St. Patrick's Day weekend

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!!! We had so much fun in Kansas City this weekend. Friday we arrived around 5pm at our hotel on the plaza and got things unloaded before going to dinner at the fabulous Figlio's. It's truly the best italinan food i have yet to find anywhere. there we 7 of us for dinner--my jess, nursing girls jessie, megan, ashley, justine, tammi, and i. then we were off to find a target and a liquor store. after some little bit of difficulty we located a target and got supplies. then, i stuffed 4 girls in my back seat and we were off!! we decided to stay in the hotel friday night and just hang out. meg and ash did go to the hotel hot tub and saw some disturbing should-have-been-private sexual activity there, so they came back to the room, after nearly being assaulted by 3 guys in the elevator! we laughed so hard all night long and called it a night about 3am i think. jess, tammi, and i slept in the king bed and justine, ashley, and megan shared the sofa bed. pretty comfortable night other than the early morning trash truck and then our sink dripping enough all night that it overflowed and was a bit surprising when you walked through the door way to hit the bathroom!! ashley took off at 9am and the rest of us got ready for the parade which we missed!! we didn't finish getting ready until noon and it started at 11 so we decided just to go eat and then go and shop. meg wanted us to go to the cheesecake factory and yes, the cheesecake is TO DIE FOR!! the food was great, company even better!! tammi headed back to emporia after lunch. the rest of us took off for our shopping day. tammi, however, got a little turned around and spent a hour or so just trying to get out of the plaza!!! i have done that too and it is SO frustrating!! she finally got different directions and went out by KU Med center where a girl was going psycho in the street and the rescue men were chasing her and eventually tackled her, but not before she came and ran into tammi's car while the traffic was stopped!! she said that she was sure it was the leprechaun's talking to her! we went to this new shopping district called "the legends". i had never been there and am really unfamiliar with this part of kc so it was a challenge finding our way there, and a much bigger challenge finding our way home!! the exit we needed was closed and you know detours are lots of fun anywhere, but they are especially helpful in DOWNTOWN kc!! WE WERE LOST FOR 2 HOURS!! i was so frustrated so by the time we got back to our hotel and we only had 2 hours for 4 girls (2 of which needed showers) to get ready for dinner and our night out! the hotel bar was absolutely packed with very loud and very drunk people and we could hear the same guy yelling even when we were in our room on the 11th floor!!! we decided to go to a restaurant megan called "baja 500" and my friend julie met us there. it's actually called "baja 600" but it will be forever 500 to me!! again, very good food. after several drinks we hailed a cab to take us to the beaumont club. of course, they block off many roads near the westport district for st. patrick's day so we couldn't get that close by car and 2 of my dear friends were wearing tube tops so they were a wee bit chilly!! we walked the 3 blocks to the club and initally, i was not pleased. it was playing only country music and it was extremely crowded and dirty but justine found us a fabulous place to people watch and we had a ball!! they played lots of different kinds of music and we laughed so hard watching these very drunken fools!! we never even went to the dance floor we just stayed up top watching!! they have an electric bull that you can ride too, but we steered clear of that for this trip. megan and justine managed to try to get into a couple of fights with men--but it all worked out in the end!! this one dumb guy had stepped right in front of megan and i on our way up the stairs and wouldn't move so justine decided that he deserved to have a tiny bit of beer spit on his head!! jess and i heard her talking about it, but soon, this fool who should not be allowed to drink was yelling at us, all of which we couldn't hear a word of...so he actually climbed up on a table to get closer to us...there were 2 guys on both sides of us watching and were ready to step in, anyway--jess and i were saying that no one spit on him when low and behold, justine did!!! i thought i was going to die laughing!! then he told me that me, justine, and megan were "hoes" so i simply said that my life would forever be changed by his view of us!! what a mess. jess and i kept a close eye on him though because we both felt that if he had the chance, he might not be done with justine who almost poured her beer on his head because he was going to spit in her face!! we also had a great time watching the "wedding guy" who clearly was not dancing with this wedding date, and this messed up fat girl who thought that she was very sexy whew.....alcohol does trick the brain!! we decided to head back to the hotel at 1:45am and as we were getting ready to walk out, this guy at the table behind us grabbed my arm and said "hey, my friend here thinks you are cute" to which i replied, "thank you. so does my husband" and i said goodbye to his friend. my favorite part of the weekend came next though...we flagged down a mini-van cab for the ride home. the other 3 were in the back and i was in the front as there was only 1 bench seat in the van since the other had been removed. so we start going and the cabby is on his phone with his friend talking in a language that we can't understand and he goes a few feet before he suddenly slams on his brakes and i feel this "bam" on the back of my seat as my darling and lovely megan is thrown from her seat and hits the back of mine!! i thought i was going to pee my pants!!! she didn't really get hurt but she immediately started saying (the entire way home) "sir, sir, my knee is really hurt. i'm serious, i think my knee is messed up, i may need to go to the hospital" and on and on and on!! during all of this, he put his phone down and forgot until i kindly reminded him that his friend was on the phone!! i really thought i might die and we practically carried megan into the hotel for effect. she said she was trying to get our ride free and was "taking one for the team"....we all barely made it to the lobby bathroom before wetting ourselves!! we stayed up until 3am again, finishing off the drinks in our room and doing fun things to megan when she went to sleep. we laughed so hard that today, our voices are all pretty iffy!! yes, we got many pictures!! some on meg's camera that will be a surprise to her when she develops her shots!! we got back to town about 3pm and i watched the kansas jayhawks kick some kentucky fanny and took a nap with my little boy!! i missed him so much!! jess was going home to sleep too and she's not yet taking my calls so i'm guessing she is out for the night!! it truly was so fun!! jess actually said that she hadn't had that much fun since before her mom had been diagnosed with cancer! i'm so glad she went and she really hit it off with my school friends. as i expected and predicted they loved her!! we all decided that we are definately going to do this again in the future!! embassy suites will never be the same!!