Suburban Tap Reunion

I've had a really busy couple of days, hence the lack of blogging. Hopefully I'll still be able to catch up by the end of December...

The first big thing that's happened this week was a sort of high school orchestra reunion that took place on Monday night at a local dive bar called Suburban Tap. See, Evan and I are hosting our second annual Walton Orchestra Alumni Holiday Party on Saturday, but since enough people said they wouldn't be able to come at that time, we decided to set up a bar night on the other side of Christmas to allow everyone to catch up with at least some of the group. As it turns out, the bar outing was quite successful, bringing in around fifteen of our classmates and friends. I stayed the entire time, from 9:00 pm to roughly 3:00 am when us few stragglers were kicked out. =)

Although I ended up regretting how much I had had to drink by the next morning, the night was easily one of my social highlights of 2008. There was a mix of people there, mostly orchestra kids, but also some friends of the group, and I even ended up making a couple new friends in the process (who also turned out to be the people I left the bar with). Turns out all three of them are ex-Jehovah's Witnesses who had all come to be really liberal free-thinker-types like me. The great thing about this was that although I do have friends who are open-minded like myself, very few of them ever really challenge me to probe deeper into my way of thinking, something that all three of them managed to do. Unfortunately, two of them (both brothers) live out of state and are just back for the holidays, so I probably won't be able to pick their brains that often, but still, it's really nice to know they're out there.

So, Suburban Tap was pretty awesome. Hopefully we'll get as many (or more) people out to the official party on Saturday, but even if not, I'll feel like all of this was a success, especially when you put the two together. Can't wait!

Christmas Song of the Day: U2 - It's Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)