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Monday March 29th 2004 03:01 PM PST

Just got back from Avalon. Good weekend of drinking and eating. Pictures are downloading from the camera now so I will have a bunch of them up soon. We went to Buffalo Nickel on Saturday night and had dinner. We figured we'd avoid the crowds by heading out of town, but when we got there we were THE ONLY ONES there. I dropped my parents and Jen back off in Hamilton where we were staying and headed out to pick up Steve and Vera at the Bombard's house where they had dinner. I parked down by Armstrongs where i talked to Barb for 2 seconds. She said at that point that we were going to wait up at the Bombards for her and then we would head out for the night. So i walked up the Hill and hung out for a few minutes while we waited for Barb to get off of work.

We first headed to the Marlin Club where we drank and played darks for about 3 hours. Then Barb said that she needed to go dance. So we wlaked a block to Club Chi, which is honestly the funniest place in all of Avalon. Its a little hole in the wall dance club in an upstairs space just off the boardwalk. Its lit almost entirely with black lights and disco ball spotlights. The crowd there is a mixture of all the locals that know barb, and the tourists trying to find some place to hang out. So we hung out there til last call. During this time i sat around with Vera watching all the people in the place. I also witnessed by own brother dancing in the GoGo cage.

Sunday was just laid back all day long. We had breakfast and headed back to Hamilton where we drank on the deck and sat by the Pool. Dinner at Armstongs on Sunday was great as always. Steve and Vera had just left on the 5:45 boat, so it was just my mom dad Jen and me for dinner. Barb got us a table right on the water and waited on us while we were there. I had to start off with a Catalina Ice Tea, but my second round had to include a shot of Petron. I just ordered two and told Barb the second one was for her. So she swoops in with the drink platter sets the shots down and a few seconds later she comes back with a dessert menu. She kneels down next to me like shes showing me something from the menu, and before i could blink she's slammed the shot glass back down on the table.

After dinner we headed down the block to Olaf's. So two HUGE waffle cones later, we're all stufed. We headed back to the place and crashed very nicely with all the food we'd eaten.

Today we went to breakfast at Joe's on the boardwalk because both the Casino Dock cafe and the Busy Bee were closed. Jen and I got on the 11:45 boat and headed up to In N Out for Lunch.