Category Archives: Holiday

St. Patrick's Day.

This past Saturday was another successful St. Patrick’s Day (past St. Pat’s: 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008). Like last year we headed to Ginger’s Ale House where Dan was able to secure our table at 9:30am. Except for the occasional pub crawl the bar wasn’t nearly as packed as was last year. We managed to last about 10 hours at Ginger’s before the crowd broke up and some of us found our way to Finley Dunnes. As in years past there was a black eye and a fish fry on Sunday.

Various parts of the day that were of interest:

Gary Busey making an appearance.
Ted ‘Million Dollar Man’ Dibiase making an appearance.
A raging makeout session at the bar in the middle of the day.
The time when Jeff insulted the honor of some woman (contrary to popular believe Chivalry is clearly not dead).
The entire afternoon when some douchbag decided to play depressing Irish folk songs for several hours and Nick Barbone kept attacking the jukebox in response.

A good time was had by all.

Below is the last photograph of James & Josh, the time stamp reads 8:59pm… there’s no telling what really happened after that point in the night.

*The rest of the photographs can be found on Flickr.

NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field.

Yesterday Julie and I went to the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. To say the least it was amazing. The first period was worth the (steep) price of admission. The Blackhawks ended up falling to the Redwings 6-4. The weather wasn’t unbearable and our seats were blocked from the wind. We had a really good view of the entire ice and the seat next to us was empty. The opening festivities were a little over the top (introducing Chicago Sports Legends twice) but once the game got going it was awesome. The first period was pretty much non-stop action with a Detroit player getting upended into the Hawks bench.

Truly Classic.

*Side Note:

The rest of my photographs are on Flickr.

After the game we rallied back at my place and deep fried a turkey (and grilled a pork loin).

2nd Annual Santa Pub Tour.

For those of you who don’t know every year on the Friday before Christmas Santa goes on a bender one last time. This night of drinking has turned into the Annual Santa Pub Tour. This year’s tour was a huge success. Unlike last year, we managed to stick to our tight schedule and hit all of the stops by 2am. Thanks to all those who came out and to everyone of my little helpers. As you can see in the photographs below the costumes are getting better every year.