I Can't Eat On An Empty Stomach!

It began with one person...Alina (alitoronto), contacted me asking where she should stay and what should she do while she was here in Los Angeles, CA for a work project. That innocent question got the wheels churning for a possible mini meet-up in LA. I knew that my new friend Alice (alicegourmet) would love to join us - so I called her up and told her about Alina coming in to town. She was excited about the up and coming visit.

Who the heck knows what happened next...the mini meet-up became a BIGGIE meet-up over in Santa Monica, CA. There were 17 of us crazy travbuddy's at Rusty's Surf Shack on the Pier! We occupied half the back patio and had a perfect view of the ferris wheel, rollercoaster and the beach!

We (Alina, Melanie and I) drove in together to Santa Monica and started the festivities early. Everyone was going to meet-up at about 6:30pm - we got there at 4:15, just in case anyone wanted to start out early, didn't want to sit in traffic - or wanted to have any of the Happy Hour specials. We also wanted to make sure that they were going to be able to accomodate all of us.

We started out with Calamari, chicken quesadillas and a couple of cocktails. We were trying to pace ourselves because we knew it was going to be a long night. We sat around discussing up coming travbuddy meet-ups and when we were going to meet again...lord...we haven't even gotten this one up off the ground yet and we were discussing our next travbuddy meet-up in Vegas, in LA and who knows where else...

Tracy and Tiffany soon joined us and the next thing I hear is Tiffany wants to do a Travbuddy meet-up on a 3 day weekend cuirse down to Ensenada - the "Booze Cruise!" Holy Frijolies! What have I gotten myself into. ..this is just the beginning of the night. As we continued to talk about our travbuddy meet-ups and our own personal travel adventures - Melanie came up with a great idea! We are going to give a t-shirt to the person who travels the furthest for our Travbuddy meet-up! So we have decided to call this the "Traveled the Furthest Award" - the t-shirt will have to be something from the local souvenir store - so that they will have something to remember the event by. Also, each travbuddy member will have to sign the shirt with their screen name and real name! Isn't that a great idea? So, we realized that Matt from the UK was the one that traveled the furthest to be at our meet-up so he was awarded the pink "I am the booty" t-shirt from Santa Monica Beach! Too bad you only stayed for an hour Matt! Oh well we still have Vegas next weekend!

All of a sudden our group was increasing in size. ..Alice, Vinnie, Sheila, Grace, Carole, Tiffany, Tracy, Sybil, Alina, Matt, Melanie and I, got the party started! Shots were being ordered - no help from Tiffany...Grey Goose, "blowjo**" and "wet pu**ies" - never even heard of some of these drinks before! I am not a shot drinker! I drink DRY RED WINE! These girls are crazy! Poor Vinnie the only guy in the bevy of women - thank goodness Dan came to the rescue...Dan is hilarious! I heard that he had been traveling for the last 6 months! He is a great guy! Had so many funny things to say, but I think the funniest thing he said when we asked him if was going to order dinner. He looked at us drank his beer and stated, I can't eat on an empty stomach! Hilarious Tracy and I laughed hysterically! Hence the title of this blog.

Arms being twisted; all of us started hitting back the shots! Oh no! I'm  the disignated driver! I need to make sure Alina gets back to the hotel tonight! I looked at my watch and it was only 7pm! No more shots. ..I think the more and more I said no, the faster and faster they were appearing at the table!
We made sure that everyone had their turn with the "blowjo*" shot and it was to be taken in the appropriate measure! Hands free! Melanie was game! Picked it up and slammed it down! Whoo-hoo! She left Tracy and I in the dust! I couldn't even pick it up with my mouth! Sheesh! Tracy and I were cracking up so much that I just started to lap it up like a kitten...(yes, there are photos out there somewhere of me lapping the "blowjo*") I finally used my hands to try to get it in my mouth - once I did, I tried to shoot it back and realized I only could do half ! Thank goodness none of it spilled all over me! Whew! I ended up drinking the rest the regular way. No more, no more, no more! This did not stop Tiffany. ..oh, she's one devious little devil...  :)  Next up, shots of "wet pu**ies" - holy crap! No we didn't have these immediately after the other shots (thank goodness) - we did at least wait for a bit before the next round came.

Soon more and more travbuddies came...Warren, Eli, Jennifer and Dmitrius! Way cool people! More drinks and now live music was being played by some band named Red Elvises - supposedly "Siberean Rock" never heard that before - oh well. No biggie, we were having our own fun in the back that we really didn't pay attention to them. We hung around at Rusty's for just a bit longer and then we carried the party across the street to a place named Ma'kai's (I think...hee, hee, hee) and did some dancing - don't have photos to share from there but I know there are some floating around out there. ..Melanie!!!!













This is still a work in progress - once the fog clears in my head I'll continue the story telling...
:)



Who did show up?

www.travbuddy.com/pvtjoy
www.travbuddy.com/alicegourmet
www.travbuddy.com/OCWarren
www.travbuddy.com/jenn79
www.travbuddy.com/alitoronto
www.travbuddy.com/eli173
www.travbuddy.com/mellemel8
www.travbuddy.com/TRE69
www.travbuddy.com/keeweeset
www.travbuddy.com/mizcali
www.travbuddy.com/iheart2travel
www.travbuddy.com/sheila35
www.travbuddy.com/tiffybear24
www.travbuddy.com/rotorhead85
www.travbuddy.com/vinnd
www.travbuddy.com/dmitrius
www.travbuddy.com/mattrilla