Third Annual St. Louis/MVC Trip Recap

I've returned alive and well yet again from the annual MVC trip. For those of you who aren't familiar, MVC stands for Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and each year Creighton's basketball team plays in it. This is a mecca for Creighton alumni, friends and fans so my work goes down to throw pre and post game events and yours truly gets to go not only for free but for a spankin' good time. I'm telling ya - this place is like Vegas for me... nowhere else do you meet random Nebraska Husker football players, keep up traditions of falling asleep at least one night in a strange place with all of your clothes on - including shoes and your jacket and run into 3 ex-boyfriends all in the same hour, let alone the same night! Yes, talk about good times and great oldies... St. Louis is the place.

Usually - Creighton has an awesome basketball team and makes it to the Championship game. Well, this year we sucked it up big time and couldn't even make it past Bradley in the first round, but that didn't stop the fun times to be had!

My friend Jen who lives in Chicago as well as my famous party pal Abbey and her friend Amy all met up together for a good time. Friday night we went out and chatted it up with a group of married men who were there for a football coaching convention. See the photo up top to the right for a visual. When they asked what we were in St. Louis for, Abbey responded with "we're here for a lesbian convention." So as you can see - the fun just never ended with the randomness. They of course thought this was the best thing they'd heard all night. Luckily each of us had photos of our boyfriends handy to show them that we're actually straight and there for the MVC. So that was that night.

Saturday brought on a whole 'nother night of adventures but unfortunately it was just me and Jen as Abbey and Amy had had enough fun for one trip and headed home. So Jen and I sucked it up and hit the town... but not without first being stopped by 2 guys who thought we were locals and asked where the hot spots were... we told them where we knew of and went on our merry way. Thinking later we should have invited them to join us for dinner - as another St. Louis tradition is eating dinner with strangers!

After dining at the Hard Rock Cafe, we actually ended up going to the same place we were the night before so I could meet up with my friend Erin. And this my friends is where the fun times, ex boyfriend run-in's and the drama began...

We walk in and it's like Creighton has transplanted from Omaha to St. Louis... Everywhere I turn there is someone I know. First stop - I see my friend Kate along with a dude I went on one date with my sophomore year and who then later came out of the closet. He says to my friend Kate "wow, since when did Sarah Lukas get so cute?" I completely ignore the comment, give it a thumbs down and move on. Whatever - I've ALWAYS been cute! :)

So we move on to the dance floor section of the bar and Jen says to me "we have a looker..." 2 seconds later a guy comes over, tells Jen she's beautiful and they hit the dance floor. I'm left there standing alone like a loser. I decide I am definitely not drunk enough to deal with this so I'm off to the bar for another beer. On my way I run into my friend Erin and chat it up with her. A few moments later Jen calls and tells me to meet her in the bathroom - stat. I hurry over there and she's in there crying because she thinks someone threw up all over her. Luckily, it was just a beer that someone spilled on her but NOT cool. We go back out and chill with Erin.

Soon, I see my friend John approaching. Yay! More people to know! So we all talk with them. Fast forward a few hours and a few more beers into the night and I get a phonecall from another ex -... Scary Darrell! He asks where I am and stupidly I tell him... I tell John I'll pay him 20 bucks to pretend to be my boyfriend just so Darrell doesnt try anything (it's happened before!) So here comes Darrell (his real name is Dan), in a t-shirt with an extremely large camera bag slung across his body. Jen and John just start laughing hysterically and I'm trying not to laugh - did I really once DATE this guy? EW. So I chat with him for t minus 2 seconds and we're off! Jen has a photo of this encounter in which Ill post as soon as she sends it... Okay - so here's the photo from Jen! Look past my fat ass and there you'll see Darrell in all of his glory! EEK!

There were many more adventures in St. Louis but I'll have to add them seperately as they each have photos and deserve they're own post.

Here's until next year, MVC!