What IS Belvedere? DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ROCKS

I just wanna say Sloppy Superior Saturday must become a weekly ritual for UMDers.  Did a bar crawl with the boys...  Hit up a few gems. And the best part was that Wisconsin DOES the whole daylight savings at 2am the clocks go back to 1am, keeping the bars open that one extra hour.  Umm...

MOST HILARIOUS NIGHT OF MY LIFE! 

Let me give you a run-down of how amazing my night was:

• Get to Roper's a lil' past midnight.  Live country band (for those of you who know me would know that I highly dislike country, but I LOVE ROPER'S), but they play two songs then take a break.  Suddenly I find myself doin' the "Cupid Shuffle" and shakin' my booty to Ke$ha.  Beers weren't cuttin' it.  Had to leave.
• Head over to Lord Stanley's.  We decide it's too late to drink beer, let's switch to hard liquor and shots.  So Benny goes to the bartender, who btw was barely 18, and says, "I'll have a Belvedere on the rocks."  NEVER have I ever seen a person look so confused! "Um... What's  Belvedere?"  They don't have it.  Grey Goose?  No go.  "What's the most expensive vodka you have?" "Stoli."  OMG... C'MON SUPERIOR!  This is 2010.  Live in the now.  From that point on, we were on a mission: To Find Belvedere.  Anywho, my boys order a Stoli on the rocks, and the chick takes out two 16 oz beer glasses, fills them half up with ice, then pours it full of vodka.  Price tag for one of these drinks: $3.50.  LESS THAN MY JAG BOMB.  Started gettin' squirrely from there on...  Pretty sure someone got stabbed at Lucky's across the street.  I mean from inside Stanley's, we saw 4 cop cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance.  That was our exit cue for the next bar.
• The Palace Bar looked like a fine establishment to go into.  They had Jameson stocked.  I was feelin' it.  But once again, no Belvedere.  Just a few-years-old bottle of Grey Goose.  The guys had to settle.  By now it was 1:45am (but really it WAS 2:45am! Yayyyyy daylight savings time!), so we had to make a dash to one final bar.
• FINAL DESTINATION: Frankie's.  One word: KARAOKE.  I do a mean "Just A Friend" by Biz Markie, if I must say.  Drink specials: Dollar shots of Hot 100.  NO THANKS fellas.  The guys thought that was a good way to end the night.

All in all, Operation Find Belvedere In Superior, Wisconsin, was an epic fail. But it Sloppy Superior Saturday was a GREAT SUCCESS.  I suggest that every UMD student have a SSS experience in the future.  Total cost of the night: $20.  Probably because the guys found it neccessary to buy the rest of my drinks after Stanley's, and we didn't have to call a taxi.

Still, what a night...






♥ MoJo