On Friday the 17th, a group of friends and I went on another Pub Crawl like we did in the Spring. The only difference is that we were required to wear the ugliest Christmas sweater that you could find.The point of the Ugly Christmas Sweater Pub Crawl was to raise money for a local charity. I have no clue what charity would be benefiting from a bunch of drunken buffoons wearing tacky as hell sweaters roaming from bar to bar, but apparently a lot of money was raised for them.
The pub crawl was in Downtown Fort Worth and consisted of visiting 5 different bars within walking distance of each other. The Schedule for the Pub Crawl is as follows:
- POAG MAHONE'S 6:30 - 7:15
- 7th HAVEN 7:15 - 8:00
- SHAMROCK PUB 8:00 - 8:45
- CHIMY'S 8:45 - 9:30
- DURTY CROW 9:30 - ??
The cool thing about this pub crawl was that each bar that participated had a ton of drink specials that dramatically cut the prices for beer and liquor. Beer could cost $1.50 each and wells were only $2.
I started at Poag Mahone's around 6:45 with Colin and Meredeth, who were both decked out in there most hideous Christmas Sweaters. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but toot toot, my sweater kicked ass. I bought a cheap sweater vest and a light blue turtleneck shirt that was covered in different snowflake shapes and sizes. To make the vest even more tacky, I attached 50 battery operated Christmas lights to the sweat and finished it off with an old school winter hat also with color changing lights.
Before the 3 of us went to the next bar, we played a couple of games and waited for Brittany to
show up, who was late as usual. Brittany finally showed up in time to have a drink at Poag Mahone's before we left for the 2nd bar.
On the way to the next bar, Brittany and I decided that we should eat something since the both of us came to the pub crawl straight from work and have not had any thing to eat since noon. In between Poag Mahone's and 7th Haven bar is a great taco stand called "Taco Head".
The Taco Head is just a small trailer that can barely fit 3 employees in there. One person will take the order while the other two make the food. Another employee will stand outside and clean up any messes around the tables and chairs that they put out and also bring out more condiments for the customers.
After devouring a couple of the best chicken and cheese soft tacos, it was time to rejoin the group in 7th Haven. The people who participated in the Pub Crawl grew quickly as did our own group. At the first bar, there only about 20 people who were associated with the pub crawl whether they were the organizers who were working it or customers ready to drink a heavy amount of alcohol. By the end of "Taco Time", the number of people doubled to 40 and Bohan, Mindy, Paul, Do, and An joined our group to enjoy festivities.
Since the participants in the Pub Crawl grew so quickly in the small space that is know as 7th Haven, it was time to go on to the Shamrock Pub and get a couple of seats so we could drink and sit down at the same time. Our plan did not work because even though we left the 2nd bar early, The Shamrock was overly crowded. But that really didn't matter because we found 2 seats right at the bar and we were ready to restart the fun.
Our group didn't really want to spend alot of time at the Shamrock because we all knew that Chimy's was the next stop of the Pub Crawl and everyone loves Chimy's. To be honest, I don't know what it is about Chimy's that makes it so great, but it just is. We spent the majority of our time here, mainly because we got a table that could seat our who group and also because I ran into a bunch of Zetas (a sorority) that I knew from college.
After a couple of beers and some nachos later, we relized that we were at Chimy's for about an hour and a half and we were ready to go to the last stop on the pub crawl which was The Durty Crow. I dont know how long we spent there because that place was a time vampire. At one point it was 10:20 and next thing I know, it is past midnight.
At the end of the night at The Durty Crow, there were giving away prizes for the 4 best ugliest sweaters. I, unfortnaly, did not win this prestigous award. But I did find $20 bucks on the floor, so it ended up being a pretty good night.
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