Booze Cruise!

On Saturday Mike and I participated in the first annual Booze Cruise. His boss organized the event and basically it was a bar hop on beach cruiser bikes around North Fresno. We started at his house near Willow and Herndon where quite a breakfast spread awaited us:

Two monkey breads, 3 egg caseroles, fruit, bagels (not pictured were mimosas, but they were definitely consumed)...it was a bit outta control but delicious. Here are all the bikes lined up and ready to go:

This wasn't actually all of the bikes, about 10 more people came at the last minute so I guesstimate a total of about 30 people (excuse the fingerprint smudge, I think some monkey bread got on the lense).
The show stopper bike was definitely this one with the ridiculously big ape hanger handlebars:




Then we rolled down the street in a big group, causing quite the spectacle and headed to Grog's.





We stayed at Grog's for about an hour, enough time to have a drink and watch the end of the Fresno State game (boo hiss). This was my favorite bar of the day, definitely the closest to being like Landmark, and we took over the place:
Before leaving Grogs we made a quick stop at Stevens Bicycle to fix some flat tires (a recurrng theme) and buy some bells and whistles for our rides.Then it was off to a bar called The Office:



The bartender was happy to see us as the bar went from completely empty to completely full rather quickly.


I had warm Guniess here (thats more authentic right?) and we stayed here for about 45 minutes before we went to one of the very generous participants houses for a lunch break and more beer. I dunno but I think Mike was having a good time:

Then it was off to The Red Zone.

This was a very small sports bar that I didn't even know existed but had views of tvs everyowhere you went (including the bathroom).

This is also where I was introduced to bubble gum vodka. This was surely invented for 19 year old sororiety girls but I have to admit, it was really good. It went well with sugar free red bull and even though I loathe vodka I couldnt taste the alcohol at all, good but scary combination.
Finally it was off to Aqua Shi, which opened just for us. It looked like a typical north fresno fancy shmancy bar but I thought that was pretty cool of them to open up for us for an hour.

Finally we ended up at another generous particupants house for swimming (well at least for those who were told to bring a swimsuit) and BBQ. I was a bit worn out by this point and once the girls in bikinis started taking shots while getting piggy back rides from guys, it was time for us to go. But Mike just didn't have enough to drink yet so he got this dainty little beer at I Love Sushi:

We started at around 11 and didn't get home until after 9 and the day was filled with booze, sun and bike riding and man was I was tired at the end of the day. I had a great time though and I think everyone else did as well. I was really impressed with how well organized it was so kudos to the organizers. I look forward to the next one.