It always starts the same, Taco Tuesday, Thirsty Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and then the week starts all over again. My social life was pretty much nonexistent, that is until I met my current boyfriend, and was introduce to his character of friends. This blog is going to be dedicated to the adventures and misfortunes of these said friends. I will also be writing a Highlight of the Week and link to the places that we attend during these experiences.
Saturday was the night that we had all been waiting for, it was Jr's best friend's surprise birthday for everyone's mutual friend Craig. My boyfriend and I would be attending, along with his best friend Emily and her boyfriend Brandon. Along for the ride was Brandon's best friend from childhood Milo, and his good friends Dimitri and Mary-kay. These five are regulars that you will definitely be hearing stories about in the near future for sure. Craig is short guy who has kind eyes and 70s porn-stache, Craig is world traveler of sorts, last summer he went on a trip to Chile and brought back a girl that he met at one of the sites he was staying at. I always seems to forget her name but she is definitely some one you can't miss, hip to standards of some of the most posh hipsters, with her blunt short black bangs and her distinctive look to her native Chile, her and Craig are a nice little stitch to my boyfriend's friends and their other friend groups who aren't as close. Everyone was late to the party of course, they are the kind of people that truly believe that being later is better, but for this once it wasn't the case. There was a lot of stalling involved, while everyone was getting settled in Emily and Brandon were the first to arrive, following Milo with Dimitri and Mary-Kay and then my boyfriend and I. The thing that strike me the most was when Milo who a poetic hero, with curly hair and circle metal glasses, and a lanky figure who is definitely the most outspoken of the group who has no problem talking to anyone who is willing or not to lend a ear. Jr's girlfriend who I of course forget her name as well, resemble Craig and his girlfriend a lot. I guess best friends sometimes really do look a lot a like. Milo at this party goes up to Jr's girlfriend who he mistakenly thinks is Craig's girlfriend of who he had a lengthy conversation with the last he saw her about how she's a vegan and never has anything to eat when she goes out. So Milo hands a plum to Jr's girlfriend who isn't a vegan and has this quizzical look on her face as is to why she received a plum from a conversation that she doesn't remember ever having which she unknowingly is being mistaken as Craig's girlfriend. Awkward encounter that a martini filled Milo could only have. With the rest of the guests finally arriving a hour or two later and finally being able to surprise Craig a happy birthday.
Sunday night we all decided to go to this downtown at a venue called Yerberia Cultura that was having a cumbia act coming all the way from Chicago. The group was called Cumbia Sazo, they remix popular cumbia songs fitted for a more younger crowd. It was something different for us as group to do, there were visuals, dancing and vendors selling cultural things related to the cumbia dance movement. It was my boyfriend and I, Emily and Brandon, Milo, and Dimitri and Mary-Kay, we were all excited, especially Dimitri who kept singing this one cumbia song that I couldn't for the longest time get out of my head. It was very festive as soon as we walked into the outside patio that had the stage. People were covered in body paint with abstract designs and a mix of old and young was the crowd. The members of Cumbia Sazo greeted everyone that walked in and were taking pictures of people who caught their eye. It was nice, I'm not much of a dancer but watching everyone else on the dance floor made me have a little kick to my step. Dimitri who wears tiny glasses and ponytail with a nice full mustache who is very loud and is known to get kicked out of places for being rowdy and Mary-Kay who is blonde with blue eyes and who has a infinity for Birkenstocks were the first to start dancing in the group, having no problem bumping into other people, it was making my boyfriend and I laugh. Emily who has long dark hair and prominent eyebrows and who mastered the sporty chic look and Brandon who is taller and with short curly hair, pale skin and square black glasses were at the bar deciding on what to drink. My boyfriend and I joined them, I decided on a margarita and he decided on dos equis. While at the bar we ended up bumping into Jr and his girlfriend, Jr who was covered in face paint was trying to get everyone to dance. We ending up sitting at a table behind the dance floor and watched people we know making fools of themselves always a beat too late to the song that was playing. The music was great and the atmosphere was inviting and luckily no drama with anyone ensued this time around.
This weekend was calmer then most but with my boyfriend's friends there will always be something happening whether its good or bad there's always something to mention with this group.
Highlight of the Week: My boyfriend almost falling face first into the ground after leaving the Yerberia Cultura venue. Luckily he was holding onto my hand, even though I'm 5' 1 and he's 6' 2.
Here are Facebook links to Yerberia Cultura venue and Cumbia Sazo.
https://www.facebook.com/YerberiaCultura
https://www.facebook.com/cumbiasazo
