I just wrote a kick ass post but accidentally deleted it so this is all you get the 2nd time around.
Will attempt to recreate it tomorrow
We started out the night at Hank’s which is located off the Lobby of the Stillwell Hotel. As soon as I walked in it was time for the group to transition to the 2nd bar of the night, the Figueroa Hotel Pool Patio. We sat outside for a bit then were shuttled inside where 6 of us lounged on the canopied bed. It was nice. Part of our group was very content to stay whilst others were determined to create this elaborate pub crawl atmosphere. Those of us who were perfectly happy in our surroundings were shuttled out onto the street and we were off to the 3rd destination of the night, the Golden Gopher.
The GG was nice and chill on this particular Wednesday, just how I like it. There was a friendly face behind the bar which always adds a little something-something to the vibe. Again, we all crowded onto a big community couch and continued with our quite lively discussion of various odd topics. And once again we were rousted from our comfy roost after a bit to continue on to the 4th bar of the night, Craby Joe’s. By this point our outing had become an actual pub crawl but most of us were drinking water….sans for the ONE person who didn’t have to drive NOR get up very early in the morning. Of course, this was also the person who kept trying to get us to keep drinking with him so a few had to appease the beast for fear of disastrous repercussions. One drink at Craby’s and then we said our heartfelt goodbye’s to Ginni, the most wonderful bartender I’ve ever met to date in Los Angeles, and were off to the 5th bar of the night, King Eddie’s.
During the walk to King Eddie's we encountered the backside of Jim and Celia’s residence and attempted to encourage them to join us, but the lights were out and they no doubt were sleeping seeing as how they just returned from Germany this past weekend. A few years ago it would have been easy to get Celia out for a drink at the drop of a hat but now that she’s hitched and has the cutest puppy on the face of the earth I can totally understand why she’d be curled up with her men, sleeping like a baby versus gallivanting around town like we were at that hour.
Upon arrival at KE I immediately felt like I had been there before however that’s probably due to the whole filming aspect of most places in Downtown. Or maybe it reminded me of my college days down in the LBC. Hard to tell really. While enjoying a moment to sit and take a load off of my aching feet, lest I remind you of the non-appropriate footwear I was sporting, a girl in our party decided that she was tired and was going to walk back to her car. By herself. Which was conveniently located many blocks away near our starting point for the night. We all attempted to nix that idea but she was adamant about leaving, so unfortunately we left as quickly as we arrived.
During the long walk back to our cars we stopped into Casey’s to grab a water and use the facilities. The door guy was kind enough to let us in even though they had technically closed for the evening. Continuing on after the brief rest stop Eric and I accidentally took a 3 block detour as we were so engaged in conversation we took an inadvertent right when we shouldn’t have adding approximately .5 of a mile to the trek total.
I like how at the beginning of the night I claimed that I was only gonna go to the Figueroa Hotel but instead ended up going along for the entire ride so to speak. Guess I'm a sucker for a good time.
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