The Best Laid Plans…

Wednesday, the 9th, was supposed to be Latte Art day but, like most plans, we ended up putting it on the back burner to visit an ERACEIE member who wasn’t feeling the best. This actually turned out to be an absolute blast and allowed us to drink some awesome coffee, smoke some awesome tobacco pipes and divulge in even awesomer conversations.

We first met up at our normal meeting place but soon departed to Redlands to meet up with Mike Colston and visit Augies once more. Chris decided to purchase this lovely ensemble:

TRES CHIC

After we left the very fancy store where Chris got his clothes, better known as K-Mart, we finally arrived at Augies where we were very warmly welcomed by Mike and crew. Coffee purchasing was underway now and we started off with some sandwiches and delicious espresso:

After the heavenly drinks, Mike, Emily and Justin thought it would be a great idea for me and Chris to go head to head and do Coffee Bombs, basically its 12oz of milk that you drop a shot of espresso into and chug. I was none too excited about that…..

Alas, the competition went on and Chris was crowned victor.

When the debauchery was over we decided to take the party out to the alley-wayand fill the air with good conversations, coffee, beer, and tobacco. Emily and Chris actually got some pipes and we all got to look like British Railway Tycoons:

Throughout the night we made plans to go the culinary mecca, pay for Mike to be in the barista competition and visit England once more.

All in all the night started like this:

And ended like this: