7/8 days to 30: lakewood bar crawl

The great thing about Lakewood bars is that there are a lot of them.

After college, our weekends consisted of shuttling ourselves between McCarthy's, Malloy's, Pug Mahones, and about 20 other bars. The beer was cheap, and usually someone knew someone who lived within stumbling distance. So you'd hang out at their place first, do a Power Hour, then wander over to McCarthy's and drink $1 drafts. The whole night probably cost $5. It was fab.

On Friday we decided to relive the good ol' days. Except we got together at 6 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. And we had champagne and nice cheese for our pregame instead of Natural Light and Doritos.

Also, we got to the bar at 10 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. And instead of pounding beers and shots as soon as we walked in the door at McCarthy's we played like three games of darts.

Also, someone was the designated driver and drove us home instead of us trying to hail a cab in Lakewood at 2 a.m.

But otherwise everything was the same. Ho hum.