Bachelor Party Part 1

Monday, July 9, 2012

I rode with Scott Cooper in his Scion to David's house in PA where we met up with Stephen, Mitch and David in the woods. Scott and I ran through fire grass in the woods trying to find David and the others over at the strip mine behind Dave's house.

After that we went to the Yuengling Brewery and went through the factory tour. It stank strongly of alcohol the whole time (obviously) and gave me a headache. After the tour we went to a New Jersey style diner called Manheim's and it was the classic 50s style with the mirror-finish walls and whatnot. I had a corn-beef on rye bread sandwich and David had some meal called a "Rachel." Our waiter was very nice and did a great job.

We stopped back at David's house and then went to the camp site which was pretty far away. I rode with Mitch and David in Mitch's van which reminded me of Cornerstone Number 1 in which we left the Indiana state park the next morning after the first day of driving and Mitch, Dave and I rode in this same van through the foggy cornfields and talked about the scary old lady in her house that David and Alex always passed on the way to school every day, back in high school.

At the camp site we made a fire, cooked hot dogs, made fun of Stephen and his veggie dogs. Stephen said something like this about the veggie dogs: "The thing is, when you eat a veggie dog you can't expect it to taste like a real hot dog...or to taste good." Then everyone but David and myself drink a ton of alcohol. Dan Angri, Scott, and Stephen all got pretty drunk.

At the end of the night Stephen got extremely sick and was dry heaving over the edge of the porch of one of the cabins. David, who had been pretty angry about the fact that this entire day was pretty much characterized by alcohol, got up out of bed and did everything he could to help and comfort Stephen, rubbing his back, giving him towels since it was so cold, and staying with him the whole time. We talked to Stephen's brother Chris while we waited out there with Mitch.

Finally, Stephen was able to go to bed. Mitch took David's bed since Scott, Daniel, and Dan were all being loud and drunk in the other cabin, I took the bottom bunk, Chris went in the Dan's cabin, and David slept in Mitch's van, after lying there for 45 minutes. His sleep schedule is way off due to working the night shift.