Philadelphia - May 2008

The story of a road trip, fondue, irish bars, crashing a bus party & cheesesteaks....better known as a bachelorette party.

The lovely Kelly is getting married in June and this week we traveled to Philly to celebrate her bachelorette party. We went down Saturday after spending Friday in Spring Lake(finally got a PH card...yay!) Thanks to Beth's fabulous GPS we had no incident getting to the hotel - no small feat when 2 of the car people are really bad at directions. The hotel was cute and we arrived with enough time to classy up & make some drinks.

First stop - Fondue - we went to the Melting Pot - fun concept and lots of cheese - love the cheese. We had a lot of fun toasting Kelly & dipping small things into pots of cheese and then followed it up with dipping things in chocolate. It's very fun to hang out with people you kinda know and share pots of food - dinner went well.

back at the hotel we watched Kelly open some interesting gifts - tit cookies being one of the interesting items

Second stop - McFaddens - we were VIPs here which means for $20 we drank most of the night at a crowded back bar. McFaddens had good music but a very crowded bar. I usually have a lot of problems getting served by women bartenders but last night was awesome, the bartender I went to was not annoying about the one drink per person rule. The other side had a prickly little man who was a sticker for a braceleted arm getting each drink - way to ruin the party.
After we managed to secure beverages we returned to the main bar area where we

-made Kelly & Tiffany dance on the bar - a few other members joined her

-Patron is the new family shot

-jello shots with whipped cream still reminds me of Belmar summer

-the weirdest men are still gutsy enough to come up to a circle of girls to dance

The night got pretty fuzzy and we decided to leave around 1am-ish. I'm not exactly sure how the next thing happend but I remember climbing onto a private bus party(found out this morning it was a bachelor party) where we had the bus take us along with them to the cheesesteak place. One of the guys I met was interesting, mostly because he had some connections with NJ Devils - I think I made some vague plans - sorry Pat(might be your name). The bride did not have the best ride & some of the others weren't holding up well - thankfully the ride was short.

At the Cheesesteak place we were in a looooooooooong line and then I noticed that Lisa wasn't in line with us - and then I saw her across the street with our friend - our friend who was in the fetal position on a street corner. I went over (drunk Melanie is always sooooooo helpful) and worked with Lisa & Tiff to get a cab - 5 cabs said no flat out - apparently a drunk girl being held up by other people does not make a good passenger. We managed to bribe a cabdriver to take us back to the hotel. At the hotel we got her inside and steered her to the elevator - however she had to throw up so we brought her over to a potted plant - yeah not going back there again.

The rest of the group came back shortly after - Beth brought me a cheesesteak - the room ended up reaking of the sandwhich. When we got up at 6am this morning the smell was so overwhelming - and after 15million vodka/clubs this was not good for anyone.

for the curious - we got up at 6am to drive Lisa back b/c she has her MBA graduation - so go congradulate her!

We ended up having a fantastic time in a city not many of us knew much about - next time though I think we should stay away from random buses of men - nothing good comes from that. I have spent most of the day asleep in recovery - thankfully chinese delivery was prompt :)

happy sunday