Craft Lake City and Bar Crawl/Hike
Alice, Gillian, and I all went to Craft Lake City, which was SO COOL! I'm definitely bringing cash next year, because there were so many cool vendors. Skulls, feathers, dinosaurs, and terrariums were really popular. I collected about 30 business cards of artists whose work I really liked. The photo above was taken by a freelance photographer who was taking free pictures in order to promote her business. Family portrait! Craft Lake City wasn't the drunken part though, that came later. After we were through at Gallivan, we gathered our stuff and went on a homemade BAR CRAWL! Slash hike, because in SLC it's quite a walk to each bar. It started at The Green Pig, a local pub with rave reviews on their food and roof patio. Unfortunately, the roof patio was full so we ended up squeezing into a small bar parallel to the main bar. We sat there for twenty minutes, not knowing what to do about ordering food or drink. Finally, Alice thought to ask the bartender for some menus, which started us off on the whirlwind adventure of ordering our food and my first beer in an actual bar setting. Our food was delicious, the beer was good, and the bar grew steadily more crowded as it got later. As we were getting ready to pay, a man seated behind us at the main bar told us he would pick up our tabs. A little stunned, we asked if he was sure. We had ordered full meals and drinks and didn't know exactly what him paying for it all entailed. He assured us that he was not hitting on us and that he had daughters our age, he just wanted to pay for us. OKAY SIR, WHATEVER YOU SAY. Alice mentioned that I had just had my 21st bday and he wished me a happy birthday while we thanked him and cheered exuberantly once we were outside. We told our waitress on the way out that he was paying for us and she thought it was amazing. The next bar we went to was The Jackalope, a hole in the wall bar that was a total sausage fest. I was bar-shy and didn't know what to do, considering that the entire place was filled to the brim with belligerent guys who immediately gave us the once over when we got inside. Gillian asked what we wanted and I, suddenly unable to remember any drink concoction when put on the spot, said a Jager shot sounded exquisite (because it was the shot special I saw on the wall at this point). After that shot we went to the bathroom, which smelled like urine, and then decided we were through with that place. Next bar on the list was Keys on Main, which is a piano dueling bar. It was so much fun! There are two guys on stage, each with a piano, and they accept song requests along with tips. The unfortunate thing is that the songs with the highest tips got priority, meaning that all the $20 tips got their songs played and ours never was (we requested David Bowie), but it still was a lot of fun to sing along and cheer for your piano player. We did a lot of our drinking here, and in the process I became more accustomed to the bar scene and even chatted it up with the bartender a little (he was insanely busy though). We left at about 12:30 to head over to The Hotel, a dance club, so we could dance until 2 AM (last call). On the way, we asked a ton of people where it was and I'm pretty sure they thought we were asking where A hotel was, like we wanted a room or something. We finally found it, got some shots of whiskey, and danced like fools. At one point someone kept stalking us and asking me if I wanted to dance, which I didn't, so I ended up kissing him to make him leave. It was bizarre, I was incredibly drunk. In the end, my brother picked us up and all three of us could not fit in my bed so I slept on the couch.
Lupe Fiasco Twilight Concert and Poplar
Thursday night was the last Twilight Concert of the season. Twilight Concerts are concerts that take place in a large park downtown every Thursday night of summer. Lupe Fiasco was playing this one, so that combined with the fact that it was the last concert of the summer made it so 30,000 PEOPLE showed up. It was so crowded. Claire and I pre-gamed with Alien Blood, a drink I made up that is composed of green apple schnapps and sprite, and then headed over to Lisa's house, where we all shared a 4-Loko and Lisa and I took shots from the vodka bottle. Unfortunately, all of the water had frozen, leaving only pure alcohol that burned our lips and tongue. We then headed over to the bus stop to catch the bus down to the park but watched as the bus drove by just ten feet in front of us. Shit. Lisa started jetting her thumb out, pretending to hitch-hike while we catcalled and screamed at passing cars. Amazingly, one car U-turned it and asked us if we were yelling at him because we thought he was attractive or because we needed a ride. We truthfully told him we needed a ride and he told us to hop in his car. His name was Nate and we tried to get him to come to the concert with us, but he declined because he'd just come from the gym. He dropped us off in front of the park and we frolicked inside, where we found that there was a sea of people there. We struggled to find a place in the middle of the crowd, where we remained until Lupe started playing. The few songs we did hear were really good, but fights began erupting around us. One guy to the left of us was angry at someone else for touching his girlfriend, the people behind us were sick of people shoving in front of them, the people to the right were drunk and angry, and everyone seemed to just be in the mood for punching. We made our way out of the crowd, where we tried to help a drunk girl call her friends and where I was high-fived for dancing drunkenly to the music. Finally, towards the end of the concert we decided to head over to Poplar, a cute little hangout bar a few blocks away. While there we met Lisa's kickball teammates, some guy who let me have all of his drinks (he had the best friend ever, she kept giving him drinks and then I would just take them from him. Finally I asked his friend if I could have shots and she started bringing them to ME), and some other peeps I forget about. It was really fun. I kept drunkenly ranting about the tar sand situation in Canada. We finally left around 11:30 (it was a school night) and I called Gabe to pick us up again. He then threw a hissy fit and told me to never call him to pick me up when I was drunk again. Also that night I cried because I was so broken-hearted over a boy situation. I cried so much, dear lord...
Girl's Night AKA Last Friday Night
Do you like my tacky pictures accompanying this section? Friday night I asked Kristy and Megan if they wanted to do a Girl's Night, since we hadn't hung out all summer. I headed over to their abode at around 9:30 and we got dressed up while I poured my heart out to Kristy about my boy troubles. I was pretty upset still (and still am, honestly), but she made me feel better about it. We then waited until Megan and her friend Catherine got back from work until we headed over to Lauren's house. While we were there we pre-gamed with white wine and gin and tonics, hung out in Lauren's room, and giggled. A lot. We finally were ready to go to our first bar, Maggie Magee's. We hopped into the Lexus (Lauren is loaded) and headed over, where we realized that the sports bar was actually pretty lame. We decided to leave immediately. Then we headed over to Gracie's, which is apparently the number one hookup bar in SLC. After this point things got a little fuzzy, but I do remember some guys joining us at one point and someone bought me a shot. At some point we got home at like, 2:30 AM where I realized my knees were bloody. Something terrifying happened when we got back home. Tegan (my old roommate) was being dropped off by her friends at the same time as we were being dropped off and, since her friends were being ASSHOLES, Kristy and Lauren started freaking out at them. Tegan started screaming at them, calling them all sorts of beautiful names and telling them they could go to Hell, etc. I hid in the shadows of the doorway, not wanting her to recognize me. I felt a huge wave of relief that I had moved out and was not in the situation anymore though. I cleaned myself up, Megan and I had a drunken heart to heart until three, and then I collapsed in Kristy's bed (she slept over with Lauren). Catherine didn't drink the entire night so she could be our DD, but she probs thought we were idiots. Oh wellll. When we finally all woke up we headed over to Cafe Niche, a cute little breakfast place just to blocks away, and had delicious breakfast sandwiches while we sobered up in the sun and talked some more (about our book club, The Muss, birth control pills, and other inappropriate topics). It was the perfect end to an amazing Girl's Night.
The beer festival was later that day, but I was really hungover (double time) and it was a million degrees outside. Plus I knew that someone I kind of did, kind of didn't want to see was going to be there, so I opted to instead hang out with Gillian on the outside deck of Diva's while playing Scrabble. I went to Nostalgia after that to hang out with Maddie and Kit Fry, where we ended up going to Village Inn (our staple, of course) with Kristi as well and then went back to my place to watch X-Files: I WANT TO BELIEVE! Then we had a ridiculous picture-taking session.
The next day was dedicated to SLEEP and discovering this adorable blog, which I'm obsessed with right now. Natal and I are going to try to take pictures of our birds in their little miniature settings again tomorrow before we go to Geeks Who Drink at Piper Down (a trivia session that involves drinking-I'm down). Also tomorrow Maddie leaves for Germany for a year :'( I left work early today to hang out with her and then go on ONE MORE Village Inn run before we are both without it. I'm sad about it :( But also happy for her and the experiences she's going to have. Also a boy isn't worth being sad about either.
I'm just trying to keep my head up. Life goes on. Life is too short to be miserable for any part of it. So I'll be happy.
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