well, it was fun! we ate dinner (okay) played pool (okay) took a limo to Providence and drank the way down (dece) and then went to an all-n00d strip club. we intended to stay for an hour or so and then hit bars, but it took like an hour for the groom to even consent to a single lap dance (he is very timid) and we didn't know any Providence bars and didn't want to pay another cover, so we stayed 'til close.
reallly weird atmosphere. there are some neat things about it, and there are some really uncomfortable things about it. being packed in a room with five hundred rambunctious, drunk, horny men who are almost entirely people I would never, ever want to hang out with is very unsettling.
i had my first lap dance. it was neat, but hardly the kind of thing worth spending money on. some of the girls there are real assholes, though. we were basically paying for the groom all night, and there's this bar thing where you throw down a dollar and the girl comes over and shakes a little and then walks off...so we kept the groom with a dollar in front of him at all times. at one point a girl comes over, shakes, and grabs the dollar and is like JUST A DOLLAR?! all mad (while one of the dudes we were with was trying to give her another dollar; she must have thought he was just some pushy random dude wanting a shake of his own) and did the "talk to the hand" thing and walked away and almost made the groom cry. then another girl was being really aggressive to a member of our party and after she came back the third time and was like PRIVATE DANCE? he kind of laughed before saying no, and she PINCHED HIM really hard and was like "DICK!!!" and stalked off.
now aysha and lisa are all fired up to take our roommate bill out to a strip club on his birthday in two or three weeks. i dunno how fun a strip club is with your girlfriend there!
after the club we limoed back to Boston and the groom totally passed out in the car after rambling incoherently, so we aborted IHOP. I'm not posting the pics of him but Toby or anyone who knows the dude and wants to see them, IM me.