It was a good weekend. Saturday I did go to the Crab Fest with my girlfriend. I stopped at her house to pick her up and we sat on her porch and had a drink with her four little dogs. We had a phone text from a friend that said the Orange Elks was filling up fast. We left shortly after and the place was hopping.
It was a great feast. All the crab legs with butter all you could eat, chili,baked chicken breasts, rolls, butter, cole slaw and cake for desert There were never ending crab legs. The event was all volunteer and the guys said they had bought 140 pounds of crab legs. They were very good as was the whole meal. The best part was it was only $25.00.
Of course the usual drinks and people at the bar. The trouble with the Elks is that drinks are cheap and there is no end to the men that want to buy you a drink. I had promised myself that I would have no more then three for the whole evening and pretty much stayed to that promise.
As we were standing at the bar for our first drink a little Mexican man wanted to buy us a drink. As he was doing that this six foot four, black curly haired man with a black beard came up and to say hello. He too wanted to buy a drink, but that had been taken care of so we declined. He kept looking my way and finally came over and said he couldn't believe he had met someone at the Elks. Ditto!
Black Beard said he had to leave with his buddies to pick up someone that was at Huntington Beach but he wanted to come back and meet me somewhere other then the Elks. The crowd was starting to thin out so my girlfriend and another friend decided that Citrus City Grille would be close so we could walk there.
We were sitting talking to a group of people and Black Beard walked in. Now, you would think that would be a good thing but it ended up not being so. I swear to God that the men are either idiots, self absorbed, or you name it. I found out he had been homeless due to the downturn in real estate and a bad leg accident. He was climbing out, but living in one room on Workman's Comp, Vet benefits etc. Then I found out he was only fifty four. He was suing for a big settlement that he thought he had in the bag, but I know how that goes...good luck to him. Good Lord I'm old enough to be his mother. He thought I was in my early sixties and I didn't tell him any different. That put an end to that. Bruno may be a lot of things but at least he isn't on the dole and whatever it is between us it takes precedent over others, at least for me.
I drove my girlfriend back to her house and we sat on her porch and talked for a bit and I went home.
Sunday I met my other long time girlfriend in Newport Beach at Fashion Island to see a movie, The Way Back, and we had dinner after the movie at a French restaurant.
Monday was the Balboa Bay Club for lunch on my other good girlfriend and a little shopping. For me it was just looking. I'm trying not to spend money and it is hard. I saw several things I would have bought in the past. I don't need it, but...its hard to gear down, but I have to.
So the weekend was interesting and good. More adventures to come.
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