downtown Savannah

As soon as my eyes open it’s clear an open bar at our wrap party was not the smartest way to start the previous night.  I can barely remember the trolley ride to The Mansion in Historic Downtown Savannah when The Lady received an alias so we could sneak her into the party.  A couple hellos, a set of songs from the band and a few stiff Maker’s Mark later we’re stumbling with a group of thirty to an overcrowded bar called Circa where the patrons were older and I’d tend to say upscale and southern snooty.  We managed our way through the crowds and ordered a couple glasses of Riesling and Whiskey but the best part of the bar is the smoking alley out the side door. The crowd began to break up and we heard the Black Lips were playing at Jinx so we broke away from the production group and started on our own adventure. Music coming from Mercury Lounge veered us off course so we had some whiskey and danced to the blues. The lady can shake her hips and I love to spin her around the dance floor. I can’t remember the band’s name but when they took a break we decided to get back on course, but when we got outside the overwhelming smell of pizza hit me and since the wrap party didn’t have any food I needed a slice to start absorbing some of the alcohol so we hit up Sweet Melissa’s on the corner Congress.  The lady stayed outside dancing on street and I watched her through the window moving to her own music as I stuffed my face with a great pepperoni and black olive slice of New York style thin crust.  Firing on all cylinders we make our way down the street to Jinx where we are lucky to find some of our friends.  “To all my friends” is being shouted by everyone and the lights on the stage light up about 12:30 and that’s about the same time Lights went out for me.  Memories come and go after that but I know we bought a banana smoothie for our cab driver because as I run past the remains of our late night Krystal fast food feast I remember his smile just as I make it to the toilet and lose my dignity but over the sound of it all I can still hear The Lady tell me the rest of the night was great and that her favorite part of the bar was the bronze sculpture of a beautiful woman with a pig nose. 

http://www.mansiononforsythpark.com/
http://circa1875.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mercuryloungesav
http://local.yahoo.com/info-31496296-sweet-melissa-s-savannah
http://www.thejinx.net/