Fruity Drinks are OK if at the Beach

Pretty much just had one of the most fun weekends I can remember. For some reason, some of my college friends and I waited almost 4 years to get back together for the first time. We headed to Nags Head. It was Owen coming in from NYC, Corey (Blake/Babe #1/Ehhhh) coming in from Chicago, Robert coming in from Baltimore, and the Salty Donkey from DC or Baltimore, or wherever he lives now. Dooley Show and the Pat Monster were there in spirit. Actually more than that with all of that "what up chiefs" and Pat stories.

Anyway between all of the beer die, grilling, cards on the back deck, several thousand Busch Lights, a cheese slam (don't ask), tumbles down steps, and several pukings in a Wings parking lot (classy), were banana daiqiries (sp?). Never had one before.

Once in a while life throws you a little gem; in this case, Scott Owen threw one.

Ingredients per batch:

6 Bananas
~9 oz light rum
3 tbs Triple Sec
Lime Juice
Ice
Floater of Goslings rum on top (just enough to push you over the edge). Forego the lime wedge unless you're propping your dignity on the edge of the glass with it.

Just get yourself a constant flow of these all day and cap it all off with some reebs. I can't believe we were actually wondering why none of us could remember eating dinner that night.





There's definitely not enough dude in this hot tub.






Poor planning for the ride home left Corey in the back seat of a Subaru with an acoustic guitar and a 140lb Newfoundland dog.







Here's Darren with perma-grin on cruise control. In this picture, his subconscious sees cards, a table, and a drink in front of him, but his conscious really has no idea what's going on.
For some reason, Friday, he flew to Raleigh from B-more, rented a car, then drove from Raleigh to OBX. Sunday he did it all over again. He did make light of only being there for 36 hours or so by appropriately cracking his first brew circa 9:30AM. Respek.


I'm hoping we'll be able to do these weekends once or twice a year, if my body can handle it. I thought it was appropriate that I had a fever my first night back, especially since fevers are just your body's way of telling you something is wrong. I'm having trouble figuring out if the wrong part was what I had done to myself all weekend or just the fact that the real world was calling again. RDoug actually gained 6 pounds over the course of those 3 1/2 days--impressive.

All in all, it was great to see these guys and to see that they're all successful and enjoying life.