I went to Virginia Beach yesterday for my birthday. Let me start by saying that the drive is only and hour and 20 minutes if you go 5-7 over the speed limit and don't go during rush hours. Now that we have THAT out of the way, I left around 8AM because I thought it would take me at least 2 hours. Nope. Got there at 9:25AM (5min detour at one point, the GPS messed up) and woke two hungover lovies up (Mary and Nick). We laid around in the king-sized bed at Sunshine Inn Suites til Nick finally went to go get some coffee and see to a parking pass for my car for the night. He took a good 30 minutes as I explained to Mary that I knew mom would talk to her about Nick and I's break up (and how he went straight to mom after we broke up to apologize. kinda cute, I suppose) and then he came back with three coffees and a shark (named Fred) and a stolen flower. We laughed and joked while they both got ready and then went to eat breakfast at a little cafe carved into a hotel across the street. We then went to one of those non-descript beachy stores to grab me some black bottoms and then we took our merchandise back to the room before renting out some bikes.
We rode our bikes mostly down the boardwalk strip to check out potential places for dinner. Most places conveniently had their menu in plain sight outside of the restaurant for easy touristy access. After riding up and down the 15 blocks a few times, we decided to hit up 15th Street Raw Bar for dinner and a mexican cuisine for some cocktails and appetizers. We returned the bikes and went to shower up before cocktail time. By this time it's about 5PM and we're sitting at a random bar, me with my first legal margarita. It was pretty good- had the house margarita with salt. I drank most of it but not "all" of it because the ice melted pretty quickly outside. We then found another place where we had chips and salsa. I only drank water here because I didn't want to get drunk too fast or get sick. We stopped by a taffy shop so I could get some salt water taffy. I also purchased two necklaces, one green and one white. We all wanted to do the old time photos, so we went over to the shop to check it out. Mary and I had been talking about which era would be the coolest to dress up in and concluded we would all be southern belles and nick could be a gangster cowboy.
Then we finally went to 15th St Raw Bar for some oysters, crab dip, and hush puppies as well as a bottle of wine. I'm not a big wine drinker, turns out, but I had a full glass to get used to it. Nick bought us shots of tequila, and we all took one. It was about 9PM when we walked back to the hotel room. We weren't fully ready to go dancing just yet, so we decided to play Super Mario on my SNES (that I left in my car from the last time). Mary is ridiculously good at this game! You should've seen her. She was zipping through the levels like they were candy. Nick was getting upset because he apparently beat this game before but he was very rusty. He vowed to buy the system and game so that he could get better and beat Mary. After refreshing our make up, we went out to seek a dance bar around 11PM. The first place we went into the people were already completely wasted. It wasn't my kind of crowd either. The second place we tried didn't let Nick in because he was wearing "athletic wear" (he had on a redskins jersey). The third place was just like the second place in this retrospect and made all of us bitch and complain that a place wouldn't let a guy with a jersey on into the bar but they'd let the girls in wearing next to nothing.
So we settled into this place called The Boxx for a bit. It was pretty much deserted. The bartender made me a pink drink. I think it had vodka in it. Anyways, it was pretty good and Mary and I danced on the elevated dance floor next to the front door for 15 minutes while Nick drank his beer. Then we went to the place that Mary and Nick visited the night before called Sharks (I think thats how you spell it, maybe Sharkx or something). The bartender recognized both of them and made me a free drink.. it was blue and very strong. We played cornhole and two women who were completely trashed were playing Michael Jackson songs over and over again and doing some crazy dance moves. We went back to the hotel after this and I forced myself to drink a full liter of water before bed. I have to say I passed out around 2:30AM.
I left this morning around 10:30 and got back at noon. I've been trying to get rid of my queasyness all day long, actually. Its almost gone. I'm thinking a few more glasses of water and some more crackers will kill it. I don't really get hangovers but I do get nauseous.
It was CRAZY and FUN and I would do it all over again.
