Homecoming Shenanigans

Every so often a day comes along where you never dreamed it possible, yet somehow, it happens and its everything you ever imagined. Ha--ok it wasn't that dramatic but homecoming this past Saturday was hilarious!!

Ryan, Nate, Grade and I headed downtown to meet at my godfather's tailgate at 9am. I believe we cracked our first bacardi and diet at 9:02am!! It was a small crew for Badger homecoming but we managed to keep ourselves entertained. My godfather always has us out at his tailgate before the game for good and drinks. At game time, we took the LONG walk from Lathrop St to Bucks on Reagent.

By the time we arrived at Bucks, we had a pretty good buzz going and the drinks just kept coming. It was a little chilly but we braved it outside for a while, then headed in to Buck's where stuff really hit the fan. I recall walking in and immediately being bombarded by a very flamboyantly gay man who I didn't even know but he was talking to people in our group...hmm..interesting! I had all to do to keep myself from busting out laughing because apparently this guy just latches on to people at Buck's and he was trying to latch on to our group.

Anyhow, drinks, shots, lots of photos, its all a blur. We ended up staying at Buck's for the entire game and were all pretty drunk!! We needed to eat immediately and we decided to walk up to Ians for a slice. Well after I had to drag Ryan out of the bar, we started on our way up there. In all the shuffle we lost track of Ryan and a girl named Steph who had joined our group at Buck's.

Nate, Grade and I made it to Ians, waited in a long line, got a piece of pizza and were wondering where the heck Ryan and Steph were..."Brrrring" the phones start ringing....its Steph...."We're outside of Brothers (What??!) and Ryan's puking his guts out!" HA!! I just about died laughing, you see, Ryan was (and I emphasize WAS) our designated driver for the day!!

Wow--we start walking over to Brother's and arrive to this scene:


Ha--I've known Ryan a long time and never seen this sight before. It was great. So the next 1.5 hours was spent trying to get Ryan in a cab and back to McFarland. NO CAB WOULD TAKE HIM!! I was yelling, Grade was taking pictures, people were walking by and laughing....I had no choice.....I had to call him mother!


Yes, a cardinal sin against friends but I had no choice!! None of us could drive him home and it was only 3pm!! I made the dreaded call to RuthAnn and pleaded with her to come pick up her 28yr old son. Yes, we've all been there!

Ryan finally got picked up after a few more puking episodes and we continued on our way to go meet Jeremy back at Bucks. We stayed there for a while, kept reminiscing about the last few hours events, then headed to The Annex so that I could do some long overdue dance moves! Wow, yeah, I guess there's video but luckily I haven't seen it yet! Then we decided to head closer to home on the east side to go to Pedro's to watch the UFC fights.



Overall, the day/night was a blast and just hilarious! I always have a good time on Badger Saturdays and look forward to the two remaining home games. They'll be cold but SO worth it!