Another Successful Happy Hour
Last night we met at Fado in DC. It’s an Irish bar down near the Verizon Center aka The Phone Booth. I was reluctant to wear a hat so people could recognize me, but James from DINKS Finance convinced me that a hat was essential so I wore my Washington Capitals camouflage hat. CleverDude just calls me anyway and then inadvertently plays hide and seek with me at the metro station. It was kind of funny to the casual observer. We were wandering around a huge pillar keeping ourselves just out of view of the other person.
Debt Hater picked the bar and I actually liked it a lot! It was a bit loud, but we were able to get a large table for all of us and their mini-burgers came with fries and tasty mustard. I walked out of there $22 lighter for a light dinner and 2 Boddington’s pints, but it was well worth it. Yesterday, I REALLY needed a drink.
I hadn’t seen Mrs Micah since Plonkee’s visit last year. Nor have I seen HC from One Big Mortar Board or Donna Jean from The Weight of Money in months. We also had some new faces appear, which is always nice. J from Budgets are Sexy and Jaylin from You Are Not Your Wallet joined us. I won’t tell you who had the faux hawk ala Capitals’ defenseman Mike Green, but it was pretty awesome.
If you are in the DC area, email me and I’ll add you to the happy hour list. They’re fairly impromptu and they don’t always have beer. (HC mentioned fancy hot chocolate somewhere instead. YUM!)
Beachgirl wrote:
Sorry that I didn’t make it yesterday. It was a long day. Hopefully I’ll make it to one eventually.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 9:01 am | Permalink
budgets are sexy wrote:
You’re awesome MG, thx for the invite! You guys rock.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 9:50 am | Permalink
Mrs. Micah wrote:
I didn’t even realize how loud it was until I got home and had a sore throat. :-p But a little milk, chocolate, and sleep cleared that right up.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 11:50 am | Permalink
Healthy Amelia wrote:
Hey Mapgirl!
I would love to get in on any upcoming happy hours. It sounds like you all had a blast. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to email you (yeah, I’m THAT new). Please elaborate and I’ll drop you an email!
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 3:29 pm | Permalink
donna jean wrote:
It was noisy? Totally didn’t notice, other than I constantly missed whatever was happening at the other end of the table. I’ll throw my vote in for keeping gatherings as far north as possible, but thats my bias showing through. I’m still dragging from being out too late last night (from the trip back home). It was lots of fun though, thanks for organizing!
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 4:25 pm | Permalink
Sistah Ant wrote:
Fado is pretty decent - I just ate there, on my job’s tab, a few months ago. The only place in the area that didn’t translate its sign (even Hooters did, if I remember it right)… I like the burgers.
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
Clever Dude wrote:
Hey, I wasn’t intentionally playing hide and seek! But yeah it was funny that we kept running around that stupid giant pole!
Even though I live in MD, I’m still fine with meetings in D.C. Anything along the Red Line starting with Chinatown is fine with me since I connect there to go home. Oh, and next time I’m at Fado, I’m definitely ordering the Irish Breakfast. I want to see how they do the black pudding. It’s been over 3 years since I had it last (on our honeymoon)!
Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 10:40 pm | Permalink
Megan wrote:
If only I had known. I actually work about 3 blocks from Fado. I’d love to be in on an upcoming Blogger Happy Hour. Like Clever Dude, I’m also in MD, but I’m open to anywhere. Given my job location though, I’m ALWAYS partial to Chinatown!
Posted on 18-Apr-08 at 8:57 am | Permalink