JONIZZLE

The Lost Night

right ok. so beth calls us up and says she wants to go out to eat tonight with everyone. so beth hannah and susan come over around 7 or so and we hang around for a bit. tyler ends up coming back from bball at 8, so we wait for him, no prob. so we leave at 9, im driving, there are 6 people in the car. alright, we will just squeeze in then. im driving along and we dont know where we want to eat, either we go to fairview heights or trek into stl, either way we would be driving for at least 20 min. yes, remember that, 20 minutes. so ok, im pulling up to the split where you have to make a choice which way to go, straight to fariview or head to the highway for stl. hannah yells stl. our last minute decisions would become a reoccuring event in the car.

so im going to stl like usual, on 270, and beth suggests going to the Central West End district of stl for some nice food. sounds cool. but you know, we are all talking and i miss the quick exit for 255, which leads to I55. ok no biggie, i will just take a left south on a street after i cross the river. im driving down and well, its going into the ghetto. we drive for a pretty long time without seeing any ways to get on a highway, but finally, FINALLY, after i pull some uturns, and go through this crazy and highly scary Arc de Triumph-esque round-a-bout, we get on 70. hehe, 2 white guys, 3 white girls, and 1 asian guy in a car with an illinois license plate in the middle of the stl ghetto. hmm, i wonder if people could tell we were lost??? but yea, back on a major highway, hurrah! we head back east towards the river and the arch since well, i assumed we wanted to go that way and beth or no one else objected. so we are driving on 70, and then i see a quick exit and well, i dont remember much, but i take it. and then i see that i cant turn onto a street, so i go straight. and this led to a bridge. that went back over the mississippi. great. we ended up back in illinois. oasd;kdsalksdlkdas.

so i turn around, and we cant find out how to ge back right away. now remember that beth hannah susan and matt are all in the back seat with beth on sitting on top of them. quite illegal. buuuut yea, after seeing the most confusing and ridiculous group of highway interstate signs EVER...we get back on the highway back to stl. so all is good, and i cross the river for the 3rd time that night, and exit onto stadium street, next to Busch. now im thinking where beth wants to go is in downtown stl or something. but i was clearly wrong. we figured this out after driving aimlessly around for 10 minutes in downtown stl. ridiculous.

once it dawned upon us that noone knew where we were going, beth and matt figured out how to get to 55, since beth said 55 would take us to where we wanted to go. so im on 55. woohoo, its only been an hour of driving around. thats right. an hour. im flying down 55 and once again we are all talking and laughing, and um, yea...it dawns upon us that we dont really know where we are since we had been flying down 55 for a good 10-15 minutes. and then i see a sign for Lihndberg blvd. lihndberg blv?!?!? daheck?!?! we were WAAAY far southwest of the city. not good. not good since none of us had eaten and it was 10. crap on a stick.

after lihndberg i see the sign for I270. my eyes light up, cuz i know where 270 is. ohhh yea. so we get on 270. but then...i dont see a sign for 270 East. only 270 West. to Kansas City. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! lkasjd;adlasdk;ldassd. so im freaking out thinking we are going even farther away, but then i notice a road sign saying 270N. ok ok ok, so im on 270 West and North at the same time. but then i remember that is correct, and that im close to the exit to go to the TPC. oh thank GOD. so i knew where we were. and we were f-ing far far away. we made a literal loop-dee-loop through saint louis. and we still had more to go. beth sees I44 east and we take that and eventually find out destination, the Central West End.

its a pretty cool place, lots of little restaurants and bistros on nice sidewalks, with Washington U close by, its like a rich collegey area. in the middle of it is a restaurant called Asian Grille. hey alright, its 1045, food! and its good food to! mmmm. we go in there and everyone really liked there meal. my korean bbq was cold though :( . but yea, good food, cool restaurant, i think we will go back there sometime. it reminded me of the ITASA retreat at northwestern last year, when a bunch of us went to that chinese place and grubbed for a good solid hour. roger and i finished everything then, this time tkast and i did.

hehe and i got ma po tofu...i asked for it like how my parents say it like "ma pu dofu", but yeam the waitress had no idea. but she was nice. good time, good time. after the meal we walked across the street to the "cartel", a coffee house that is hihgly popular among the gay community. and i was like "HEY! thats where cory always went last year!". it was carazy. i remembered him talking about it all the time. but yea, its not just a gay place like i thought, pretty much all mixed up. hannah and susan got ice cream, and then after that it was about 12, so we left.

and as fate would have it, i needed gas. and i got gas. and then i wasnt sure how to get back to the highway since we drove off looking for gas. so we took a right, and saw signs for the highway, but only to go west. and we do not want to go west. we live east. we need east. no east. left = east. sounds good. was it good? no. ksajd;lasdklsdakads;. we drove through another ghetto-ish area for awhile. but finally we found the highway. yay! but we couldnt find an onramp. askd;saldklasdklasd. luckily i realized we were close to Union Station and Club Liquid, and well, i know how to get hom from Club Liquid. so we are back in downton stl like we were 2.5 hours before, and oh finally, we find the exit. we find it we find it we find it, after making circle. we found it. and then i floored it all the way home.

so that was our exciting night filled with being lost.i used up half a tank, drove like 150 miles. wow. thats....not cool...but hey it was fun. hurrah for fun. hehe dang. this was long....