Rave: St. Louis

[jim]

St. Louis is awesome. The Shantii has become my favorite bar in town, I love the hippies and always meet cool people. Good blues bands and Bebe's and Biel St near the stadium, and I even made it to the east side (Pop's). Schlafly Tap is awesome. Some doubted my ability to go strong 2 straight days, but me and two other buddies did manage. One whimped out at 1am on Saturday, and four of them (m1ironmik being one) only made it down for one night. Got in after 4am on Friday and after 5am Saturday. Stayed up and ate sausage rolls like apples and threw them at each other until 6. Looooong drive home today.

[M1IRONMIKE]

my head still hurts

[jim]

I will say Mike even though you only did one night you got two nights worth of drinking in there. I'm still trying to estimate my alcohol consumption ... easily 20+ on day 1 but I took it pretty easy Saturday - in the 15 range.

And dare I say it? I drank a couple of lite beers Saturday, because Friday night the plan of beer/water/beer/water went out the window after the second water. So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

[heyzeus]

So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

So you did go to the Central West End!

[jim]

So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

So you did go to the Central West End!

Never made it over there. Once we got to Shanti's again we just found a bunch of people that were fun to talk to. Although I will say the Halloween crowd was watered down compared to Friday - not bad but just different in that it felt less local. Less hippy-ish ... something. Definitely a different vibe, but I liked both Friday and Saturday night crowds.

[planet planet]

So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

So you did go to the Central West End!

Never made it over there. Once we got to Shanti's again we just found a bunch of people that were fun to talk to. Although I will say the Halloween crowd was watered down compared to Friday - not bad but just different in that it felt less local. Less hippy-ish ... something. Definitely a different vibe, but I liked both Friday and Saturday night crowds.

Oh man, I wish so bad I would have met you guys! I love the Shanti! And hanging with drunk jim would have been a blast!

[jim]

So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

So you did go to the Central West End!

Never made it over there. Once we got to Shanti's again we just found a bunch of people that were fun to talk to. Although I will say the Halloween crowd was watered down compared to Friday - not bad but just different in that it felt less local. Less hippy-ish ... something. Definitely a different vibe, but I liked both Friday and Saturday night crowds.

Oh man, I wish so bad I would have met you guys! I love the Shanti! And hanging with drunk jim would have been a blast!

Drunk m1ironmik was even more entertaining than drunk jim.

[sighyoung]

So Saturday I tried a beer/lite beer/beer/lite beer/shot of tequilla/beer/shot of some fruity thing/beer/shot of some cinamon-y thing routine and that worked much better.

So you did go to the Central West End!

Never made it over there. Once we got to Shanti's again we just found a bunch of people that were fun to talk to. Although I will say the Halloween crowd was watered down compared to Friday - not bad but just different in that it felt less local. Less hippy-ish ... something. Definitely a different vibe, but I liked both Friday and Saturday night crowds.

Oh man, I wish so bad I would have met you guys! I love the Shanti! And hanging with drunk jim would have been a blast!

Drunk m1ironmik was even more entertaining than drunk jim.

Sounds like Hurricane Springfield was a Category 5 storm.

[jim]

None of us got arrested or hurt, nobody did anything that would get us in that much trouble. I can't account for about $200, but otherwise it was a pretty solid drunk with not big casualties.

Actually we think we know what happened - and this is just a little quirk of mine. I got the hotel and put it on my credit card, and for the second year in row I was walking around St. Louis with about $1000 in cash in my wallet because my friends all paid me for the hotel in cash. If I have money in my pocket, I spend it. If I have money in my pocket and I'm drunk, I just completely blow it. I do remember buying strangers rounds or drinks - especially Friday, but how many and who they were I'll never know.

That doesn't bother me anymore because that's just the cost of being me. I didn't even count my money Saturday because when I woke I was pulling wads of money out of every pocket. I even found a wad of bills in my shaving bag. I have no idea what that was about.

[sighyoung]

None of us got arrested or hurt, nobody did anything that would get us in that much trouble. I can't account for about $200, but otherwise it was a pretty solid drunk with not big casualties.

Actually we think we know what happened - and this is just a little quirk of mine. I got the hotel and put it on my credit card, and for the second year in row I was walking around St. Louis with about $1000 in cash in my wallet because my friends all paid me for the hotel in cash. If I have money in my pocket, I spend it. If I have money in my pocket and I'm drunk, I just completely blow it. I do remember buying strangers rounds or drinks - especially Friday, but how many and who they were I'll never know.

That doesn't bother me anymore because that's just the cost of being me. I didn't even count my money Saturday because when I woke I was pulling wads of money out of every pocket. I even found a wad of bills in my shaving bag. I have no idea what that was about.

Don't forget all the pretty art work.