St. Patrick's Day!

Woke up at 8am, running on four hours of sleep. i knew the day was going to be awesome. i had a miserable sleep too, rich's room was freezing. At least the floor was, i thought i was laying on a giant sheet of ice. It was hard too.

Since i was awake, thought i'd go ahead and get ready to head out. John was already showered and ready to go when i walked into the tv room and joel was actually sleeping...i was sure he was going to play Smash Bros all night. i forgot to bring a banana with me. i was told by a wise Irishman, while eating a cheese steak at Pat's King of Steaks, that college kids don't know how to drink in a serious Irish accent. He then said what you have to do before a day of drinking is to eat a banana to coat the lining of your stomach and then drink a tall glass of water to hydrate you. Then, between every drink you have take a shot of water and you can drink forever...or something like that. i didn't have a banana, so i decided to have a beer.
Rich took forever to get ready, he didn't even know i slept in his room. i'm a ninja like that. So to help pass the time i had a second beer, thinking the more i drink here the less i'll spend during the day, hopefully. We didn't leave the apartment until 9:15 am. At least i got out earlier than the previous week.

Our first stop was the deliciousness that is Wawa for some sandwiches...on the way there we saw an asian kid on a scooter...joel said that was him freshman year scooter-ing everywhere, they were both asian so they looked a like to.The first bar was Cavanaugh's again. When doing the Erin Express you have to start at Cav's, they did start this thing 20 years ago. i thought today was just going to be the Erin Express but recently found out that St. Patrick's day isn't going to be on the 17th this year because the Catholic Church is gangsta and didn't want St. Patty's falling on the monday of the holy week. This hasn't been done since the 1940's, little fun fact for you...though you probably already knew that.

At Cav's i didn't see as many crazies as last week but i did catch this guy with the mohawk and clover shaved in his head...After consuming a few pitches of yuengling and guiness i ran into one of my roommates from sophomore year. Haven't seen Tony for like over a year, that's another great thing about the Erin Express...you run into people you haven't seen in awhile, just hope you don't run into people you don't want to see. Tony might have had a few drinks before snapping this photo...After finishing our pitchers it was time to head a block away to the next bar, Blarney Stone. Blarney Stone is a little crazy because the bar is really small, so they rent some fences and fence off a section of the street outside to expand the bar with numerous port-a-potties. Several places to buy over priced beer within the fenced in area. A six pack was 22 bones, at least the cans were 16 oz. but thats still pretty silly. Joel didn't drink his so that was more booze for me.Wasn't long until i ran into another person i haven't seen for awhile, Kim. She had two beers at this point and said she was already tanked...ridiculous. i wish i could get buzzed on two beers. One of the many pictures taken below...Time for the next bar, Smokey Joe's! Smokey Joe's is just close enough to just walk there and not take the free yellow buses.Apparently rich get violent after a few beers and he charged me...At Smokey Joe's we met up with manthan and lily. Now you may think you have some crazy green thing in your city, but you're not cool unless you have a green beer. So i went ahead and got a pitcher of green beer (Coors with some green food coloring). It was actually pretty lame but at least i can say i had one, too bad i didn't get a good picture of it.Since the odds of an indian knowing another indian are pretty high, whenever an indian walks by when i'm around manthan i always ask him if he knows them. He doesn't appreciate it very much, but this time when i asked if he knew this indian girl that walked by us...just so happen he did! It was his cousin! i knew it was just a matter of time before he knew one.

Ran into Terry and Nicole while getting on the bus to the next stop, haven't seen them for a while either.

The next bar was Tom Hagen's Tavern, we just had one beer here...

The bus out of there took forever, and i was hungry...what would be a better time to eat my lollipop with a scorpion in the center?! While waiting manthan talked to a group of some random girls, one of them said to me,"what's in your lollipop?". "A scorpion". "Ewww, maybe you shouldn't tell anyone that.." And then they stopped talking to us. To think, all this time i thought chicks digged guys that were sucking on scorpions.

While waiting for the bus, manthan decided to go back in the bar and get another beer...while he was in there with lily the bus came and we missed it waiting for him. Bastard. No one felt like waiting 20 more minutes for the next bus so we decided to walk to the next bar, Parkway Bar & Grille. We were all pretty hungry when we got there and went into a deli next door for some food. i was so hungry i squeezed a bunch of mustard on a knife and ate it. manthan did it too but just wasn't as cool as when i did it.

rich got bored and started playing with the salt shaker...

For food i got the hot pastrami sandwich with rye bread...love me some pastrami.
We weren't the only drunks in the deli, there were a group of four guys too. They thought they would be cool and unscrew the pepper and moved to another table so when the waitress cleaned the table the pepper would spill everywhere. Total bastards. After finishing our food we headed next door to bar number five.
While here we sipped on some more miller lite and when we were ready to leave we ran into Pat (aka Jarvis). My crew coach from freshman year. He's pretty mean and he was drunk by this point so he said hello to manthan by slapping him several times. Asked me what i wanted to drink several times, and when i said i wanted a miller he said there was no need to be hostile (and i wasn't) and be got 6 miller lites for all of us. Pat is so nice to take photos of.

We soon lost pat and his group and we started walking. We didn't know where we were going but thought we would head towards center city.While walking i broke out the scorpion again, i had it in my pocket...here you can see i finally got to the scorpion and its resting on my tongue before getting consumed. It didn't really taste like anything. It was kind of crunchy...i hope the stinger wasn't still on it.

John was hungry again so we stopped into Qdoba. While rich, john, and i were there manthan and lily went across the street to hit up another bar. After john was done eating we met back up with manthan and lily and headed back towards university city. We were going to go to another bar, Slainte, but the wanted a 5 bone cover..forget that. Not paying a cover on St. Patty's day, that's just silly. So we kept walking until we got back on Drexel's campus. While walking past Mario the Magnificent...he grabbed my head with his claw.
Lily bounced to meet up with some other friends and the rest of us went back to John and Rich's apartment and ordered some food. i took a short nap because i was beat. Graham soon arrived with jules and asked if we wanted to see a movie. Manthan was about to go home, but when he was just out the door he got invited to hang out with some girls he had just said 'hi' to and decided to stay a little bit longer. He chilled at the apartment while five of us went to The Bridge to see 10,000 BC. As usual we were the only non-black people in the movie theater. A woman sitting a few seats over from rich was nice enough to talk on her phone for an hour during the movie. People were constantly getting up out of their seats leaving, and coming back in. You would think that everyone would try to pay attention to the movie since they did pay a ridiculous 12 bones per ticket. The movie wasn't spectacular either.

After the movie we headed back to the apartment, watched the tube a bit...john wasn't there and he said i could crash on his bed, once 2am rolled around i hopped in that bed and passed out. Slept like a baby...