Senior Walk
I went to
many bars yesterday during my senior walk :3 . Wish I would have gotten one of the T-Shirts that were being sold, but you had to order them off of facebook or something, which I am not on :-/ . The T-Shirts took the DARE logo to say Determined Alcoholics Reasonably Educated (or at least I think it was that.. I know I got the Reasonably Educated part right) and then on the back had all the bars in a list with boxes to check off which ones you stopped at.
The Senior Walk is a great tradition at MTU, we start across the bridge over in Hancock and walk to every bar in both towns (14 but there were some 'secret stops') having at least one beer at every stop. Some started the walk around noon, me and my friends started around 3:30 pm. Me and my old roommate who came up to visit this weekend skipped the last few bars, they were getting way too packed at the end of the night, and there were a lot of cops escorting someone out of one of the bars. After walking the last mile and a half, up hill x.x, back to my apartment we ended our drunken journey around 11pm, at which point we drank some scotch and white russians to finish the night xP. Overall we walked about 3-4 miles I would say, and unfortunately a lot of that was in the rain, as the weather kind of sucked this weekend, but it was a great experience.
The Coast Guard and Police were awesome, and some of them even signed some of our T-Shirts xP . At one bar in a Ramada Inn, there was a dock out back and the coast guard brought their boat up to it to talk to us for a few minutes. Kinda sucks for those guys, they had to be on duty all day and all night - making sure to rescue anyone that might stumble off the bridge between Hancock and Houghton into the frigid Portage (water). The police were on guard at the bridge as well, directing traffic in the dreaded 'Yooper Loop', letting all the drunks walk by and stopping all the traffic for them. There are not many places I know of where you can be so drunk in public, with about 20 cops around you, and still talk shit with them and not get arrested, even though this is only a twice a year event.
There were a few marketing geniuses at the corner before the bridge - one family set up a stand to sell girl scout cookies. I'm sure they were sold out by the end of the night. I picked up one box to share with everyone and I saw a couple of people walk away with a couple bags full of cookie boxes. There was also a bakery that was selling foot-long hot dogs and more beer at just $2 a bottle - some of the bars had ridiculous prices on some bottles of beer.
many bars yesterday during my senior walk :3 . Wish I would have gotten one of the T-Shirts that were being sold, but you had to order them off of facebook or something, which I am not on :-/ . The T-Shirts took the DARE logo to say Determined Alcoholics Reasonably Educated (or at least I think it was that.. I know I got the Reasonably Educated part right) and then on the back had all the bars in a list with boxes to check off which ones you stopped at.
The Senior Walk is a great tradition at MTU, we start across the bridge over in Hancock and walk to every bar in both towns (14 but there were some 'secret stops') having at least one beer at every stop. Some started the walk around noon, me and my friends started around 3:30 pm. Me and my old roommate who came up to visit this weekend skipped the last few bars, they were getting way too packed at the end of the night, and there were a lot of cops escorting someone out of one of the bars. After walking the last mile and a half, up hill x.x, back to my apartment we ended our drunken journey around 11pm, at which point we drank some scotch and white russians to finish the night xP. Overall we walked about 3-4 miles I would say, and unfortunately a lot of that was in the rain, as the weather kind of sucked this weekend, but it was a great experience.
The Coast Guard and Police were awesome, and some of them even signed some of our T-Shirts xP . At one bar in a Ramada Inn, there was a dock out back and the coast guard brought their boat up to it to talk to us for a few minutes. Kinda sucks for those guys, they had to be on duty all day and all night - making sure to rescue anyone that might stumble off the bridge between Hancock and Houghton into the frigid Portage (water). The police were on guard at the bridge as well, directing traffic in the dreaded 'Yooper Loop', letting all the drunks walk by and stopping all the traffic for them. There are not many places I know of where you can be so drunk in public, with about 20 cops around you, and still talk shit with them and not get arrested, even though this is only a twice a year event.
There were a few marketing geniuses at the corner before the bridge - one family set up a stand to sell girl scout cookies. I'm sure they were sold out by the end of the night. I picked up one box to share with everyone and I saw a couple of people walk away with a couple bags full of cookie boxes. There was also a bakery that was selling foot-long hot dogs and more beer at just $2 a bottle - some of the bars had ridiculous prices on some bottles of beer.