The Night Before the BRC

So last Thursday, the day before the Burnet Road Challenge, an old college friend was in town. He lives in NYC and I haven’t seen him since my brother lived there. Think it was about 3 New Year’s Eves ago. Anyway, Michael and his girlfriend made a quick trip to Texas …but they were only in Austin 1 day. I planned on taking it easy and going home relatively early so I’d be 100% for the BRC. Well, that didn’t happen!

It all started when Tehra and Joe came to pick me up. Now these 2 are also old college buds of mine who live right around the corner from me. But they have 2 little kids now, so I rarely see them. As luck would have it, they had already pre-arranged for the kids to be visiting the grandparents in Houston this weekend, so they were ready for a kid-free night on the town. Anyway, we headed downtown and meet up with Michael and Missy at Casino el Camino.
This was one of the places on their list of things to do that Michael’s brother made for them. After many many beers here, we decided to hit up Club de Ville. On the way I made them pop into Lovejoy’s for a beer and a shot. Jager and tequila…yum yum.

Upon arriving at Club de Ville, we noticed a band setting up. And if you’ve never been to this place, it’s got a cool backdrop.

Nice big outdoor area…we even found some empty couches! I really liked the band that night, but who knows if I heard them sober. I met some friend of the band who texted me the name since it was so weird and long and my drunk ass couldn’t remember it! Speaking of, I need to go find that in my phone……

Techno and Biker Jen (Our college nicknames)

And no, I'm not wearing a white bra....it's blue! Damn flash....

Needless to say, I did NOT make it home early and I did NOT take it easy on the drinking. But hey, I hadn’t seen these friends in ages. Oh well.

All the pics are here.

P.S. Work on Friday SUCKED!