Stripper Charity Car Wash

Yes, you read correctly! It's 109 degrees outside on a Sunday, what to do but go get your car washed by strippers, for charity. What? It's for the kids!

So you might have read in our Shady Lady post that we met a dancer last week and bought advanced tickets for the car wash. They were raising funds for a freakishly tragic story of a kid (Baby Angel) that was attacked by his dad while pepped up on PCP and is now blind and in child protective services. It's a terrible story, and I think only strippers would be bold enough to take on such a gruesome story for their charity. It's a messed up world, and thank goodness someone is helping this kid out.

Okay, so back to the ladies! They had a great setup with a water slide, drying station and about 20 girls washing cars in bikini's. I really don't know what else you could want.

TheJenny brought her car, NakedBob rode his bike, RobotGoBen & Scribby came in the Smart Car and Gavin was in his truck. (By the by, having girls along helped the whole thing from just being a creepy sausage fest).

Our friendly dancer from last week was there and did some nice scrubbing with her booty. And they totally washed NakedBob's bike...and NakedBob.

TheJenny hung up some $1 bills in her back windows and that was a big hit, those girls worked for it. All in all, a great way to spend an afternoon.

The Boxing Donkey

300 Lincoln St
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 797-3665

Back at the Boxing Donkey! Their happy hour is awesome with $3 proper pints of Guinness and half price appetizers, it's always worth showing up early. The fries have some sort of savory seasoning on it that we couldn't place but are good. The Irish eggrolls are fabulous, what a great idea to do corned beef and cabbage in an eggroll form.

We claimed the only booth in the bar area and packed it full, than got some chairs from the dinning room and took over half of the other area. There were some coworkers of TheJenny & Jarla that showed and were fun to hang out with. Bumpy finally made an appearance as well.

With a nice big group, there was Shepard's pie, burgers, potato skins, and of course mac & cheese with dogs. Yum. Lots of Guinness and Blue Moon were ingested. Their soda machine wasn't working which is a bummer if you want jack & coke, rum & coke or anything like that. Their waitresses are just so damn nice and helpful, it's hard to get mad.

It was pretty hot, so we keep trying to steal the large fan to point in our direction. As for the topics of conversations, you guessed it. Michael Jackson. Poor bastard died today, and that only allowed a few hours for Farrah Fawcett to get a little glory after she passed away.

It's been a weird week for celebrities!

The Shady Lady

1409 R St
Sacramento, CA 95811-6615
(916) 231-9629

Ohhhhh, new place!!! It's shiny and new, let's go tarnish it a bit!

So here is the skinny. Speakeasy feel, decor, servers and lots of gin drinks. Lovely tin ceiling, booths, velvet and risque women on the walls. U-shaped bar, open layout, dark colors and old tyme music. Opened by folks who have been in the industry in Sac for quite a while. (you will recognize the staff if you ever go out after midnight in Sacramento). Bar first, food second. Not to say the food isn't good, it's freaky tasty... it's just the vibe. You come here for cocktails and get some food to go with the drinks, not the other way around.

There isn't really seating for a group of over 8, so we were split up between the largest table with some stragglers at the bar. S'okay though. Thank god, someone can make a gin gimlet without rose's lime juice. They don't use any of that kind of thing, even make their own tonic. Lots of rum, whiskey and gin drinks - you know, like the 1930s (see the pattern here?). Vodka and tequila are relegated to the back page...order your cosmo somewhere else please. And they have $2 Olympia as well - boys were happy.

Food was all super yummy. Small plates means a small amount of food, also refreshing. I don't need a giant pile of cheese covered iceberg. A lovely small pile of crisp french green beans with a light vinaigrette is just fine with me. Cheesesteak and meatloaf were well received as well.

The "Lone Wolves" at the bar were having a fine time. Nairb and NakedBob struck up a convo with some dancers. They were selling tickets to their charity carwash on 6/28 at Deja Vu Showgirls, yes, it's a stripper, charity carwash. Did we buy the $10 advance tickets, why yes we did! BTW, you should totally go support them on Sunday, they start up after noon. $15 day of tickets.

Our guest dancer wrote this in the journal...
"I love Nakedbob and here's why: His bike is like a Ferarri. He high fives me sideways. He hold intellectual conversations, has the hottest husband ever, hangs with hot middle eastern friends named Nairb and asks me to draw pictures like this" (pic of bike & Sweet Melissa)

Two questions: Why are strippers so good at remembering names? And when did Nairb become middle eastern?

Overall, we love this place. Granted, we really wanted to love this place. It's a nice chance from a lot of the douchy lounges that have been popping up over the past years. The vibe is more classically stylish and the clientele isn't offensively dumb. Three cheers!

Gavin obviously hated his food

Samarai Sushi

12251 Folsom Blvd
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742-6305
(916) 353-1112

You know, for a sushi place that is a renovated Denny's/Lyons/Eppies sort of building, this place is pretty darn good. Plus it is one of the few places in the middle of our very spread out group. Cameron Park, Natomas, Rancho Cordova, Roseville - yeah, this is the most equidistant place we can find.

And, they have the shortest urinal the boys have ever seen, 1 foot off the ground. Something to be proud of.

So, there was lots of fish, sake and beer. Plus a baby Fussarella that entertained us all by loving and hating lemon slices. They had a nice selection of specials that were cheap and tasty rolls.

Really the quotes set the mood...

"Like you need a kid to use a bib. Since when has that stopped you before?" Shooter to Crabby
"Sluggy has 'Penis Flair'" -Scribby
"You don't want to be sandwiched between NakedBob & Capt. Crabby?" -Sluggy

Annnnnd.... Scene!

Giovanni's Pizzaria - Natomas

2701 Del Paso Road

Sacramento, CA 95835

Back for pizza! NakedBob wore his very short tennis shorts and then commented to the girl behind the counter on how tight her jeans were. (actual quote, "Damn girl!...those are some tight jeans!") He figured if anyone could comment it would be the wearer of tight, white shorts. She didn't take it very well.

We ordered pitchers of beer, carafes of cheap wine and a large pizza. "Would you like a large pepperoni pizza with that for $5?" Why yes, we would! Their pizza is nice and thin, with good quality toppings, their meats are especially delicious and their salads are big enough to share.

The Icelandic travelers returned bearing gifts - we had a nice full house with a guest apperance by Caddie, all the way in from Walnut Creek.

You could tell we were having fun because one beer and one wine was spilled across the table. When I walked up to ask for a towel to clean up the wine, the guy peeked out from the back and asked, "Again!?". Yeah, sorry about that one.

Caddie share stories about her dead cat, Cujo and proceeded to describe him as a fur-covered, drooling, water weenie. That's a selling point!