Living in the Scoot Utopia

This past Saturday my buddy Brandon and I went out for one final day of reckless irresponsibility before he becomes a father next week. We know we succeeded because we don't really remember the end of the night other than a few flashes of images. :)

We do know that we went to 16 bars, played a session of Texas Hold-em at one of them and Silver Strike Bowling at another, and had probably around 25 beers each.

Along the way I passed the 200 mark in my list of all the bars I have been to. Here's a quick rundown of the new ones added to the list:

#197: Bar Lenexa, KS. Yeah, that's the name. Located on Santa Fe Trail Drive, just east of Old Towne Lenexa.

#198: VFW Post 846 Overland Park, KS. Since it was Veteran's Day we wanted to stop in and have a drink with some vets. We bought a round for all the guys in there, but not before one of them had already bought us a round too.

#199: Rusty's Last Chance Shawnee, KS. The beers here were enormous, so we played bar trivia for a while to pace ourselves.

#200: The Red Balloon Shawnee, KS. For my 200th bar we decided to hit up the famous karaoke bar that I've heard so many stories about. Of course there was no karaoke going on early on a Saturday afternoon but I can at least finally say I've been there.

#201: Birdie's Overland Park, KS. I used to live just a few blocks away, but since that was back when "bars are for the dregs of society" I had never been.

#202: The Roxy Overland Park, KS. Stopping here was really more of an afterhought as we weren't originally planning to. This was one of those deals where we had to make an extra stop in order to relieve our bladders. :)

#203: The Piano Room Waldo, Kansas City, MO. Third time's the charm on this south Waldo staple -- my previous two attempts to visit this place were thwarted literally at the door. I liked the music here - live piano/horn performances and big band/swing on the sound system between sets.

Starting from The Piano Room we walked the remainder of the night. The rest of the places we hit up Saturday night were all places I've been before. Having my bar poker virginity taken at The Village Lounge was probably the most nervewracking part of the night for me - I was assigned to a table of strangers and in my nervousness the first thing I did was spill my beer on the table. At the night went on things became more of a blur but the best I can tell we apparently ended the night after a brief stop in Bobby Baker's.

Next week Brandon's wife goes in for a c-section and Brandon will be a new dad. He's a little freaked out but I can tell by the attention to detail he has shown so far in his preparations that he's going to do just fine. Most likely this means the end of our big benders except for maybe 1 or 2 special occasions a year, but after he gets settled into the new routine I'm sure we'll still have a beer or two here and there. :) Good luck to you, father-to-be!