Paul’s Stag Weekend

Had a really good time!

Didn’t expect it to be – great bunch of lads, I started picking the lads up from Oxford around 10.15am, went to Tesco’s and got some food and drink and then drove to Leicester

They started drinking, when we got to the place there were four army tents that allowed you to have 8 men each, then also 4 tee-pees that would house about 4-5 people easily and they had stoves to keep you warm and cook and then also army bunk beds

Relaxed from 4.00pm onwards with drinks watching other people turn up and got to know the lads I was with. Had a kick about and then I did the food as usual – BBQ food, but other blokes were there for Stag weekends (no Hens whatsoever) so all very ‘blokey’.  Everyone just mixed in with everyone else – had a shed load of beers and then crashed out

Saturday morning – bit of breakfast, again I cooked, then we went gorge scrambling which entailed being in waterproof boiler type suits, wellies and wearing helmets and then literally crawling and scrambling through this huge great stream. Over, under and through – it was really good fun – such a laugh, didn’t expect it to be to be honest – we all enjoyed it.

Team-building experience, after a few attempts to empty your wellies of the water you just gave up and accepted you were going to be soaked throughout. Wet to the bone.

At the end of that, knackered, stopped for a beer then back to the campsite – more beers. Loads of us just had 20 mins shut-eye and then got ready to go out and the lady at the campsite organised a minibus to get us into Ashbourne. Nice enough village, Paul didn’t want to go to derby or a City, I think he was worried about us stitching him up and wanted it to be quieter and a normal night out but we had no plans to do that to him.

Got dropped off at a wine bar and it was a bit subdued and quiet and you could tell people were thinking it’s 7.45pm and this place is dead, is this really going to be our night until midnight. Had some food and played drinking games to try and liven up and make the best of it when Sunil came back from the toilets and said, “Guys, you’ve got to come with me and go downstairs”.

Went downstairs – it was heaving and was a huge rocking disco – we’d been missing out of this and thought the wine bar was as lively as it gets in Ashbourne!! So we were happy now!

Phoned the Taxi man to change pick up time from 12.30am to 2.00am and then just partied and it was really good fun and a laugh. Thought it was a gay club initially as it was packed with blokes but that soon changed as the evening bore on, no hassle or trouble or silliness, we just enjoyed our company and because there was nothing “extra marital” it was nice we didn’t have to hide anything when getting home and getting stories right.

So, Sunday I drove everyone home – was very hungover! Got them all home safely though and slept for about 4 hours in the afternoon, and that was it

Had a good weekend – look forward to seeing the lads again for the wedding.