Luck 'o the Irish

It's not even technically St. Patrick's Day yet...but I've already had one of my best ever. Yesterday, a bunch of my friends and I attended a bar crawl to celebrate the holiday. It was thrown by some of our other friends....and it was one of the best planned bar crawls ever. They thought of everything....yes...a bunch of GUYS. Impressive, right?!

The event started bright and early at 9:00am. The guys made everyone (all 40-50 of us on the crawl) breakfast and mimosas. We ate, drank, played some beer pong, and just generally got in the party spirit very quickly. Each of us attending got a gift bag when we arrived...which included (among other things) a bar crawl tshirt with our names on the back. Love it!

We then proceeded into the streets of Redondo Beach to cause mayhem. It was the perfect day...blue sky, sunny, 70 degrees...just tops. We were a big enough group that we pretty much looked like a parade everywhere we went. And the fact that a bunch of us were wearing whistles (and not afraid to use them in the slightest) didn't help. (Main whistle rule for the day? If you were going to use "that's what she said" at any point, you HAD to blow your whistle first. Soooooo many throughout the day, of course.)

LK had her tiny, little St. Paddy's Day mug-on-a-necklace. And she was nice enough to let us all use it too!

DS stole me a crab from Jersey's bar. I carried that crab around for the whole rest of the day...and everyone kept saying that I got crabs at the bar. Real funny, guys.

Other highlights included: lots of dancing, chanting before each bar change ("When I say hip-hop, you say what's up...hip-hop...what's up!!"), super sticky Girl Scout Cookie shots, virtual bowling, bathroom photos, debates on NYC vs. LA, everyone hugging everyone else (so much love), directing traffic illegally in the streets, the super drunk British guy who followed us everywhere, and free chips and salsa at Suzy's. All in all, an amazing day. I lasted (no joke) for a whole 15 hours yesterday (birthday party at a bar in Santa Monica last night AFTER the crawl all day!), and pretty much slept harder last night than I have in a long time. Woke up to be confused by the time change....(did anyone else not know Daylight Savings was last night?!)...but also to happily sigh, and take some Aspirin, and head out for a walk by the ocean with a friend...and think about what a wonderfully perfect day yesterday was. Cheers!