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What a busy last few days! So much to blog, so little time! I can't wait till I get my new laptop here at work - then I can finally work on this at home!

Let me bring you up to speed...Friday night - it was HOT! In case you don't live here - it's been 90 plus degrees for like 8 days in a row! Kind of nice for a Minnesota summer but after the 7th day I don't think it's fun anymore.

Friday night was supposed to be Erica and myself going downtown for the big block party and possibly hitting up the Sommerfest by the Minnesota Orchestra. And Zach was even going to meet up with us. Such the socialites we are.

Well, after spending much time scouring the local malls for a cute brown tank top - I located one at the Gap. Did I think to try it on? Nope. The shirt totally made me look prego...can't have that. Erica agreed with the prego shirt so I changed and off we went to the LRT station. For those of you who aren't familiar - LRT - Light Rail Transit. By the time we walked the five blocks to the station I was SWEATING! And I can usually handle the heat...but man was it hot! Luckily the LR was nicely air conditioned - two thumbs up on that.

We took the LR to the Lake Street Station - right in the heart of the hood if you want the truth. Here we walked four more HOT blocks to our dinner destination of the night - Manny's Tortas. Now, I know many are looking forward to the review of Manny's - but that will be a separate entry. Don't want to confuse the food reviews with my social fun!

After dinner we walked back to the station to head downtown. By the time we were back waiting for the train I just knew there was no way in hell I was going to sweat for the rest of the night at some block party. The bars never sounded so good!

We started at Rosen's at the recommendation of Erica. Here is a tip - she needs to read more reviews! Rosen's totally SUCKED! I mean seriously! These people acted like they were SO BUSY! The place was full but I would not say packed...it took us...get this...35 minutes for a small order of fries and chips and salsa. 35 minutes? I mean did they have to run to the store first? The waitress apologized saying, "they were really swamped". Who is she kidding? Anyway - I WILL NEVER GO TO ROSEN'S AGAIN! Don't invite me there, don't send e-vites for there, NEVER GO THERE! Read Erica's blog for some food reports...

After Rosen's I established a two drink minimum for each bar...we headed to our standby Champps. After sitting at the bar and waiting for Erica...each bartender asked what I needed. That is three bartenders - excellent service. I started off with a margarita and debated about what dessert to order. After settling on the cookie with ice cream it arrived sans not enough ice cream. I asked my new bartender friend to hook me up with an extra scoop and he did! After my second drink - classic standby of Rolling Rock in a bottle with lime...we asked for the bill. This bartender charged me for my scoop of ice cream! I felt cheated! I was just asking for a hook up not $1.75 charge! Needless to say...small tip for him! He can take it out of his ice cream robbery!

Last stop of the evening - earlier favorite in the week...Lyon's Pub. By far the best stop of the night. Nice bartender (even switched out Erica's "yeast tasting" beer for a fresh one) and good convo. Not super busy (everyone was outside in the HEAT!) and good beer. However, I did not drink here - Erica had my two drink minimum. I was dying because I was so damn full! If you are not following along here I have been snacking all night long and I was dying!!! Learn your lesson! My advice - drink or eat but not both!

On the way home we entertained the Light Rail guests with Erica's rendition of the kidnapped girl from Silence of the Lambs. Weird? Yes. Funny? YES!! But then again it was our night...

And what happened to Zach? Hmmm....