken products. Surprisingly, no one had even a pint to drink before all of this.

Then we discovered that Doug's friend's set was already over. So instead we headed to this bar and pool place called Fats, to play Screw Your Neighbor/Survivor/3 Person Pool (all the same game). It was our luck that Fridnay night was karaoke night. They actually bill their karaoke night as "The Worst Karaoke in Town". At least the pool tables were on the opposite side of the building from the "singing".

After 3 games (we each won a game), we decided to go get bubble tea or something like that. The bubble tea place was closed, but in the parking lot was McDonald's, and who can resist a delicious ice cream cone around 12:30am? Not us!

So, um, The End.