Pubcrawl anyone?

Well this is my first post and i hope i have more time in the future to keep this thing updated. It would seem that a journal of what goes on in my (our) life is a little bit late since there could be pages of old stories i could tell but its better late then never. Lets start with saturday, April 8th, Pubcrawl for Laura.

Cast of characters: (everyones real name, or as i remember them)
Pat (homeboy)
Jessie (homeboy)
Kevin (jessies bro)
Jay Jonah (homeboy)
Keith (homeboy)
Ashley (keiths women)
Jamie (ashley's sister)
Chris (Jamies BF)
Ruben (club Z)
Fred (rionario)
Francine (old navy)
Lindsey (old navy)
Blonde friend (friend of old navy)

These are the people that started out with us at Pats house. We decided to get everyone who we know together at one place to start drinking. Everyone else listed are people on the pubcrawl that i knew or people i just ran into at the bars we were at

Laura (old navy, birthday girl)
Chantel (old navy, loves the cheese)
Chris Epton (bro of old homeboy)
Christine (telus)
Alex Mahary (highschool, U of A)
Simon (alex's bro)
Kristen (high school, U of A, many other connections)

There are a bunch more but those are the ones that have the most to do with the night

Location: 60 castle keep
Time: 7pm

I decide that all i really need to get started is a 6 pack of MGD and some Absinthe. That and the flask i take on the bus with me. Katie (pat's sister) was in Europe last summer and came back with some wicked Absinthe, and when i say wicked i don't mean cool i mean it was disgusting. There was about half a bottle left from the last time we had it, those in the know will remember that fateful night as it was a pub crawl as well. So about 6 of us finished the rest of the bottle off, it can only be described as a taste between jet fuel and black twislers. I didn't get a chance to drink all my beers. Of all the combinations i tried the one that went into the flask was as follows, one part disarono one part melon liquor, splash of gatorade propel. So with everyone half cut we make way to the first stop. Pam and Katie and my bro kindly drive us so we don't have to cab it. I leave with my car full around 20 to 8pm and the rest shortly after. The pubcrawl ticket says the busses leave promptly at 8 so we thought we were gonna miss the bus, but ,as we soon figured out, the promoters lied so everyone would get there early.

Location : Rum (Rum jungle as i remember it, they have since dropped the jungle)
Time: 8:10pm

I hadn't been there in a while since Jocelyn's 21st, so like 7 months, and it was as bad as i remember. While in line i see a familier head of frizzy hair. I didn't expect to see Kristen there but i guess you run into a bunch of people at these things. She was there with 2 other friends, both dark hair, one with a boyfriend. The one with the boyfriend was with him all night and didn't really say much, they pretty much kept to themselves. The other was friendly and as i rememeber pretty good looking. As we all filed into the empty club the guy running the thing was drawing some numbers on eveyones hand, what kind of promoter doesn't have wristbands? We spend about 45 minutes mingling inside, and this would be our first meeting with green shirt guy, then we all leave for a stop on whyte. But not before some weird contest where 2 dudes strip to their underwear and look for a shot of whatever somewhere in the bar.

Location : Stoli's on whyte
Time: 9:30 ish

Still kinda early so its not really full, which can be a good thing for those who have been in stoli's before. when we get in the coat check girl gives us some sort of shot, really sweet not really worth drinking to get drunk. I have probably had about 6-7 beers at this point, plus the couple shots of absinthe, at stoli's i have a couple tasty pussy shots, broken down golf carts, gladiators, etc. I see Pat at the bar and the chick puts down 6 shot glasses and fill them with tequlia. Francine and Pat then proceed to slam them down 3 each. I fully expect Francine to be right fucked in about 20 minutes considering the girl probably weighs about 105, but no the girl can hold her booze even after a couple vodka red bulls at Pat. It was not my goal to make Francine vommit but i did want to see what a shot of Chartreuse would do to her. For those of you that have tasted it, its worse then the absinthe we were drinking earlier. She took it like a seasoned drinker and earned my respect. While at Stollies we run into Chris Epton which is weird since he was the kid brother of good friend i haven't seen in a while. He was nice enough to lend me a smoke. Jessie meanwhile is grinding with Chantel, i can't tell if she is drunk but i do know shes into Jessie. I don't know how long we are there but as soon as they announce the bus is here we finish our drinks and board the bus. Next stop downtown e-town.

Location: Globe
Time : maybe 11pm

On any given Friday or Saturday night if you drive by the globe it is almost certain that you will see a bunch of busses lined up infront or in the adjacent parking lot. It seems that it's a popular place for pubcrawls. That also means that if you get there when everyone else gets there like 11, you'll probabbly have to wait in line since there are already pubcrawl people inside. Inside they greet us with another sweet concoction, i doubt there was a lot of alcohol in it. By now the globe is pretty busy. Most of the people on the pubcrawl spread out and check out the crowd then seem to find each other again. Its a busy night and it looks like they only have 2 bartenders working. It takes me like 10 minutes to get a beer and matches. I don't understand why most clubs in the city seems to be short bartenders, at any place on whyte i could get a drink in 30 seconds. Also the bartenders are making drinks for the waitresses at the same time. I've always seen waitresses at a busy bar a waste. There is barely any place to walk and they are carrying drinks around for people too lazy to go to the bar themselves. I understand the need for them in a place where the majority of the people there are sitting like in a martini bar but not in a place that is almost at capacity where people can't walk. I take my beer upstairs and go to the smoking balcony. I'm not a regular smoker i used to have a couple if Korie was out with us since he was the only one that regularly smoked but he has sinced quit so now i smoke even less. I still had that cig that i got at stollies so i smoked that, outside i run into Kristine a friend of Korie and Denny's from telus. She's fun to hang out with and we chatted for a bit while she smoked as well. I went back downstairs to meet the other. I guess at one point Chimko and Katrina were there but i didn't see them. Jessie just like before was grinding with Chantel on the dancefloor, will he get some tonight? We'll find out later. Sometime later i run into Kristine again and she is with some friends, i see Ruben nearby and ask him to hit on her hot friend which i know has a boyfriend standing right near us. I just wanted to see what would happen after like 2 minutes talking to her he stepped in and said something to Ruben, we laughed i think he apologized and we left. I spent the rest of the time drinking more MGD and hanging out with Jonah, Pat, Fred, and the 3 old navy girls. Curiously they were performing high kicks, and they were trying to figure out who could kick the highest. Well i joined in and as it turns out i kick the highest. It was time to leave and i was feeling pretty hungry. Everyone was boarding and i spot the funky pickle so i run there grab a slice of spinach and something pizza and board the bus. I must have shared the pizza with 5 different people onthe bus, each taking a big bite out of my slice. The busride to cowboys was a mess, people trying to walk around on the bus and falling over, by this time i had drank and shared the contants of my flask away, mostly to cute girls who thought it tasted like some sort of jello. I think the best part of pubcrawls are the bus rides, you cram like 50 people drunk people onto a yellow bus and fun things start happening.

Location: Cowboys
Time: no idea

I don't know why there was a stop here, or why this place still exists for that matter. No one goes here and as expected it was pretty empty inside. By this point i don't want any more to drink and i'm in that state where i just sit there, kinda like i'm stoned but i'm not. Everyone else is the same, people on the pubcrawl were pretty much partied out and eveyone was just sitting on couches and at tables just chilling out. Keith and his bunch left here when we got on the bus for the last stop, come to think of it we should have left as well.

Location: Rum
Time: maybe 1:30am

On the way in i see Simon dragging out this hystical blond chick. Not sure what her issue was but all he was saying was "just leave, just leave". Rum was packed, fillied with the usual club going types. Crowds of asians in one corner, browns in another, wandering italians, groups of urban guys (read black). It seems like the type of place where a fight could break out at any given moment, a totally baseless fight because of a dirty look or a bump of shoulders, not really my type of place. But i did run into some black guys i did know, the Mahary brothers, I saw Simon when we first got in. Of our short time there we just sat on some couches and talked. Jessie meanwhile was making out with Chantel. By then most of the pubcrawlers were all over the place or had gone home. In the end it was just pat, jonah, fred, jessie, kevin, and the 3 old navy girls. All us guys cab it back to pats place. On the cab ride home Pat and i proceed to berate Jessie about not taking Chantel home some of the dirtiest shit you could think of was comming out of out mouths for pretty much the eitire ride home. We get out at Pats and the rest of us get into Jonahs car and go to tims.

Location: Tims
Time: late

I get this soup and sandwich deal, the soup was so damn tasty. Jessie was making note of how good that soup was as well, being that late and that hungry made the soup even better. The sandwich....not so good. After eating the sandwich i realized i got a turkey and bacon sandwich, but there was no turkey in my sandwich, oh well. I didn't win that roll up the rim thing either. Those rims are such a pain in the ass, they should use those pealy things that Mc dicks uses for those monopoly pieces instead

Location: Home
Time: really late

Plop into bed knowing i have a business law case to write that is due for the tuesday. Turns out i wouldn't write it until monday afternoon.