Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Friday Night 5/16-
(all pictures of this night Adrian is supposed to get to me)
We had plans for Adrian's friend to stop by around 8 so we both showered up and I was able to get in a little bit of a nap beforehand. We set around for an hour until 8 screwing around with the sensitivity on the bike alarms and taking a walk around looking for this mysterious Houlihan's that the GPS said was only .2 miles away. Never found the damn thing. 8 came and went and Adrian talked to her again and she said it was taking her longer than expected. She showed up around 9:30 and we left in her car to go get something to eat. We stopped at a barbecue spot, but I pointed out that they were closing in about 20 minutes and we should go somewhere else. I asked about finding some place that was a bar and grill and a little more fun than just a restaurant. She drove us to a short strip of college bars/restaurants and we went in a place to eat that had a live band outside on the patio. Very cool place, but I can't remember the name of it. Had a few Woodchuck ciders and an awesome ruben on the waiter's recommendation. Adrian had never had a Woodchuck and now he has a new favorite beer since he did. There was good conversation and with a little buzz I was contributing quite a bit to it actually. Met a couple friends of hers and I had a crazy girl trying to get me to come talk to her.
Paradise Park-
This place was in a long stretch of bars on both sides of the street. There are colleges all over this place so the bars were very cool and there were friendly people everywhere. There was a bit of gridlock on the street and LOTS of cops on bicycles which I wasn't happy to see because I knew I'd be pissing outside of the car if we parked behind a building after sitting in traffic so long. Cops on bicycles are sneaky. So Paradise Park is made to be like a trailer park. The front windows of the place slide open like a huge sliding glass door and the floor of the place is putt putt green astro turf stuff. Many beers were had here. There was also a live band that was pretty good and besides the required country fodder they were playing they often played some good requested songs. Later in the night a guy came out of the audience and sang Santeria perfect which was a good song to hear. We were ushered out of the bar sometime after 3 and headed back to the car. A few minutes after we left it was apparent that Adrian's friend shouldn't be driving so we pulled over and he took the wheel. She instantly went to sleep. You know I've never been to Nashville and neither has he...... Where the hell are we and where are we going?!? We decided to get on the highway running around the city and look for the exit that we turned off of earlier in the day to the hotel. We didn't see it for awhile and we decided to pull off and try for directions again after the first time didn't lead us anywhere. As we were on the offramp the car ran out of gas. I saw that the gas gauge wasn't functioning before, but figured that surely she would have kept a good amount of gas in the car. Guess not. So here we were having all drank, lost, and out of gas. Thankfully there was a gas station about a 1/4 mile down the road so I gave Adrian some cash and he took off on foot. About a minute later a cop rolled by...... I thought that Adrian would come back in the back of that car, but he didn't. He came back and we fueled up after awhile found our way and I was able to get to sleep after having been up since 3:30 the night before. The pics will be posted when I can.
(all pictures of this night Adrian is supposed to get to me)
We had plans for Adrian's friend to stop by around 8 so we both showered up and I was able to get in a little bit of a nap beforehand. We set around for an hour until 8 screwing around with the sensitivity on the bike alarms and taking a walk around looking for this mysterious Houlihan's that the GPS said was only .2 miles away. Never found the damn thing. 8 came and went and Adrian talked to her again and she said it was taking her longer than expected. She showed up around 9:30 and we left in her car to go get something to eat. We stopped at a barbecue spot, but I pointed out that they were closing in about 20 minutes and we should go somewhere else. I asked about finding some place that was a bar and grill and a little more fun than just a restaurant. She drove us to a short strip of college bars/restaurants and we went in a place to eat that had a live band outside on the patio. Very cool place, but I can't remember the name of it. Had a few Woodchuck ciders and an awesome ruben on the waiter's recommendation. Adrian had never had a Woodchuck and now he has a new favorite beer since he did. There was good conversation and with a little buzz I was contributing quite a bit to it actually. Met a couple friends of hers and I had a crazy girl trying to get me to come talk to her.
Paradise Park-
This place was in a long stretch of bars on both sides of the street. There are colleges all over this place so the bars were very cool and there were friendly people everywhere. There was a bit of gridlock on the street and LOTS of cops on bicycles which I wasn't happy to see because I knew I'd be pissing outside of the car if we parked behind a building after sitting in traffic so long. Cops on bicycles are sneaky. So Paradise Park is made to be like a trailer park. The front windows of the place slide open like a huge sliding glass door and the floor of the place is putt putt green astro turf stuff. Many beers were had here. There was also a live band that was pretty good and besides the required country fodder they were playing they often played some good requested songs. Later in the night a guy came out of the audience and sang Santeria perfect which was a good song to hear. We were ushered out of the bar sometime after 3 and headed back to the car. A few minutes after we left it was apparent that Adrian's friend shouldn't be driving so we pulled over and he took the wheel. She instantly went to sleep. You know I've never been to Nashville and neither has he...... Where the hell are we and where are we going?!? We decided to get on the highway running around the city and look for the exit that we turned off of earlier in the day to the hotel. We didn't see it for awhile and we decided to pull off and try for directions again after the first time didn't lead us anywhere. As we were on the offramp the car ran out of gas. I saw that the gas gauge wasn't functioning before, but figured that surely she would have kept a good amount of gas in the car. Guess not. So here we were having all drank, lost, and out of gas. Thankfully there was a gas station about a 1/4 mile down the road so I gave Adrian some cash and he took off on foot. About a minute later a cop rolled by...... I thought that Adrian would come back in the back of that car, but he didn't. He came back and we fueled up after awhile found our way and I was able to get to sleep after having been up since 3:30 the night before. The pics will be posted when I can.
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