Cooper's First Pub Crawl

Today started out pretty innocently, but didn't stay that way for long.  We went to church in the morning - wanted to speak to the pastor about what Lori needs to do to join this congregation and also would like to get Cooper's baptism on the calendar at some point soon. 

Lori had to leave the service early to meet up with Van.... They had a huge list of open houses on the Upper Eastside that they needed to check out.  Yup, and Maria stayed at church with Cooper. The kicker? It wasn't a normal service!  Palm Sunday, communion, Easter show, and then all the normal stuff on top.  Oy vey. 

Maria and Cooper walked through the park, met up with Sarah, and they walked for a while before finding a good place with an available four-top (with room to park a stroller) where we could get a glass of wine and a bite to eat. This was our only intention for the day.  

Maria and Van were the Bad Idea Bears, and decided it was a PERFECT day for Cooper to go on his first pub crawl.  Pub crawl.  And we are not even going to talk about this past Friday night, and the 5 bottles of wine the four of us went through!  We were up until 2am. Scandalous. 

Anyway, after leaving Uva and buying Mega Million (ya gotta be in it to win it) tickets, we got the great idea to call Elaine.  She valiantly got her shoes on and joined us at Johnny Foxes. Yay!  We love Elaine! Wine and fried food. Breakfast of champions. 

Next stop?  Headed to Ship Of Fools for more drinks and even more fried food. Elaine bailed after a few minutes bec her dogs were sending her text messages that said they needed treats right away. Posthaste.

Lots and lots of drinking from bottles happened throughout the day.

How cute is he???