crawlin was a success

Saturday night was, well great. as i mentioned before, you must dress like santa and hit as many bars in downtown reno as you can. the catch, well, instead of just stumbling around like a drunk, a portion of the proceeds went to the food bank. so we were doing a good cause as well. We dressed up like santa and his "helper" my costume actually was FREAKING AMAZING. yeah. except i wore the tall boots. yeah, my feet really hurt. but we met up with some friends.

This is Erika (a friend of Kristi's) she was dressed like a Reindeer Yaay!

Andy and Kristi. They were mr. and mrs. liberty clause. andy's says he is the one that sneaks back down your chimney after you get presents and takes 10%

this strapping lad is Billy. He was "dirtbag" santa.
but we all called him biker santa.
complete with chaps and all.

and we come to MATT. he is in Andys band. He is grumpy santa.
no, just angry cuz we had to wait 3 hours for a beer!
someone GET THIS SANTA A BEER!

we started at the CLUB UNDERGROUND. there were some people there, not too many, so drinks were pretty easy to come by. that was about the only place though... next door is a place called "BLISS". as we were getting ready to go into the joint, we hear "i just wanna dance, and THAT looks like the place to be" if anyone has ever heard the skit that dane cook does about "Dancing" well, you will find this hilarous. Joe and i did. we are still laughing. and this place WAS the place to dance. sadly, it was NOT the place to get a drink. who only has one bartender on when there are 5,000 santas running around? hmmm. so we headed over to the next place.

It was PACKED! good thing it was still early in the night, so people dont smell like BO and vomit. we had to worm our way in. I already had to start going to the bathroom (looks like its going to be a long night) so while i am waiting in line, two people (woman AND man) come out of the girls' bathroom. hmmm. wonder what was going on in there? "oh you were just fixing your hair? "RIGHT. so, i do my business and get to the bar, and Joe is STILL waiting. seems the guy before him put an order in for about 50 drinks. so i put on the charm. as he is trying to figure out who he bought drinks for, i say "me me!! you got one for me remember?? yeah. drunk santa and a hot elf, i so got a free drink! "mmmmm. tasty!"

Joe ended up having to drink the two that he got for us. i bet he was happy about that!

"yes, mmm. very happy!"

Next Bar PLEASE!

we go to the next one on the list. (i cant even remember the name) we get situated with the beers, and its time for a drink shot! yeah. mmm. we are living the life!

its time to dance, or just time for joe to stick his big white head in my face. i am STILL pulling white hairs outta my teeth.. we stayed long enough to drink our beer, and listen to the band, and it was on to the MENS CLUB. yeah, they let us in. sadly, i was NOT able to take pictures (guess the strippers dont like their naked bodies on the internet.) so we drank our drink there and watched the "entertainment" Joe was in heaven. but after we finished out drink, it was time to skip outta there and head to the downtown cue n cushion. where, i ordered the best margarita i have ever tasted!"its so good once it touches your lips"

there was also a "mini" bowling alley, so matt and andy decided to play a few rounds. i forget who won. i think andy did. by this point, i really didnt care!

"me hungry! get me a cheeseburger!"

after i finished savoring that delicious margarita, it was time for some pics. here is kristi and i

Joseph and I

Billy, Joseph and I

and then it was time to go to the next place. Next on the list was Shooters. but we opted for McDonalds since our tummies were rumbling. (oh yeah, food. thats very important when you go drinking for 8 hours straight) while we went to mickey d's the rest of the gang went to shooters. they had a VERY hard time getting a drink. (once again, who only staffs one bartender on a night like THIS?)

don't we look positively EVIL in this picture?

so, it was on to the eldorado. we tried the next 3 places on the list. and after waiting in super long lines, we said screw this! "LETS GO TO THE NUGGET FOR OYSTER SHOOTERS!" we head down there, and the bartender didnt have ANYTHING we wanted! GRRRRR! so we went to a bar NOT on the list, we walked over to the harris. THEY had drinks galore! even Smirnoff :)

as we are enjoying our beverages, Andy comes back in and says all the santas are waiting under the arch. so we "cuff" our beverages, and head outside. all you see is santas EVERYWHERE! in the meantime, we totally lost my group. it was like the sea of santas pulling us apart! joe and i got seperated, so we took some pics...
unfortunately, since my batteries were dying this is the only that turned out! the rest of em look like this




so, i couldn't locate my friends. we went into the next bar, and well, i think we were one step either ahead or behind them. i received a txt from them, and that was it. with a dead camera and just each other, we got into some mischief of our own.. i will save that for another blog though.