Happy New Year???

Since I've been under a studying rock for ages, I did not want to take time to plan what to do for new years. When one of my friends was getting a group together to go to one of those DC hotel parties, I just booked. Unlimited drinks, food, etc. and we got a room there so not too far to crawl. What an unbelievable waste of money New Years Eve was. If ever given the opportunity to go to the Grand Hyatt's Downtown Countdown party, just say no.

We went down to the Hyatt in the afternoon and got our stupid wristbands at like 3pm supposedly to avoid the lines later that night. We were starving, so we were going to walk to our favorite Thai place, but it was so freaking cold, we went to the first thing we passed, which was California Tortilla. We didn't want to eat a big meal because the menu for the party was so extensive. Little did we know that the shitty tacos we ate at 5, were going to be basically our only meals until the next day.

We go to the room to get ready, then we keep watching out the window inside of the hotel to see how many people are in line. We think that because we already have our wristbands that we won't have to wait. No such luck. We wait and wait and wait. What we are waiting for, I have no idea. Finally we get into the party and look for the bar. We wait in line for drinks and find out that they have the most random collection of ingredients. Basically gin and tomato juice and random shit that you would not drink. I end up getting a shitty vodka brand and cranberry. I order 3 because I don't want to wait in this line again for awhile. We were only allowed to order one drink at a time. WTF? There were thousands of people in lines everywhere and we could only get one at a time. Stupidity. The music was awful. We kept walking from room to room to room looking for better alcohol options, shorter lines, any of the 5 million food items they were supposed to have or at least some music that wasn't hair band or 80s music. We found none of these.

So then we basically say that after midnight, we are going back to our room. They didn't even do a freaking countdown!!! How do you have a NYE party without a countdown. The name of your stupid party is Downtown COUNTDOWN!!!

I was looking so forward to 2009 too. Hopefully, this is not indicative of the year to come.