How We Deal

So what do you do when you just found out that your wife has a tumor and has to have surgery in the very near future? (Other than planning for our trip to the Bahamas, which we have already been doing.)  Do you go spend time with friends?  Go to the beach?  Maybe have a few drinks?  Well our answer is a yes to all three. 

 Sunday afternoon we set off to the beach and took part in the St. Pete Beach Memorial Day Weekend Beach Crawl (Think pub crawl, with only bars right on the beach).  So, around 3 in the afternoon we stepped into Jimmy B’s Beach Bar and started the journey.  The beach crawl actually started at Swigwam at 2, but we were a little late.  Over the next seven hours, we slowly made out way down the beach, bar by bar, until we hit the Undertow around 10.  (When I say we, I mean my wife and I and about 100 other people doing the crawl.)  That was about enough for us, so a small group headed back to the hotel we started from.  The night ended with about 6 of us eating pizza straight from the box on a couple of benches in the parking lot of the pizza place.

 I must admit that was my first bar crawl ever, beach or not, so I didn’t know what to expect.  It was a good time hanging out with friends and we definitely had a lot of laughs. 

 I will answer here the question I was asked at least a dozen times yesterday.   What is it like being the only sober person in a sea of drunks?  My answer is and always has been that it is actually quite entertaining.  I still get to watch and laugh at all the people doing stupid and crazy things, and I get to do it knowing that I will be able to wake up in the morning fresh and ready to go.  Not to mention I do not have to fork over 5 dollars for a beer at every bar.

 A few other things you didn’t know you wanted to know about the beach crawl;

--My Best guess is that we covered 11 bars in 7 hours.  Although is you ask 10 different people that were there, you would probably get 10 different answers.

--A game of beach volleyball broke out somewhere around bar 6 or 7.  Entertaining is the only word I could use to describe it.  

--Sunday was the first day it did not rain in more than a week.

--Running full speed into the side of a bounce house is never a good idea.

--I swear that the walk back to the hotel after the leaving the last bar was at least 4 times as long as the walk there, even though I know it was the same distance.

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Even the birds got in on the action.

The weather was on our side.

Volleyball at it's best.

At this point we were only half way to the end.

This is the exact spot we got married a little over six years ago.

Mix with good friends and you are guaranteed a great time.

Of course Munkle came along for the crawl.