Night on the town: sushi, Irish beer, and dancing

Fri. Feb 24 - Work today was crazy, I was running to and from ITT to the MWR Admin office all day with paperwork, time cards, etc. Leslie is leaving for 2 weeks on Sunday so we're trying to get ahead for the next week so it's not too crazy when she's gone. I had to go to the Admin office to talk to the big guy too about snowboarding for the rest of the month. The weather has been really rainy (which means snowing on the mountain) and stormy and Leslie and really worried about all the recent accidents we've had on the mountain. The south side of Etna (the side we go on) gets hit by the sun everyday so it ices over every night. I had to talk to him about whether or not we would cancel the trips for the future. We advertised them throughout the first month of March, but its not looking like their going to continue. We got our last order of boards in today (10 of them, their really cool looking) and that was the main argument point for the guys over at Admin. They want us to make some profit on them before the seasons over, but Leslie is convinced that the season is over. Anyways, after a lot of arguing (not with me though) we decided to cancel the trips for the next week and I just have to bring up a group of sailors from the USS Kawahawa to the mountain on Saturday. I got back to Gear-N-Go and started to wax the new boards. I got 4 of them waxed and I'll keep working on those next week if I find some time. My friend Joe came in a gave me a CD that he burned of all his pictures from Calabria. That was really nice and theres a bunch of videos on it of everyone jumping the ramp we made on the mountain last weekend. Mack and James asked if I would like to go to dinner with them in Catania at a Sushi Restaurant. I convinced Leslie and Amber to go to and we planned that out before we left work. They were going to pick me up at 8:30 so we could get down there by 9. I went home and got kinda dressed up since this place is really fancy and costs about 60Euro a person. They said they'd buy me dinner. Okay. It's kinda weird and I tell them no, but they make fun of how much I work and how much money I don't make. Mack always tells me I'm making like $3/hour when it's all said and done. The resturant was called Oxidana. We got there and I ordered Tamaki with tuna, avocado, and rice and Terriyaki Chicken for my main course. I ate some battered veggies, tried crab and fish roe. It was alright, the fish roe was too fishy tasting. I realized that Japanese beer called Asashi is really good. After dinner we went to Waxy O'Connells which is the Irish bar in Catania. It was crowded with so many Italians but we found a quiet table in the back. We stayed there for awhile but then headed back towards base. Before we got to where they were gonna drop me off, we decided we weren't done for the night. Theres a club called Strike across from NAS I so we went in there to go dancing. I danced of course and the music is actually American music. The disco was crowded and by the time we left, my bosses all left in a cab. You have to blow in a breathalyzer to get into housing or onto any base. I got home at 3:30am which is crazy cuz I have to get up in the morning to go snowboarding with that ship. Leslie leaves Sunday, but I think the office should be okay for awhile while she's gone.