Considering it was the one Sunday a month that I get off, I knew I couldn't waste it. And waste it I did not, although wasted I was. Starts off with a club run in the morning followed by an afternoon Nini's with Jarles, Gavroche and Glace's friend Jen from the East Coast. I'm still feeling the late evening at the I from Saturday, so I start off with Katie's special, and I'm not talking about the breakfast sandwich....straight to Mimosa. It's midway through said Mimosa that Glace enters her, "we should go get drunk today" spiel. This isn't the first time she's played this game.
We decide that given the weather and her visitor, heading to the city is certainly what we should do. Around 3 Jarles, Gavroche, Arturro, Jen and myself head up there, loaded with two travel mugs of Rodkas, and start off at Zeitgeist. Out on the patio, we kill a few drinks, a j, and start up a lively conversation with two guys, one of which happened to be at the Throw Me the Statue show the night before. We chat it up for a while, Gavroche going full bore into his MMM speech, and after a bit more networking we take off for Dolores Park. On warm sunny days in the city, nothing brings out the people like Dolores Park. Everyone's on the grass, drinking, smoking, throwing frisbees, listening to music, dancing and generally kicking back. A beautiful scene. Mau and VMez have joined us at this point, and I sneak off for a few to meet up with The Choosy, T, Tri and a few others who are on the other side of the green. I feel like I have two families.
It's when I'm back with family 1 on the green that I bring out the shots of Patron I had been hiding in my backpack. Glace and I split one and the afternoon gets immediately warmer. We decide it's time to head on, and walk to the Dolores Park cafe where Mau goes inside to use the restroom and the rest of us start debating cab rides to the Marina. The next 30 seconds are probably the quickest decision making I've seen from a group of people.
As we agree we need cabs, and that we'll need two, at that exact moment we see two cabs, heading in opposite directions on 17th. I whistle at one, who sees us and stops, and then I whistle at the second one, who also stops. Of course, they've both stopped at almost the exact same spot, in opposite directions, on a green light, blocking traffic in both directions as we all run and jump randomly into the cabs. But Mau is still in side, Gavroche recognizes this, and all of a sudden, both cabs are driving away, Gavroche is standing on the sidewalk, and we have absolutely no idea about where to tell the cab driver to go. Glace calls Chaz who can't stop laughing on the phone because we just went from standing to in two separate cabs with no set destination in about 20 seconds flat. We decide to meet over in the Marina.
Once there, we take to the green for some frisbee throwing and general sunny laziness. The current mood of the group is pretty faded, as we've been consistently drinking beer, vodka and tequila for the last several hours in the sun. It's time for dinner now, so we head over to Betelnut, who tells us there will be an hour wait, and then skip over to Osha, which can seat us immediately. I sneak away from the table, run down the street and eat a burrito. I order it standard...steak, sour cream, guacamole, cheese. The lady making it is a traditional woman from the looks of her, and when she sees my ticket, I see a look of disdain on her face, and she shakes her head back and forth disapprovingly as she puts the cheese down. I've never been ridiculed for my burrito choice before by the person making it. It's a new perspective...
Back at Osha, it's more drinks and some great food before the cabs take us back to the car and the car takes us back to B-Game. I watch tv while finishing the last mini bottle of Patron...up next...IOWA!
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