We proceeded from class like it was recess and Ronda called Gomer.

Ronda "What are you doing tonight, its Mardi Gras?!"Gomer: "I don't believe in Mardi Gras"Ronda: "It's not like the Easter bunny Gomer?!"

Jen: "It's about BOOBS, BEADS and ALCOHOL,what is there not to believe in?!!!"

As we drank our first beers of the evening at the lovely Rose and Crowne (can you get any less creole than that?) we started chit chatting in the corner.

Little did we know that what was about to happen would be a theme for the rest of the night -

Random man 1 interrupted us:"This may seem like an odd question, but would either of you go on a date with me????"

Jen: "I am seeing someone"Ronda: "Oh, I have a boyfriend"

Random 1: "That's fine because I have to get rejected 10 times. My therapist says I need to get over my shyness and fear of approaching women. Only 7 more to go." Then he walked away.

Either a very interesting approach, or humm..

We then decided to drive to Mountain View and go to Molly McGee's (do we see a theme here?), here we bought another 2 beers and walked outside.

Random 2 yelled, "Sit here! Sit here!"

Ronda: "I need a backrest"...

Being the quick one I (Ronda) am, I realized then that all the seats had a backrest and said:"I need a cushion too"Random 2's She-Man friend says: "Don't be mean. It's his bday"

Ronda desperately struggled with unleashing her redhead personality but suprisingly held back from asking are you a man or a woman?!!! instead she said....

Ronda "We are not being mean, we just want to talk........... happy birthday."

We sat and turned to tune the bar out and drink our beers. Random 3 walks up and sets his jacket down - 30 seconds later mind you.

"Can we sit here?" (there were at least 4 empty tables)

Ronda pointing over to the table next to us "you should sit there, it's his birthday"

Random 3 "It's my friends birthday too" and then sits down at our table (damn!).

Random 4 walks up and starts discussing his life in weird detail..:

"I am 33 and my son, he's 17 and 6'6" and scares me when he snowboards--do you snowboard?' and I am in the trade and college is not important unless you go to an Ivy league school and I only went to SF state and my wife, or rather ex wife, is Benjamin Bratt's half sister. oh and did you hear about that tsunami in Santa Cruz, it was crazy, on the news and stuff. I have two daughters and I don't want my son to leave because he's my only boy."

And yes, it was that discombobulated!!!

Drowning out the babbling Ronda suggests we should go and pick songs off the juke box-- a brilliant escape plan, except for the fact that we had no cash...

Since we didn't have any cash we pretended to make selections and laughed the whole time at ourselves while listening to ANOTHER Coldplay song (bleh).

Ronda: "How old was that guy?"Jen: "How old was his son? Jesus. Way to start young buddy!"

Ronda "who was he related to?"Jen "Benjamin Bratt haha"Ronda "Oh, hahaha"

A man wearing a Sharks jersey walks up, Random 5, and looks at Ronda.

"Can you say that again? You looked mad."Jen: "We are trying to talk."

Random 5: "Just say that again."Ronda: "We are kind of in the middle of something.."

Random 5: "Are you from around here?"Jen: "I am from Santa Cruz"Ronda: "Yes I am"Random 5 pops his Sharks collar. "I was at the game tonight, they won"

Ronda and Jen: "You should date our friend Megan, she is a Sharks fan"

Random 5: "Are you guys having fun?"Jen: "We were until we came here!!!!!!! ;)"Random 5's friends pulled him out the door. Ha-ha. Hahahahahahahaaaa...I am so mean (Jen).

As this was the fifth time we were interrupted we started to wonder:

Ronda: "Maybe we just look like really nice girls"Jen: "...But were not!"

Ronda: "Are we wearing Axe........................Female Axe?"

Jen walked up to get another beer weary of leaving Ronda alone.

Two Randoms turned and Jen and Ronda looked at each other.Random 6 and 7, formally known as Victor and Sasha!

They put down 4 Jaeger shots in front of us.

Ronda contemplates whether to take it but knew she had no choice.

Jen just looked at it. Then at Ronda. Then at the shot, before deciding that one can't turn down a free shot------it's bad drink karma.

Jen: "What do you guys say in Russian to cheers"Random 6 and 7: "Nazdarovia"

Jen: "You have to like booze, your Russian!!!!" Ronda Laughs Random 6 and 7 went down the normal route "are you from here?" - THE question of the night.Jen: "I am from Santa Cruz" blah blah blahRandom 6: "I am from the east coast just moved here"Jen: "That is the trend of the Europeans--come from the east coast to the west. I use to major in Russian History"

Ronda chuckles to herself. Stupid stupid Jen.

Ronda excuses herself to go use the bathroom, leaving Jen to the Russians, where she got to explain haptics as in "you are invading my personal space. Your hand doesn't need to be there bucko. Your hand need not be anywhere near me."

We stay for the obligatory five minute talk, since we did receive a free drink, then meander back outside.

At this point, we don't want to sit alone.We ask some drunk group if we can sit at their table so we could actually have one conversation without being interrupted. Alas, this did not work and Random 8 gives us both beads.Random 8: "You girls from here?"Jen and Ronda look at each other and say thank you and continue on their conversation, switching tables again.

At this point, the alcohol has set in and we have begun discussing friends, boys, randomness and more randomness. And some more randomness.

Jen: "I had a one eyed guinea pig as a pet.Ronda: "I had a one eyed cat"Jen: "We are one eyed pet friends"We laugh...

Ronda: "I think it was Suzanne's beach house when we first became good friends."Jen: "I thought we were cooler before but you're probably right."Ronda: "I just remember our walk alone on the beach where you confronted me and said

At first I didn't think I was going to like you, I thought of you as competition but now I want you in the club, 'JUST REMEMBER, men are like handbags, if they don't add to the outfit they are not worth it'"