A Night Out on the Town ! ! ! !

So, let me start with this lovely picture that was taken at the end of our night....

(and if you can guess which one is me, you get a prize !)

The night started with me being stuck in traffic and having to meet everyone at the restaurant. (And, as a side note, I hadn't been feeling well last week, and I was still not 100% great that night, but I was going to go come hell or high water - Mel had had enough people bail on her at the last minute !) (Also, poor Mel was on antibiotics, so she couldn't DRINK at her own party ! So we determined we'll just have to have another one for her after the wedding when she's feeling better !)
The restaurant group was considerably larger than the Hoboken group. Literally, the majority of her bridal party showed up for dinner but did not come out with us. Dinner was fun - our friend, H, made it which TOTALLY made Mel's night and she and I got to catch up which was a LOT of fun ! :)
We did a "guess who bought you which thong" game that one of the girls had come up with whereas she had to figure out who gave her which thong based on the wrapping, the thong itself, or both. There was a rather creepy guy in a booth behind our table, who was with his wife, and he was WAY too interested in this game, let me tell you! One of the girls got a picture of him lurking even ! HA !
So, after dinner, we went back to the hotel and the limo was waiting for us. We'd gotten a stretch and were rearing to go. The first club we got to wouldn't let us in, regardless of our excellent attempts to convince them. They were "at capacity" so we headed on to another club. I have to say, if a group of girls go out to a club and one of them has a tiara on her head and a feather boa around her neck, men are on that "decorated" girl like white on rice ! ! ! We managed to land a group of older guys who were, for some reason, not deterred by our lack of willingness to allow them into our circle. They started asking how they could get our booby beads away from us. Mel was too nice - all one of the guys had to do was lift up his shirt and she handed over her beads immediately. So, when they approached me I figured they needed a CHALLENGE !
I told them that they had to hand over their underwear.
They wouldn't do it.
I said that they had to go into the bathroom, strip down to their underwear, and then run through the club.
They still weren't biting.
So I made one of them bend over and shake his ass while his friend smacked it.
THAT was worth booby beads ! ! ! !
:)
The only other guy who got beads off of me was the one and only guy who congratulated Mel, rather than saying "I'm sorry", when she told him she was getting married.
We got back to the hotel around 2am and stumbled up to our rooms.
There was some drama - what with 8 diverse girls drunk off their asses - but it eventually settled down and we fell all out.
The sad thing is that I was like the adult of the evening. I was the one herding the girls back into the limo when it was time to go, doing a head count to assure we didn't forget anyone. I was also the one who had to take the money away from Mel's sister at the end of the night to count out the total for the limo driver - making sure he was paid what he was suppposed to be getting paid and that the money count was correct.
I was up at 7:00 the next morning - rearing to go.
(One of things that does NOT make me very popular is that I don't get hangovers and that I'm usually up at the crack of dawn, happy as a lark.)
I made myself go back to sleep for another hour and then determined I'd just watch t.v. until someone woke up (I didn't want to leave without saying goodbye). So, around 9-ish I got dressed and, as I was finishing putting my things in my bag, Mel's sister's cell phone alarm went off and she woke up.
WHOO HOO ! I could go home ! ! ! !
:)
So, I thanked her for having invited me and told her that I had a really good time, etc.
Then, on my way home, I stopped off and picked up bagels and creamcheese and o.j. for J and I along with the Sunday paper. It was really good to be home. I hadn't been feeling physically too well as of late and, I wouldn't have missed Mel's party for the world, but I really just wanted to rest. I spent the day yesterday slogging around the house, my stomach not quite right and, when waking up this morning had such an upset stomach that I opted to call out sick from work to give myself one more day to try to shake the frickin' stomach bug I seem to have gotten.
I SO hate feeling like crap !
At least her night was a good one and we got a lot of great pictures.
I have to exchange some pics with Mel's sister as she was taking some too - so maybe if I end up with any more good shots I'll post them.
:)