Bar Hopping

A few things I learned on my first bar excursion:

1. If you want to blend into the specific bar we went to, wearing a white shirt with sleeves that doesn't show any cleavage, and jeans with no holes will not do the trick. Proper bar attire includes anything with a beer logo on it, at least one bandanna and at least one item of clothing that does not cover what it is supposed to. A tattoo or three wouldn't hurt either.

2. If you walk into a bar wearing the above mentioned "non-bar" clothes, and are accompanied by your husband and mom who are wearing similarly conservative attire, you will prompt the bar-goers who are smoking in front of the bar to ask out loud, "Are you kidding?" as you proceed to enter.

3. It is not cool (nor necessary) to be holding your id out like a police badge as you walk into Ogden's Hog Den.

4. If you order two diet cokes with no alcohol amidst several beer loving bikers, you will get laughed at.

There is, of course, a story behind this.

First of all, we technically did not go bar hopping. We went to one single bar. But, having never been to a bar before, both Brett and I technically doubled our bar attendance in one night.

We went because my Uncle Joe and his band Ask Sophie were playing there. This year he and his band mates Coleman and Cal took a week off and drove through Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah to play at various venues. This year their "tour" brought them to Ogden, and not wanting to miss out on an opportunity to hear them play, we of course decided to go.

This is the song they were playing when they got there, which is also one of my favorites.

You can check out more about Ask Sophie and hear some of their other songs here.