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Saturday night bar hopping

We all met at Coogan's, a sort of sports/karaoke bar around the corner from school. And started the festivities...



Catherine was hiding the school uniform under a hoodie...school spirit, she came straight from clinicals!


Gretchen, Aric and Arthur singing something on the karaoke screen


Mahogany, Krystell, Wilson and ?


Arthur finally got up and sang "I got friends in low places" and brought the house down...we did our best to support him.


then Aric got up with Krystell and sang Van Morrison's "brown eyed girl"


Aric's girl, Claudia did her best to remind all that this is HER guy...LOL


Then, someone said something to the guys about there being a place that had burgers and fries up front, alcohol and club in the middle, and porn in the back, so naturally, the party moved there. Love was all around, as everyone but me and Cindy were paired off with their S.O. (and Arthur and Mahogany let out with the fact that they've been dating since summer...WTF?)


We first went to the burger/porn/club place. It's called POP (on 9th ave between 14th and 15th)
Going thru this portal, you are hit with loud music, and the door guy looked like Marcelus from Pulp Fiction...he looked at my ID and said "ok Miss California" as he let me in, and Gretchen was "ok, Miss Iowa" LOL

A lot of 40 something guys in the club district. They go out in hoards, in their suits and hang out outside and smoke and check you out as you're going in. Sort of had a European skeevy quality about it. But honestly...I think it may have been the tastiest burger I've ever had!


Then Aric knew about some swanky-ass place on the roof of some hotel around the corner, and we stood in line and went in after about 20 minutes. I should have gotten a picture of the inside...it was very sleek and "Jetsons" like the clubs in Europe, but despite the great music, no one was dancing! it was like a stand around/sit around and be seen kind of thing...New York clubs are weird! they're about the scene and not having fun, it seems.



This was the elevator ride up in the swanky hotel (hotel G? is all we could hear) on 9th and 13th streets, off the 14 subway stop.

the only place we found was the outside roofdeck, so we hung out there (with all the smokers, blech!) but the view was nice...made me homesick, a bit.


From here, we decided that it was late (2:30) and we all had a day of writing clinical logs and case studies ahead of us (and blogging) so we called it a night.

posted by sketchmonkey @ 8:27 AM