Twenty Year Anniversary!

This past Saturday, my best friend Emily and I celebrated our 20 year anniversary of friendship with a pub crawl.

What? That's not normal?

But we have been friends for 20 years, which means we met in first grade. I had just moved to Texas, and I met her my first day at my new school. And here we are 20 years later, and better friends than ever.

We wanted this to be ridiculous and absurd. Every celebration has specific things you do. So we decided the celebration for 20 years of friendship would be a pub crawl. So we sent out an evite and invited nearly everyone we knew. We treated every aspect of this like you would a real anniversary. We even decorated my apartment, where everyone from out of town stayed.
I want to also mention that I love my fireplace. My apartment has one of those where you just flip a switch and it turns on, it is soooo convenient. Almost a little too convenient!

(And I may or may not have watched an entire movie today sitting in front of the fireplace.)

But Shannon, Allison and Brandon all came in town from Dallas for this occasion. Shannon and Allison stopped at a truck stop on the way in and bought us this fabulous present for the anniversary!

In case you have never seen this beautiful thing, it is figurines of a Hillbilly Swimming Hole. It has some real moving hair on the figurines and a naked bottom sticking out of the water. It screams class.

And just to make it better, when we got back from the bars, we found that my roommate had hung it from the ceiling!

As you can see from this next picture, they put some nice looking hair on these figurines!

This was supposed to be a themed pub crawl, girls were supposed to wear wigs and guys were to wear mustaches. But at the last minute we decided to cancel that idea.

But here we are just about to head out for our pub crawl!

This was taken just after the UT game at Lavaca Street Bar. You could've heard a pin drop in that packed bar for those last few seconds of the game! It was a bit intense!

Emily still brought the mustaches she bought. It made for some great photos later in the night!

Nothing scares me more than a uni brow!

(Actually, I take that back, the Hillbilly Swimming Hole scares me to no end.)

Not sure how this happened, but the placement of Dana's hand was totally accidental. She swears.

I took about a billion pictures last night. But the only one of just Emily and I, was this one. Not quite the framer I was looking for!

Here's some of the girls that were there last night. The thing about it being a pub crawl and the game going on last night, was that people would come and go at random different times through the night. So we never got a picture of everyone. In fact, I pretty much only pulled out my camera at this one bar, so I didn't even picture anyone that was at any of the other bars.

One last funny thing from last night. The last bar we went to last night was Logan's (though we had one more on the list, none of us could make it any longer...we might be getting too old for bar crawls). But we made a joke of my friends finding me a single guy. And sure enough, Shannon and Allison (or was it just Allison...things were getting a little fuzzy by that point) found a single guy. The best part, I spent the better part of probably 30 minutes (or however long I spent talking to him) telling this guy and every other person that would listen, how much he looked like Jacob. You know....teen heart-throb Jacob from the Twilight movie.

Apparently, I went up to Emily and said, "doesn't he look like Jacob?" And after she gave me a VERY long list of reasons why he did not indeed look like Jacob, I shrugged it off and went back to whatever else I was doing. I then went back to Emily five minutes later and said, "Who do you think that guy looks like?" And she answered, "Jacob from Twilight?" And she said I got so excited and said, "OMG! That's exactly what I thought!"

As if my short-term memory problems weren't embarrassing enough (or the fact that I am excited about a guy looking like a teenaged heart throb), what's even more embarrassing is a little later I was telling a guy friend of mine about how that guy looked like Jacob (keep in mind that "Jacob" was no longer even around and yet I still wouldn't let it go in my drunk mind). And my guy friend asked, "so are you team Jacob?" And I quickly responded, "No! I'm team Colin!" Which would be his name.

I truly have mastered the art of saying things that are not at all true at the completely wrong time.

But at least I can confidently say that we had a successful 20 year anniversary!!!