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June 10, 2006

One Week To Go

Just a little over a week to go before the wedding. Officially, it's 7 days, 5 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds as of the date of this post. After this time has passed, Amanda and I will be in the process of being joined as man and wife in front of our friends, family and God.

I look back at my previous posts over the past few weeks and months and realize how quickly everything is going. I remember when I made my first post outlining how many weeks away the wedding was, it really seemed like a long time away. Now, with only the blink of an eye, it's upon us.

The past few months have been interesting. The wedding started off as something small, but gradually over time it has grown to this huge thing that is really outside of the scope that I had originally planned. I guess that's what happens when you let other people start making decisions about what's going to happen. During the process, we've had to make some difficult decisions regarding our wants and needs and cut out things that either didn't work or we just couldn't possibly afford. The latter being the bigger reason than the prior, unfortunately. We're at a point now where everything is in place and most of it makes sense.

Yeah, there's a wedding next week...

This week, on the other hand, is a completely different scenario. This weekend is my bachelor party. Steven is coming to town, and Michael, Kyle, Dave, John and Matt are all coming down to The Pub on 4th Street Live here in Louisville. We're going down there for some good food and some good drinks.

I'm personally looking forward to the Strongbow Cider.

A little history when it comes to my love of drinking cider. Otherwise known as "hard cider", in this blog it's just going to be known as "cider". I was first introduced to cider when I first started going to Canada about 9-10 years ago. I was 18 or 19 at the time, which is the legal drinking age in Canada. I was going out to bars for the first time, playing pool and watching strip shows. A great time was had by all.

At one of the bars that we hit, an English pub, they had something called cider. Now, I grew up in Kentucky and the only beer or beer-like substance that I ever heard of was Coors and Budweiser. While in Canada, I was introduced to things like Molsen, which was much better than Budweiser and had a higher alchohol content. But it was only after I had my first cider (and second, and third) that I found a drink that truely fit me.

Now, back in KY it's difficult to find a good cider. After the past 10 or so years, I think I've only come across a good one a handfull of times. This past weekend, Saturday to be precise, I was hanging out with Dave. Sometime in the afternoon, Kyle called and asked if we wanted to go to dinner. I asked where he wanted to go, and he mentioned a place called "The Pub" on 4th Street. After discussing it with Dave, we decided that it would be a good time and headed down to the Pub later that evening.

As I entered the bar, I realized that this wasn't your average place to drink beer. There was a guy walking around outside with a kilt and the employees were dressed in shirts that had British slang on them. Yes, Virginia, we had found a English pub to drink in. We got to our seat and I went over the menu. There was a wide assortment of drinks on the list, and I finally found what I was looking for: Strongbow Cider.

I ordered the first drink, and had it down in about a minute (I was thirsty). The second drink came and I drank half of it in a minute. Dave and Kyle started to give me a hard time about how fast I was putting them down, so I slowed down after that point. I continued drinking the Strongbow Cider throughout the night and had a total of 5 pints. Needless to say, I was definately feeling good and wasn't feeling much pain.

So, after having so much fun at The Pub last weekend, I called Steven this week and made the request that we go back tonight. So, that's the plan ... all of us are meeting up at The Pub tonight. Steven has rented a room at a nearby hotel so that we won't have far to go when the time comes to crash.

Overall, tonight should be a great night had by all.

~out...

Posted by ed at June 10, 2006 01:05 PM

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