We started out with dinner at our place with Amos & his lady friend, Amanda. This, I guess was the beginning of hillbilly night. Amos is from Martinsville, VA, and has one of the thickest redneck accents I have ever heard! We made chili, cornbread, salad & Bud Light. Tasty!
sidenote: Lee had originally given up beer for Lent. After 3 weeks of getting way too bombed and pissing off his wife, he gave up giving up beer. It's a good thing Jesus was not as easily tempted as Lee, because I am sure a cold beer sounded great in the desert. Satan only would have needed a sixer of High Life.
We headed over to the Lido Inn. The Lido Inn is a country bar. It is dark and dingy, but has awesome murals on the walls of legendary country musicians.
Usually they have a house band, but recently they have been mixing it up a little with some other bands. This time, the band was a little bit, er, more experienced (aka old)... And so were a lot of the people at the bar!! The band turned out to be pretty awesome though. They played a ton of Haggard, some George Strait, Ronnie Milsap, etc. Karen would have loved it. The old people dancing were so cute too! My favorite couple was in their late 60's. The guy was wearing tight Wranglers, boots, a gaudy American flag shirt and a cowboy hat. His wife was wearing bright read pants and a red/white/blue shirt. They were quite patriotic!
We met up with Jay & Cayci there.
Jay got a call from his brother that they were over at The Banque. We decided to head on over and meet them. I have been dying to go to the Banque since I moved here, but so far we hadn't made it. Jay doesn't like the Banque because they have male strippers there every Thursday. Not real sure why that is an issue on every other day of the week... The Banque was everything I thought it would be!! It is a HUGE country bar. As you pull into the parking lot, it is FULL of huge pickup trucks. Sweet! There were probably about 350 people there 150 of which were line dancing. (And 250 of them were pretty trashy. Haha!)
The wait staff was good and it didn't take long to get a drink. Oh, and this is an 18 & up bar, so that is always interesting. There was a stage where people would do the line dances so that you can follow along. One of my favorite things in the world is to watch older dudes line dance. Line dances tend to have some booty shakes in them, and there is something insanely funny about a chubby old dude shaking his butt. We were at the Banque until they kicked us out at closing time!
All in all, it was a big 'ol country night... And I loved it!
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I'm smiling just thinking about it!
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