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April 05, 2008

Three of my friends and i took a trip thurs-sun this week to Columbia, SC. One of our friends moved away to SC a few months ago, so we are here to visit. The weather sucks here today, but it was nice yesterday so we laid out by the pool for a bit.

We woke up, ate at Waffle House (always been a goal of mine), then drove around the town a little bit. I got a pretty good amount of work done during the late morning and afternoon, as most of my friends went back to bed or to the pool. Later I got a workout in, then we went out for dinner at this place called Mellow Mushroom. After coming back home and drinking a fair bit, we headed out to some random college bars. The cab ride over was unbelievable, this young cab driver had a laptop mounted in her car with a huge list of music videos. She let you pick whatever you watned to listen to, and then asked, "do you guys like loud music??" We were like, sure, and she proceeded to blast music so loud that my body was shaking. It was cool to watch the music videos on the laptop, tho.

We bounced around to like 4 bars, then felt mildly old being 23-24 in bars with kids that are mostly 19-22, and came home around 130. If anyone has good suggestions for dinner or bars around here, let me know, we'll be doing more of the same tonight.

Entry Tags: the, was, and, music, then, bars

Apr 5, 08 14:52:46

mellow mushroom fuck yeah! hippies are second only to italians when it comes to making za.

basspoet

Apr 5, 08 16:14:00

come visit CLEMSON, obv the better place to be, only a small trip and i think ud like the campus, we also have WA-HO's and Mello Mushrooms. O and if u are into seeing beautiful women, i think they all decided to go to school here!

JEMM3R

Apr 5, 08 16:17:34

Columbia SC is a shithole...Clemson is way better obv.

Charlotte is the best tho imo.

Anyway as far as places to eat at down there...anything downtown that's really busy is always really good but service usually sucks. Sorry I'm not more specific.

princessdonk

Apr 5, 08 16:48:46

COLUMBIA

Im 21 and go to school at USC. For dinner, go to Gervais street, which is the Vista, and try Sakitumi for sushi, or Liberty for regular food. For bars you either have 5 Points which is the younger scene but good bars like Sharkys, Red Hot, or Bays if u dont want all the freshman. Dont go to jungles. The Vista is kind of an older crowd, more expensive, Clubhouse is good. I would say go to 5 points if u want to party more. Have fun in Columbia.

Davidson1

Apr 5, 08 22:05:26

taylor come to ont, canada obv

hehateme36

Apr 5, 08 22:20:56

I think Speakeasy is the place to go in Five Points, but that's just my personal opinion... just don't hit on my girlfriend if she's there ;).

DonkE

Apr 6, 08 01:07:37

mellow mushroom is the ish we have one in ft worth

David B

Apr 6, 08 04:25:50

Yea, Mellow mushroom is the best pizza I've ever had, including NY and Chi

lastmansitting

Apr 6, 08 09:45:47

DonkE - your gf came home with us last night. she's nice.

Taylor

Apr 6, 08 17:24:00

Davidson, do you play live at all around Columbia, I'm 23 and just graduated...

and that is annoying that I didn't read this until now because I was getting drunk downtown all weekend.

apocalypse

Apr 6, 08 18:21:20

i go to USC as well.......we used to get a 1/2 game going in granby, but it faded out. i would love to find a new live game if ya'll want to start one up. oh, and princessdonk, clemson is a shithole filled with rednecks and inbreds who do nothing but study crops.

MGMGRAND

Apr 6, 08 20:45:08

suggestions

Bojangles in Ahoske, oh soooo good. OK I want to say something that I know a lot of people are thinking....Can we please retire the following:
IMO-Do you really need to say this? If you are saying something, obviously its your opinion! Way overused.
Baller-This is just a gay term from the get go.
Ship it-Old,used, needs to be replaced....
Thanks for you time people.

jackmighty

Apr 7, 08 09:07:34

I grew up in Columbia. You should go to Maurice's for BBQ. Goatfeathers was a popular hangout back in the day, dunno if it's still there.

Oh, just noticed you were only there through Sunday. Oh well.

burningyen