Ahhh, my fist day of actual vacation from ASQ came this week and I took advantage of the long weekend. On Friday it started with a Brewers game. Babcock hooked up Todd, Steph, Luedke and I with some tickets to one of the luxury boxes at Miller Park. Not only were the seats great but the thing was stacked to the hilt with free booze and food for everyone. The group took full advantage of the amenities and I have to admit I didn’t watch much of the game because I was in deep conversation with those around me. In the end the Crew lost but who goes to watch the games anyway. Once the game was over we all went to Mo’s for a couple pints of Guinness. There was a two person band there that had a drum machine do all the backing music but they did some awesome covers. After that we headed to the Metro and finished up the night with some martinis.

On Saturday Jocelyn and I had our traditional Memorial Day weekend grill out. We invited Todd and Steph over and we relaxed the day away. We had marinated kabobs, German potato salad, chopped salad, and most important of all, fresh fruit daiquiris. The weather was cool and rainy but the men braved the cold and grilled the manly food to perfection. The next couple hours were spent relaxing and sucking on daiquiris. At about nine Tasha and her new/old boyfriend came over and joined the fiesta. After the Chappelle show and Insomniac marathons we headed to the High Hat on Brady to meet Luedke. The way to the High Hat was quite the adventure. Tasha’s male friend’s Mustang got stuck in reverse and we couldn’t parallel park the thing. After some torque on the shifter we cracked the thing out of reverse and into first. After destroying is transmission and driving around in first looking for a parking space (he couldn’t shift out of it) we managed to find a spot. One problem still existed though, we had to parallel park the car. So we pulled up to the spot and I got out and pushed the car backwards into the spot. Once that thing was parked it was no longer my worry and it was time to have some fun. All the craziness caught up with me the second I stepped foot inside the High Hat. As soon as I entered the bar I hit the proverbial wall. I had one beer, talked to some college buddies, and headed home.

Sunday, or Saturday #2 as I like to call it, consisted of a second Brewers game. The weather was absolutely horrible. Torrential rain and thunder were the weather of the day. After confirming with Todd that we were going to go to the Crew game, bad weather or not, we headed off. I thought for sure it would be us and the players at this game but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Upon arriving at the stadium we discovered that there were quite a lot of diehard people already in the parking lot. We were on the east side of the stadium so we took our three beers and headed to Gantner’s Gardens shelters. Every shelter was packed elbow to elbow with crazy people tailgating before the game. Our shelter was no less crazy than the others. One guy accidentally started the rubberized bench on fire with his grill so we got a nice whiff of toxic smoke. Another observation I didn’t understand was seeing all the people taking their umbrellas to go pee in the bushes. Don’t you think you’d get plenty wet from walking through the foot high grass and standing in a bush? Well after I pondered this questions for what seemed like minutes we finished our beers and headed in to the stadium and the safety of the roof. We spent almost the entire game in TGIFs drinking yards and talking to Delahunt’s parents and one of my other buddies that we happened to run into. Another loss for the Brewers but the game was a great was to spend a Sunday. After the game we headed back downtown and got Edwardo’s with Todd and Steph. I then finished the weekend the way all weekends should be finished, with a three hour nap. Monday was spent doing nothing, the way all days off should be spent. A great weekend, I wish they were all three days.