Most weekends I do the same thing, spend time with the family doing some mostly kid friendly activity. But last weekend, yes Mother's Day weekend I spent 24 hours doing adult things. Sure most of it consisted of sleeping in late but a few hours of that time I got to live like a modern day bar hopper.
It started with an hour drive, a lovely dinner, and a comedy show. But what followed was pretty incredible. I got to pretend for a few hours that I was a cool, hip, fun, not just a mom person. And boy did I have fun. Never before have I been to the places we journeyed last Saturday night. Mike, his two friends and I went on quite an adventure! I got to see Bill Burr, who is a sexist pig. Not really, but he did say he expected someone from his show to blog about that so I figured why not me!?
I drank more than my normal drinking limit (which is 3 drinks FYI). I got to try new drinks and see new places, one of which I hope to visit again even if the drinks weren't quite to my tasting. I've only read about places like the one I visited that night. A trip to a Speak Easy was not something I would have ever expected for myself now that I don't live in a large city and because I have devoted 99% of my time to 2 kids. But! I went to one. Yes me!
Down a quite street, through a dark bar squeezing between a brick while and patrons on bar stools. Up a small squeaky staircase, through a guarded door, up another yet smaller squeaky staircase and through a cozy crowded room to a rooftop beauty. When I reached the community table at the unknown hipster bar I was shocked, the roof I'd expected above me wasn't there, instead it was twinkling lights and tall buildings surrounding us.
It was a beautiful, magical place. A place with four brick walls but no ceiling. One long wooden table took up the majority of the room and being placed at a table with strangers was out of my comfort zone but I sat down. I tried the oddly named drinks even though I hadn't a clue what would be in them. I enjoyed the sounds and smells of the places with its odd music and rich wooded scent. I enjoyed the crowd of people even if they weren't the type of people I'd pictured there.
It was a lovely place that we left after one drink. It was a place I may never find again, but that's ok because for just one night of my life I got to be the young hipster in her obscenely short dress enjoying cocktails with a good group of people at a secret location that many of the people on the street below had no clue about.
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