On Saturday, November 8th, 2008, I went to the Providence Convention Center to take part in something "amazazing!" It was the 15th Annual International Beer festival. I was in heaven. The night started off with a few of my friends coming over to play RockBand and drink a couple of beers.
Once we finished rocking out, we hopped in my buddies Mini Van to head out for a night on the town. Man we're getting old, a mini van come on, but it made things easier on us because all 5 of us were able to fit comfortably and only one person had to be the DD. Definitely getting older and more responsible.
The beer festival had a maze of roped off lines, kinda like waiting in line at Disney or Six Flags, but for adults. It took us 45 minutes just to get into the room for the beer festival. We met some friends while there that had planned to come with us and it was a great time. There was all types of beers. The usuals were present Sam Adams, Coors, Miller, but also about 200 other different types. It was my kind of place.
When you walk in the door of this festival they hand you a cup it is about the size of the cup that comes with NyQuil, okay maybe a bit bigger but then there is a line on the cup that says fill to this line. It is located about half way up the cup and is there to tell the vendors only to fill to that high on the cup. If you were nice to the vendors they would fill your cup past the line hehehehe.
Well needless to say about 45mins into me and my friends being at the festival we were cocked. It's kinda like playing power hour. We started to become more assertive, and began cutting in lines and things like that. Oh what fun. I did run into a buddy of mine "Tosti" most of you should know him. I hadn't seen him in a while and in my drunken state he got sappy on me and almost made me cry. I called him an asshole and then gave him a hug. The bastard. HA HA HA. Well as I began hanging with him the band playing at the festival decide to have a dance off. And if you know Tosti you know he was more than up for the challenge. He made funny but disgusting gestures to his opponent and surprisingly had some really good moves. At the end the band never really picked a winner but in my mind Tosti won.
Then I left Tosti, his fiance Coreen, and their friends cause I had to pee (one of the many times). Now the bathrooms were off limits to guys for some reason but the convention center had about 50 portopots for people to use. When I was over there I saw a guy in a Ski Suit and a Santa Hat. Now I'm not talking about the kind of Ski suit that you wear when you go skiing. Big fluffy jacket and pants. this Guy had on the tight speed skiing aerodynamic ski suit and it was like neon blue and weird patterns. Then I witnessed four people go into one portopot. I think they were smoking the wacky tobaccy. But I'm not one to judge.
A lot more crazy shit happened and it was real fun but as all good things happen they have to come to an end. Toward the end of the night I had to stop a friend from getting in a fight. He probably could have kicked the guys ass but I didn't want my friend to get arrested. But the other guy pulled a real dick move.
So the fun ended we headed to a bar so we could sober up. Funny right! Well our DD was fine and he stopped drinking a long time ago and I needed to sober up too so I wouldn't be hung over so I nursed my beer at the bar. It was a great time with friends, music, beer and fun. Good times had by all.
If you ever get a chance to go I highly recommend it.
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