Celebrity Sighting

You know, its not so much that drinking Budweiser deuce-deuces are economical, but rather, you just never know how long the BART train is gonna to take. So, when Klover and I snagged three of them from the surprisingly well stocked liquor store on 2nd Street near Market, it was because the actual time it would take to get from there to a margarita at El Zarape Room was unclear. On the escalator up to Mission Street, a familiar couple turned around and asked me if I used to bartend at Linda's in Chapel Hill?!? It was my first celebrity sighting.

Alcohol managed to distill itself into everything this weekend. Happy hour at Irish Bank sank into dinner and cocktails at Aziza, which morphed into more cocktails and tequila shots at Harry's. I'm embarassed to report that after our insane taxi driver ran atleast three stoplights (at our prompting...) to get us to Union Street, we ended up at the worst bar in San Francisco. BarNone. I asked my friend Halo to please put a hex on me, thus never allowing me to enter that place again. Imagine the worst college bar you ever had to suffer through, add 10 years and 20 lbs to all the patrons, and there ya go.

How we persuaded Lambo to drive us to Sonoma that next morning, I'm still not sure. Maybe since he was steady guzzling water at the last two bars before secretly slipping out to go home the previous evening defaulted him as navigator. Wine tastings are like thinking that you are going to the emporer's temple for dinner, then somehow ending up at PF Chang's. You recognize all the people because you giggled at them in the airport or got stuck in line behind them at the mall. The wine-tasting girl at Imagery, Ginelle, flashed us the cutest smile and it was impossible not to buy a bottle of the Melbac. Gloria Ferrer allowed us a fond farewell to Sonoma, and two more bottles of champagne were a nice way to cap the afternoon. Fortunately, that was just the beginning of the evening. The short version is Kaboom / fireworks / salsa dancing / head lamps / Bender's / late nite.