the 5th anniversary of my 21st birthday

So here is how my 26th birthday played out (I like to think of it as the fifth anniversay of my 21st birthday). I started the day off at 4:45am when I woke up to leave Lawerance, KA to come home. I had been there working on a powerplant during a 2-month stint of weekly travel. When I was getting on my 7:30 flight Kenny Rogers was playing on the overhead speakers; followed by some Sinatra. Let's just say this was an omen that good things were to come.

When I got to Austin it was a gorgeous day (and warm... finally). I went to lunch at Kieffer's then to work for a while. When I got home I had a beer with C-Bass before we went over to the Chi Phi house where they were celebrating the 113rd anniversary of Chi Phi at UT (yeah, we share the smae birthday). After a couple of beers I went to Sam Paio (next to Posse) for dinner with the family. When we left I met up with Opie at Posse, along with a couple of other people. The plan was to watch the Texas/Colorado game, but Posse didn't get the channel it was on. Crown & Anchor wouldn't let the minors in, so we went to my place to watch the game.

After the game, a few beers, and a couple of whiskey cokes (courtesy of the fine liquor Opie gave me for my birthday) it was back to Posse. (Here's where it gets a little fuzzy) I got a free pitcher of Bass (the beer) for my birthday. Mauri met up with me and gave me a deal on a Foundation season ticket in with the old Bunchers section for football next year. I figured it was overtime money well spent. Bryan met up with us along with a couple of other folks (of course I didn't remember it until yesterday when he told me about it).

After passing out at Posse, a couple of people got the idea to take me to a strip club, so they woke me up and we took off. Believe it or not, after they woke me up at Posse I got a second wind. I think the crowd was me, Kevin (Vitamin), Mauri, Max, Kacie, Dayna, and a couple of their friends. The funniest part of it was the look on Kacie's face when she walked into the place (or when she got a couple of stage dances... or maybe that lap dance). After the strip club we went back to my house where I was challenged to Beer Pong. Even though I was swaying like palm tree in a tsunami, I won the game like a champ. After that I think I walked around shirtless for a while before being put to bed by Kacie and Dayna.

The next day I woke up and drove 8 hours to Amarillo. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.