Santa Pub Crawl

oh wee. what a great weekend. was in portland and lived the portland dream. :) boutique cocktail party on friday and met new friends. shopping and college basketball on saturday with new friends and old ones from high school. then we did one of the most interesting things i have ever been a part of. apparently on the first weekend of december they do a santa pub crawl on the north east side of portland. (in case you are unaware 'portland' is comprised of quite a few different downtown locations) we were where what most people see as the hipster area. but they have these awesome authentic german bars and italian bars. just a fun, lively place.

so the aim of the pub crawl is you all dress up in santa claus items, Jared and Chris looked more like homeless 6'8" elves if anything. the crawl starts at noon and goes til midnight. we went at about 6:00 and met up with HUNDREDS, of santas...HUNDREDS. and had such a good time bar hoping. oddly enough, a couple bars in hundreds of people dressed in banana suits showed up. these were the 'banarchists'....apparently there is an ancient rivalry between bananas and santa claus (who would have known?). anyways they ran around yelling 'f*$k santas' and had bumper stickers all over their banana suits that read 'i will never have to tell my kids bananas aren't real.' this was all EXTREMELY entertaining. let alone when a 5'5" bar tender had to kick Jared 6'4" and Chris 6'8" out of the bar for play fighting with each other.

we soon got antsy and headed to downtown portland where you can find all the historic and flashy clubs/bars. of course we were the only ones dressed in christmas attire but man did people love us. everyone in their drunken states thought that we were the most clever, joyous, most wonderful people. we loved every moment of it and just continued our joyous evening and aimed to cross an item off our bucket lists. go to a strip club.

i am fully aware that many people would not do this. but us girls were just fascinated by the thought. so we went and it is now crossed off and i wouldn't have chosen anyone else to take that adventure with. :)

i had a GREAT weekend. i couldn't help but feel at home. leaving makenzie's on sunday and swinging by kimberly's on the way home just to have one of my roommates family make us all an amazing dinner. for a weekend that went by so fast, after such a long week, i definitely added a LARGE amount of new fond memories. december is going to be a WONDERFUL month.