St. Paddy's Day Party And the Crub Crawl

After I got back from my home leave and met my new room mate it was only one day away from St. Patricks Day. As you know, this is a big holiday in Ireland but I don't think too many people have a clue what it means here in China. However, I think there are more Irish folks here than in Ireland. Rami's wife Wendy is from Ireland and she love to have a good party, so, she planned a big official Irish dinner party for St. Paddy's day. She invited the normal list of people. She was planning on having a traditional Irish meal. Shepperd's pie, Irish Stew and of course, bread pudding. The evening was planned and the party was on.

For a weeknight this was a good idea to just have a dinner planned. I of course thought that the night would not be complete unless Roxanne joined us. Before I went down to Rami and Wendy's apartment I took Roxanne and made sure she looked good for the party. I put my coat around her and we headed down to Wendy's apartment. We went down to the 6th floor and I walked up to their apartment. I rang the door bell. To my surprise, a person I have never seen before answered the door. Well, here I am, standing there with my room mate on my arm in her under ware and I am looking stunned. The lady just looked at me. All I could say is that she was my girlfriend. I was trying to understand why she was in Rami's apartment. Then I suddenly remembered that they had moved apartments to another floor. I just could not remember which floor. She said she didn't know either. Well, standing there with a blow up date it dawned on me they had moved to the 9th floor. I just thanked her and went on my way up to the 9th floor.

I got up to the real apartment and found the party in full swing. Roxanne and I settled in and enjoyed the food which was prepared by Wendy. It was all delicious. We had a good time for the rest of the evening. Everyone enjoyed the company of Roxanne as well. This was a good party for Roxanne to get used to the crowd we hang out with. There was a party coming up the next weekend to celebrate the true meaning of St. Patricks day. That being drinking, drinking and more drinking.
Roxanne's first official party. This primed her the coming weekend

Now Friday evening came around and it was time for the first annual Dalian Crub Crawl. This Crub Crawl was born from a few of the wives that we busy drinking one afternoon looking for something to do to celebrate St. Patricks day. Well, Wendy, Lisa and Barbara came up with the traditional Irish celebration of a pub crawl around the city. The problem was that Barb had a little too much to drink and when she went to say Pub Crawl it came out as Crub Crawl. Hence, the official name was born.

They had t-shirts made with the name and all the names of the bars on the back. We all looked good in our t-shirts.
Here is Wendy showing off the front of the official t-shirt Here you can see the back with our starting point, The Real Eddies

We started the night out at Real Eddies. He always some good food and spirits. We ate dinner and before we knew it, we were off to the first Crub.

Our first Crub was the Cafe Vienna. A nice little establishment which we frequent often. The night was started. Our next stop was Obsidian. In between the two bars I decided that Roxanne needed to join the party. I went back to Shama and got Roxanne dressed up. The rest of the night Roxanne was busy entertaining the crowd.

Here Roxanne is meeting new people
What a popular girl

Devin was our leader for the night.

Even the local Chinese folks enjoyed Roxanne.

After a couple pubs Roxanne and the rest of the crowd was getting pretty rowdy. Obviously alcohol had a lot to do with it. Roxanne continued to meet people but also started getting a little wild. She began to do some pole dancing and hung from the rafters. I guess I just can't take her anywhere.
Mo I think is now Roxanne's BFF

What the heck, she actually made some money doing this.

Devin didn't mind that she was becoming a floozy.Of course, no party is a party without Rock

Roxanne caught Cindy & Wendy talking about her.

She just wanted to be one of the girls and hang out

She kept ending up back at the poles in the pubs.

Danny and Brian were ready to go to the next bar.

Roxanne was everywhere that night.

Brian and Rami didn't want to be left out.

Our last stop for the night was at the Focus bar. This is the loudest place and I couldn't keep track of Roxanne. She went off with Rami and the last I saw, her under ware came flying across the dance floor. It was time to get her a little more clothes. She was able to get a shirt and her under ware back on.

Someone was kind and gave her a shirt. Now an official member.
Brian and Danny enjoyed the sights at Focus Bar

After this wild night I still got to go home with Roxanne even though I think a lot of people would have like to be in my spot. Oh well, their loss. The unfortunate thing was that by the next morning, Roxanne was a flat. She has never recovered since that wild evening. I am guessing she is just not Irish.

From all of this, our team had a fantastic time. Some memorable items and some they just can't remember. After this wild night, the next focus was planning Kathy's 50th birthday. That will be in the next update for this blog.

Who is that in my bed????

So, after a nice relaxing time at home in Arizona I headed back to China relaxed and ready to start working again. I actually left on a Saturday this time which means I would end up in China on Monday morning. The flight was a good flight with no delays until I got to Seoul Korea. Once I arrived there after a 14 hour flight from LA I found that my flight was to be delayed going to Dalian. I am not sure of the reasons but it was delayed a least an hour. Once I finally got on the plane and headed to Dalian it ended up being one of the bumpiest flights I have ever taken. Now, I don't normally get motion sickness at all but this flight I actually felt it. It was so bumpy that I actually started to feel queezy. It is only an hour flight and with an hour time difference I did not get into Dalian until just about noon. I was supposed to be there at 10:45am.

Nicholas was waiting patiently there for me as always. He seemed to be happy to see me. The weather was cold and cloudy. He gathered my luggage up and put it in the car and we headed toward the DDA area. I was still feeling pretty sick from the flight and Nicholas had the heater on in the car and that made it just that much worse. I finally had to open the window and get some fresh cold air or else he might have seen what I had for breakfast. The drive took the normal half an hour or so to get home. Once I pulled up to the Shama I got out, gathered my luggage and sent Nicholas on his way home for the day. I was going to do nothing except rest the remainder of the day.

As I walked into the Shama I noticed that Barbara and Wendy were sitting in the lobby. They both seemed excited to see me and asked me about my flight. They were wondering why I was late getting back. I told them about the delay in Korea and how rough the flight was from there. I wasn't really tired but my stomach was still a little upset. We chit chatted for a few more minutes and I said I was going to head upstairs to take a shower and get unpacked. They were very cordial and said they would see me later. They asked me if I needed any help or anything but I said I was good. I knew that Barbara had been taking care of my plants while I was gone and I thanked her for doing that. I said I would get the key back from her later.

Well, I headed up to my apartment. As I got to the 18th floor and headed around the corner to my apartment I had noticed the "do not disturb" sign was on my door handle. I really did not give it much thought and figured the maids put it on there so they knew not to enter my apartment everyday to clean while I was gone. That just made sense to me. So, I put my luggage down, dug out my key card and opened the door. As I opened the door I saw that someone had been in my room. It looked as though a wild party had gone on. There seemed to be baloons and confetti all over the hallway. This is what I saw when I opened the door.

view from my doorway walking into the apartment

Well, as I walked in further into the apartment I noticed even more baloons. But, it was not confetti on the floor, it was rose pedals. I thought then, this was the last time I was going to give Barbara my apartment key. There were baloons every where. And the rose pedals led to my bedroom.

I was thinking that the gang went to a lot of trouble to decorate my apartment and give me a home coming with baloons. I figured that my bedroom was going to be filled with baloons when I opened the door. As I approached my door I notice is was slightly open. As I pushed it open I noticed there was someone in my bed. That really freaked me out. I thought who has been in my apartment while I was gone. I slowly opened the door and this is what I saw.

What or who the heck is this sleeping in my bed. Should I wake them?

Then I began to look around the room. I was absolutely amazed at the sight I saw. There were a pair of high heels at the end of my bed. Baloons and rose pedals all over the floor and on the bed. A bottle of wine and two wine glasses half gone on the nightstand.




On top of that there were packages of condoms on the night stand and all over the floor. Multi colored ones no less. Then I actually went to pull the covers back and was amazed at what I saw. I was a blonde woman sleeping there. Not just any type of blonde woman, but a true blue, very real like blow up woman blonde.

Meet Roxanne.


When I pulled the covers back even further I found she had a baby with her. Yes, a chinese speaking baby and when I pulled the covers back she spoke chinese to me. I am not sure what she said but she would not shut up.

Now that is one sexy blonde huh?

I now was in complete and utter disbelief. The first thing that came to my mind was Barbara and Wendy. Now I know why they were so happy to see me and why they were waiting downstairs in the lobby for me to get home. I am sure at this point they are laughing their butts off downstairs. I started to walk around the room and looked at what else is out of place. I went into the bathroom and found that "Roxanne" seemed to have moved in. She had her toothbrush, hair comb, makeup and other woman things all over the bathroom. There was even a pair of red lip imprints on the mirror.

Women always take over the bathroom with all their crap.

Ah, but wait, it doesn't stop there. Not only was there now a woman in my apartment with a baby but I looked on my night stand on the opposite side of where the wine was and to my disbelief I found a vibrator, love get and a couple of goldfish in a bowl. Yes, goldfish. I come to find out by way of a special note sitting on the night stand that their names were Randy and Candy.



Here is what the note said:

"Mr. Greenwald,
Thank you for allowing my family and I to stay with you. There is "nothing" I wouldn't do to show my appreciation.

P.S. Please don't forget to feed Candy & Randy.

Love,
Roxanne"

Now how is that for a home coming? An instant family. After all this and getting my mind straight, I called Barb up. I explained to here that I will never lend her my apartment key again. She obviously denied everything and said she did not know what I was talking about. I told her I was going to do an DNA test on the lipstick pair of lips on my mirror. All she did was laugh and told me it was Wendy's lips. I was absolutly amazed at the amount of work they went to for me. I really feel loved and missed. All I could do the rest of the day was sit and think what it must have been like for them to go around and buy all this stuff. An anatomically correct blow up doll with all parts that can be used for a lonely guy, a multi colored package of condoms, sexy underware for Roxanne. A nice pair of Hooker high heels and of course the two goldfish. On top of all this, I was told to be sure and feed Candy and Randy but there was no fish food to feed them. I ended up feeding them crackers for a couple days.

Well, it took me about an hour to clean the place up. I had to make sure it was in good shape for when the maids show up to clean the place. I didn't want them to think I was some kind of a weirdo or something. I wasn't quite sure what to do with Roxanne. I couldn't leave her in my bed or the spare bedroom. So, I decided to gather up all the baloons and put them in the front bathroom. After I did that I thought it would be a good place for Roxanne as well. So, I put her in on the floor amongst the baloons. I figured why not, after all she obviously is a parting type of a girl. I just wish I was around the next day when the maids opened the door to this sight.



Ah well, all in good fun and it was a lot of fun. It doesn't stop there though. My next blog will fill you in when I went on my first date with Roxanne. You will not believe it.