Xmas in T-Town

Jeff came to visit his family for a whole week so we needed an obligatory day of "sight-seeing," which slowly devolved into a whirlwind tour of coffeehouses, restaurants, and plenty of bars. We were in search of a very elusive creature here in Toledo, OH: The LateTwentysomething. We hunted across town from North Toledo to Westgate, from Downtown to Maumee, finally settling near the Old West End. Nobody seemed to be anywhere. They were all spread out among the various bars in the area, never congregating in one place. Apparently the restaurants were feeling it too, the lack of the LateTwentysomething, when Jeff overhead a manager proclaim to a server, "Why can't we get more people like those?" Seeing as there were only 5 other people in the restaurant and not a one of them was in our dining area, you'd think he might just settle for the "more people" part all on it's own.

Just when we were getting ready to call it quits and take our show on the road to Ann Arbor, we found a pocket of this mysterious creatures at a new bar. Not only had we stumbled onto a party, but we had run smack into the center of an old friend's party, a friend we hadn't seen since the last days of college. It was revitalizing to know that somewhere in the sprawling metropolis that is Toledo, there still beats the nightlife of the single LateTwentysomething. Now if I could just track its next move...