Entertainment for Rachel's request. Let's give her something to laugh about!!
I was visiting CA on the 4th of July as I was planning to move there and start a new life and be with my boyfriend. His family is fairly wealthy and invited us to celebrate with them on this special $$$ cruise around San Francisco Bay with a 4 course meal and unlimited top shelf alcohol. This is really the first length of time I spent with them (including parents, 3 brothers and daughter in law), I wasn't much of a drinker before that day for anything but wine.
They started me off with Champagne, then gave me a giant glass of cab. -- I didn't notice that the waiter kept topping off my glass. Then, there was group shot session...and I lost count at 4 drinks total but others hadn't lost count and apparently I had 11. I was super drunk. We go up to the top of the boat to see the fireworks go off and it was really too foggy so I just started professing my love for this guy I had just started dating. Then, on the way back down the stairs, I started to have trouble walking. I was really dizzy and he helped me down the stairs and to my seat. Dessert was on the table. I stared at it for a few minutes trying to decide if anything else should enter my body. His sister in law came to tug on me to dance...somehow I ate a raspberry....and all of the sudden, I grabbed a napkin and threw up in it....and didn't stop there. They rushed me to a bathroom where I was for the rest of the event, puking constantly, my new boyfriend was holding my hair back, I was bawling about the first impression I gave his family and how embarrassed I was. I was inconsolable.
The the boat stopped and I had to come out and face them and the waiter who had to clean up after me and they were really nice and consoling....the brother drove us home and later I found out that the boyfriend had to roll the window down a lot and stick his head out because I smelled so badly.
When I got home, the whole family was laughing at me and started to tell me their drunken stories. I'm still incredibly close to that family, they have NEVER let me live it down.