Mardi Gras

Last night was Mardi Gras! Did you guys celebrate Fat Tuesday? Downtown Portland was bumpin' with activity, which is pretty amazing for a Tuesday night. Felicia had heard about this bar she wanted to check out on the radio called Voodoo Lounge. It turns out to be a swank little bar in China Town. Very nice. When I called them they said they had a strictly enforced dress code. However, once we got there, the only thing strictly enforced was money collection. So Felicia and I dressed up. No photos as I seem to be the only person in the whole wide world that I know with a camera. The cover for Voodoo Lounge was $10.00 which I was not thrilled about to begin with, and was really not thrilled about once I got inside. It was a lounge for sure. A cool lounge. The $10 just bought access to the bar. No live music, nada, and the well drinks were $5.00! Needless to say, we didnt stay very long.

Then it was off to CC Slaughters. Now Slaughters is always good fun. No cover, and cheap drinks. To keep it the New Orleans spirit alive, they had men flash the audience. That gets boring after a while. Slaughters tried to make me a hurricane, but it ended up being blue and not tasting very much like a New Orleans style hurricane. They come out red at Pat O's in New Orleans, which incidentally is the very first place I ever bought a drink. Hurricanes are probably not the best drink for a beginning drinker, so I passed it off to a friend and switched to a wussy strawberry daiquiri, which I still like to this day.

After Slaughters it was on to Stark street. However, all the places we wanted to go charged cover. So we decided not to pay. Why pay on Mardi Gras when it's the same thing as any other day just with beads?! We did stop by the Roxy for a late night sandwich and some coffee. Not really all that late actually. Probably only like 12:30 or 1 am. But, we had our fun and were ready to head home anyway.

Good times all-in-all, and came home with lots O beads. Now getting those is a whole other story.

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