How I spent my summer vacation … part 1: Minnesota
Sunday, September 25th, 2011… now that Summer has been officially over for a few days.
First up — early July. Mark and I went up to Stillwater to celebrate Mark’s brother, Nick’s, birthday. They were doing a downtown Stillwater bar hop.
First up, dinner at Nacho Mamas — an AMAZING Mexican restaurant and bar. Mark and I split some street tacos and I ordered what apparently was the most disgusting drink I’ve ever had — a Sangarita — half sangria, half margarita: all a bad idea.
And of course there was a birthday sombrero, which Nick sports here (yes, you can definitely tell Mark and Nick are related …)

[photo credit Justin Yunke]
Aaaaand there was a discovery that Naked MJ lives in my purse for opportune moments like this:
Then we headed over to a bar that used to be a pretty decent watering hole that turned into kind of a lame pub-themed bar.
Did I mention I was kind of exhausted? But this photo is one of my favorites of all time (thanks, Justin!)

[photo credit Justin Yunke]
At this bar we ran into the infamous (slash probably not famous at all) Johnny Rock (the dude with the hat). He had a business card. With Johnny Rock on it. Yeah.

[photo credit Justin Yunke]
And apparently I wasn’t having enough fun, so Nick made me dance with him. Which was awesome. Because I’m a horrible dancer. And I’m super light-weight … so there was a few airborne moments (one below).

[photo credit Justin Yunke]
And I wish I had MY camera out for what came next: Stillwater’s version of Jersey Shore — The Freight House.

[photo credit Justin Yunke]
Take a moment to look at the website. Then imagine what the rest of the evening looked like. Let’s just say there were 3 of us on the dance floor. But there was intelligent analysis of pop music today going on out on the deck.






















































