Parade Day Update.....

Parade day was almost over a month ago and I posted a blog on here about going. I also said that I was going to post an update on how the parade went and I never did that (So I am doing it now)...The parade was a blast. I went with my husband and 3 of our friends. We started the day by going to a local pizzeria to get something to eat and that was also where we had our 1st alcoholic beverage (this was around 12:30 p.m.) I think that maybe I should have stopped @ one. Then we went in search of a bathroom (because the line for the bathrooms in the pizzeria was out the door). So we traveled the streets of Scranton, PA (on foot) and finally found some port-o-potties. The line for these was not too bad, so we stood there and waited our turns. After we all did our business we headed to a bar called Trax, that is located in the Radisson Hotel. We had a few drinks there and stood out on the porch and watched the parade. After being there for awhile we asked someone to take a group pic (we were all still sober at the time) and then we took a walk around the streets in search of another bar that wasn't too busy (which is really not any bar on the day when Scranton paints the town green). Finally we stood in line for a bar called the Banshee. We were in line for about 10 minutes. We all showed the man at the door our ID's, got our hands stamped and proceeded into the bar. We ordered our drinks and all hung around the bar. This place was so packed that if you moved you would not get another spot. We all settled into one spot and tried to all stay together so we wouldn't get lost. As we were all standing around the bar we ordered another round and my husband and our friend Steve ordered some kind of drink with grape vodka in it. They were having a good time and drinking down the drinks and Bobby (my husband) was almost at the bottom of his and he said to me "look in the bottom of my cup"... So I took the cup and looked in the bottom and in the bottom of the cup was 3 or 4 fruit flies. At first we thought that it was just pieces of grape from the vodka, but then he showed it to the bartender and his eyes got real big. So the bartender told him that he could have whatever drink that he wanted for free (of course he should have did that), he could have had a law suit against that place. It was very unsanitary. After being at the Banshee for awhile and all putting a pretty good buzz on we decided to leave and try to find another place that we could go to that wouldn't be "as busy".... So we headed along on our adventure. We were going to go to Flashbacks, til we found out that it was $15 to get in the doors. We kept walking down the street and then went to a little bar on a corner that our friend Bob knew about. It wasn't that busy, (mostly older people). We had a few drinks there and then finally around 7:00 p.m. we decided that it would be time to head back up to our way. So we had the bartender call us a cab. By the way , we took the bus down to Scranton and took a cab back (no one wanted to chance drinking and driving). We sat in the bar and waited for the cab to come and again, took another group pic (only this one was less sober than the first one that we took). The cab finally came about 15 minutes later and we all piled in it... We took some pics on the way home in the cab, and they all came out really funny.. Someone said something funny and I started laughing and I snorted...OMG....I was so embarrassed. Even though everyone found that it was so amusing. The cab driver that we had was awesome. We had him drop us off at Ken's Bar in Olyphant (where we had round 2 of parade day). We also tried to get him to come in and have a drink with us, but he was still on duty for hours after that, he said that he would have, but he would have got into trouble. So at Ken's we played some shuffleboard and had a few more drinks. We all hung out there for about 2-3 more hours and then everyone was ready to get home and crawl into their beds. So Bobby and I left and went to the Village to get something to eat. Then we came home and I hit my pillow, and then right after that I think that I fell asleep, or fell into a slight comma from all the alcohol that I comsumed on this day. Overall parade day was a fun experience and I am counting down the days til next year.