I can spot a tranny from a mile away

I don't think I ever want to leave this city. And no, not because of the "Who-can-spot-a-transvestite-first game." This place is like Sixth Street on steroids...I think you can live here your whole life and still not go to all the bars in this city...well ok ok maybe WE could. But seriously, every night this week has been a new adventure- as cheesy as that sounds. I'll start with Wednesday night.

"The Londoner"

Aunt Rhonda and Uncle Gary's friends own this pub called "The Londoner" which is an English bar/restaurant with good American music and traditional English food. All they had to say was "Wednesday is buy one drink get one free" and we were sold. So the four of us show up to the pub at around 7 or 8 and immediately Kelly and I go for the "pint specials"-- her with the Vodka/Redbull, me with the Vodka/Cranberry Juice. The owners ended up coming the same night and immediately we were invited to join them at their table for dinner. Two drinks in and we were both feelin' pretty good. It was only when I started swaying and singing too loud to Santana's new song "Into the Night" featuring Chad Kroeger from Nickelback that Kelly had to step in and "politely" ask me to abstain. Obviously I was beginning to embarrass her. Anyways, we ate dinner (club sandwiches) and were probably four "pint specials" in by now, feelin' pretty darn good...Then our night got a lot more interesting. Gary announces that he wants to take us to this club called "Titanium" a few streets over and of course we are sold on that as well. WHAT A CLUB. So far, probably the best place we have been to since we've gotten here, hell maybe even better than most of the places we went in Sydney (besides Scary Canary of course...note: see older posts) Every night they have this all girl band called "The Boss" who play any and all American songs you could imagine. A lot of pop songs=my dream come true. They busted out everything from The Cardigans "Love Fool" to "Murder on the Dance Floor." These girls could siiiiiiiiiing AND played guitar/drums/bass really well...I was so amazed with their performance and not to mention borderline Suze that I cornered one of the girls in the bathroom to express my amazement at their talent. I went on to say how "OMG, you need to move to America and play, you could be famous, you don't understand, you are better than all the bands in America, i know..i know when people can sing, i love famous people." Uhh slightly embarrassing now that I think back...Needless to say she was very flattered and I even got a wave from her when they did their next set.

"Bathroom girl is on the far right"

So then Gary and Kelly decided it was time to make a visit to the Ice Bar that was upstairs. And when he said Ice Bar, he meant ICE BAR...it's in a separate freezer type room and the bar is carved completely out of ice. I think they have something like this in Milan... It was awesome- we were in short sleeves and flip flops so we could only bare it for one vodka shot, but it was all worth it. (Thank you Gary!!) After more drinks and some dancing to California Love we were ready to head back home and get some much needed food.