YSB 15 UYE | Spring Break Dance Crawl!

Damn, those ladies can party! Maybe it was like some kind of home field advantage, but our lovely trio of UYE dance sherpas/​benefactors showed no signs of slowing even going into the wee hours of night/​morning.
After our Pre-​Dance Crawl Dinner, it was over to Capone’s, then Dicey Riley’s, then America’s Backyard… & even further. But, I’ll admit, that’s where I fell out. I had the Funky Buddha tour the next morning & knew discretion had to be the better part of valor that night.
Though I didn’t go the distance, the part I did make it through was a blast. Capone’s was about warming up & getting in the groove. Dicey Riley’s was a nice interlude. & America’s Backyard was the hard partying I’d imagined for YSB in Ft. Lauderdale.
America’s Backyard was also doing free drinks for the ladies, a few of which may have ended up in my possession. Without naming names, thanks & I’ll be buying at YSB ’16! Thanks, too, to our UYE guides for letting us all party like locals.

In the profound words of Taio Cruz:
«I came to dance, dance, dance, dance
I hit the floor cause that’s my plans, plans, plans, plans
I’m wearing all my favorite brands, brands, brands, brands
Give me space for both my hands, hands, hands, hands
Cause it goes on and on and on…
And it goes on and on and on…» (.until we stop to get pizza, LOL!)
We started the night at Capones. It was pretty empty when we arrived, but they had their 3−4−1 promotion on well drinks/​cocktails. I liked that they gave you a little stamp card so it’s not like you have to order drinks 3 at a time (although there’s nothing wrong with that either). As the night picked up we made our way to the back where the DJ was. He even gave Unilocal a shoutout over the mic, yay.
Next we moved over to Diceys Irish pub. This stay was short-​lived. The bar area was too smoky and the change of pace to club dancing to live country music was off.
So we stumbled over to Americas backyard. This is one of my fave spots in this area. Lots of room to dance, penis bongs, and free shots in your mouth — what’s not to love, right? Haha. Ladies drank free until midnight, which we definitely took advantage of. No thanks to the one douche-​y bartender in the middle bar, though (UGH!). And fireball dude appeared and bought a round of shots.
Just as I was getting comfortable at America’s backyard, we decided to go for the next stop on the crawl, which according to Savanna’s review is called E-​bar. I just knew it as the place that gave us red cups or the place playing Latin music. We couldn’t for the life of us figure out where to fill these red cups (we were rejected by the bar at the front) or maybe the red cups were meant for other purposes? So we left confused with empty red cups.
What are we on now? Stop #5? We made it to Stache, but at this point the fatigue and hunger were settling in. As soon as we made it to the upstairs bar and stopped for a bathroom break, we pretty much headed out with a mission to get pizza.
Porn pizza, I mean Squiggy’s, to the rescue! Does this count as part of the dance crawl? It was definitely one of the most memorable stops, so I shall include it! Thanks Jenn S for ordering a huge pizza for us to devour. Here we wound down the night with more laughs, some memorable memes, and I think we met a couple of chefs?
This dance crawl pretty much sums up every crazy BPB after party (minus picklebacks) and I loved every minute! Lots of praise to the UYE ladies for an awesome night of dancing, drinking, and eating.

I bookmarked this yesterday because I forgot to review it! Oops.
I attended the Himmarshee UYE dinner before this, and it was a lot of fun. The group who went to the other dinner joined us, and we took off for the dance floor (s). Because I was also attending the Everglades UYE the next day (and had to be up at 7am … urgh), my roommate (Donna W.) and I only went to the first stop, Capone’s, but a fun time was had by all. The 3 for 1 drink special is a pretty good idea — with tip, you pay about $ 10 – 11 for 3 drinks, although they’re small — and although I didn’t go to the other 2 – 3 bars after Capone’s, I had heard that they were a lot of fun.
{side note: do a lot of Florida bars have stripper poles?! lol. I think I saw 2 with them, including Capone’s!}
Thanks to the Floridian crew for organizing this!

What better way to celebrate after the Pompano Beach Party than a dance crawl. When planning the UYEs for YSB we all agreed we needed to let our inner college students back out (it’s SPRING BREAK after all) and planned an amazing night of bar hopping in the Himmarshee area.
The night started off with 3−4−1 drinks at Capones where the DJ gave our group a few shout outs.
Next stop Dicey’s where more than a few of us all earned Soused badges! This was only fuel to the fire and made us want to keep on dancing.
America’s Backyard offered free drinks for the ladies until midnight so we got our fair share of liquor in here for about an hour. Based on the pictures everyone was having a blast with shots being poured and some even earning the Footloose badge!
After a quick stop into E-​Bar and taking the best pictures ever with our «free drink cups» (did anyone manage to get their drinks?) we headed over to Stache for another cocktail. (PS — these are actually the worst pictures ever if I remember correctly — and I was unconsciously doing my best pirate face in preparation for the day after lol)
By this time it was probably 2am, and our inner college students started to die off, but not without grabbing some late night pizza at Squiggy’s where we had some of the best laughs ever and created a few memes which will no doubt be viral soon LOL.
Overall it was an amazing night with tons of laughs and awesome pictures! So many memories!

Capones– First stop of the crawl. 3 for 1 drinks! And it only ran about $ 9, so the price was right! It took awhile for the music to change over to the nights dj, do while the other Unilocalers got their drink on, I went wandering to get my dance on!
Stach– A true speakeasy type bar. The front sign says «Kimmie Health Club», so you’ll know the sign when you see it. It was rather dark inside, but there wasn’t any music yet so I moved on pretty quickly,
Tarpon Bend-​this place was on the corner and I could hear 80s-​90s cover band music coming from inside. They had a band called High Maintenance playing all the typical bar faves («Jessie’s Girl», «Summer of «69», «I want you to want me») Although it wasn’t packed, it got hot pretty quick, so we made our way back to Capones which had switched over to a dj at that point.
Dicey Riley’s– they had a duo playing oldies and some country. The group didn’t stay here long.
America’s Backyard– this place was my favorite. The music was danceable, there was a signup for ladies to get a wristband for free drinks until midnight, and it was basically an outside club, so there was a bit of a breeze! Every so often, the male bartenders would get up on the bar and pour shot mixes into your mouth, so they were even giving out shots for free (sort of).
I had a 6am flight home in the morning, so that was my last stop on the crawl but it’s easy to see you could get in trouble on this block! Thanks to all the locals who showed us out-​of-​towners all the great watering holes and jam spots!

This was so.much.fun!
I think my favorite of the three bars we crawled was Americas Backyard!
It was awesome to hang with Unilocalers and boogie on down!

Awesome Dancing Madness In Ft. Lauderdale!
SITREP
Über-​elite Greshka masterminded the Spring (Break) Dance Crawl that commenced right after we finishted our dinners.
THE SETUP
And what a ton of fun it was as we *crawled* (or in my case, *waddled*) to the three (3) venues I enjoyed with the group before crashing:
* CAPONES — our first stop, and quite a mix with two (2) separate rooms of music and dancing going on in both of them. The 2^nd room also allowed smoking, which literally *caught my breath* since this is something I haven’t seen in California for a long time. But Florida is a state, so there you go.
Capones features a 3−4−1 drink special at $ 9, and you could get 3 drinks for $ 9. That made a lot of Unilocalers quite happy.
* DICEY RILEY’S BAR & RESTAURANT — my second stop, and this was a live band (though I should say DUO, but their range in Country-​Music was pretty impressive). Actually did a little swing dance with Alma which was quite fun! But comparatively speaking to the other 2 stops, this was a quick one. And off we were to…
* AMERICA’S BACKYARD — the 3^rd (and my final) stop. I honestly don’t know yet if there were other stops after this [but I had to *ghost* at midnight to get ready & rest for the Saturday morning excursion to the Everglades.] The music was all over the board, playing hip-​hop, electronica, house, etc., so there was enough to keep most of Unilocalers busy dancing where we happened to find ourselves in this really large club-​venue.
KUDOS
A shout out once again to über-​elite Greshka P. for setting up this event, as well as Ashley M. and Savanna M. who were also in attendance and helping sheperd us Unilocalers from one club-​venue to the next. You ladies ROCK!
THE LOWDOWN
A great time dancing the night away in Ft. Lauderdale