I will admit that the memory is WAY fuzzy from this vacation. I am absolutely cashed from it. Very long, very relaxing, and I had a great time
Saturday 7/19 10am PST - About to land at San Diego Airport, and about what I would guess had to be 10 feet from the ground and UP WE GO for another go around, everyone freaking out, I have a **** eating grin on my face because I am all about crazyness in the air. Land and can't believe how cold it is and how many homeless people there are in San Diego
Saturday 7/19 2pm PST - Check out Del Mar, whoa, what a great place to see the races. Beach, babes, horses and Christina Aguilera. Ken Rudoloph needs to eat for like 4 days straight, he looks like Shawn Bradley. See Frank Lyons wearing a shirt with his chest hair sticking out, couldn't stop laughing
Saturday 7/19 8pm - Go to dinner with Satan's Twin at Bully's North, amazing ribs
Sunday 7/20 10am - Go to breakfast with Satan's Twin, go to pay bill and CREDIT CARD DECLINED, what the hell?? (Later found out that someone charged $1500 to a Full Tilt Poker account at the same time I used the credit card earlier Saturday so they put on fraud alert and closed account)
Sunday 7/20 12pm - Cruising around California and get talked into checking out Tijuana, even though I didn't have a passport. Ask some border patrol and they say they will give you problems but let you back in. ST and I say what the hell
Sunday 7/20 2pm - I can't get out of Tijuana fast enough, a very INTERESTING experience being from the background I am from and seeing the poverty level there. Could have had ANY prescription drug I wanted and got hassled by EVERY store owner (You want to come and see my store?) and the patented "2 beers for $1" and when you walk by it goes to "3 beers for $1"
Sunday 7/20 2:15pm - I am having a MAJOR panic attack as Satan's Twin is about to put a mexican local into the pacific ocean. The line to enter the US was about 1.5 miles long and would have taken hours to get through, in 95 degree heat. A man comes up to us and says "$10 gets you to front of line and taxi" so ST looks at me like I had a clue what was going on and he says to the guy "Sure". ST asks where the taxi is as we are walking up the line. Guy says to us "Go there" and it was under a rail (essentially cutting in line). ST grabs mexican local and says "Give me back my money you scam artist" and I am sitting there with my hands together praying to god that ST doesn't smoke this dude....ST takes 20 pesos from the guy, the guy goes and tells border rent a cops (Not real border patrol people as they weren't in official get up) that we cut in line. Rent a border patrol comes up to us AFTER we are through the turn style and gives us a lecture. My eyes are fixuated at the guys shoes as ST talks through it. "Just don't do it again". I am SMILING from ear to ear, NO MEXICAN JAIL FOR ME
Sunday 2:45pm - Set foot in US again, HOME SWEET HOME. ST still fuming but happy
Sunday 3:15pm - Go to gas station to get gas and low and behold friggin Mike Smith buying something "Why the hell aren't you riding". Smith says how he got nosed, filly tried real hard" Takes picture with yours truly, and then we chat about him coming to Arl Million. "If I show up, I am LIVE"
Sunday Superwoman pm - Get to see Lethal Heat dominate, what a good filly in California
Sunday Lava Man pm - Was great to see Lava Man live, was stupid not to use Monzante as I only used Spring House and was alive to major money
Monday 10am - Rolling to Phx to see Cubs, '24' sees me in the lobby as he was at the hotel bar already turning it on, as I tried to sneak in (was suppose to surprise them at the game)
Monday 6pm - Get to Chase Field, nice field.
Monday 10pm - Need place to drink sorrows away because of how Cubs play. Majerle's looks good. Thunder Dan Majerle owns the place. Scav tells Dan that "You were the greatest NBA Jam player ever on Sega Genesis". Ole boy was behind the bar throwing drinks around and chating up every broad possible, was a cool ass dude
Tuesday 2am - Scav moonwalking outside of Majerle's as Phoenix has guys on bikes that will take you around, they were chilling there becuase it was the only place open, and one of them started pumping some Mike Jackson
Tuesday 2:20am - Finally pass out
Tuesday 9am - Hit up pool at Wyndam, oh wait, there pool is under renovation so we have to go to hyatt next door, oh wait, the sun doesn't show up there until f'n noon. Sit at pool for 3 hours, with no f'n sun.
Tuesday 1pm - Little latino kid who was yelling Spiderman and talking to my friend that was speaking spanish to him points at me and says "Tomato" meaning I am getting burnt, was very very funny
Tuesday 4:30pm - Check out Cooperstown (Alice Cooper's place). Has a boatload of awesome music stuff like guitars from all sorts of band, a Jethro Tull vest, gold records. They have a 2 FOOT hot dog there, looked unbelievably serious and I almost had the balls to try it, if I would have seen it before I ordered I would have
Tuesday 6pm - Walk into Chase Field and notice Arcade, interest peaked because of "Deal or No Deal" arcade game. See Air hockey, pop a shot (football/basketball) and radar gun. Hit 70 on radar gun without warming up, arm SORE as hell, STILL. Air hockey round robin gets HEATED as puck flying everywhere, no swearing YET though. Tourney set for following day
Tuesday 10pm - Need somewhere to continue drinking to get rid of pain after watching the Cubs play. BLAH, but MAJERLE's open.
Tuesday 2:15pm - Finally pass out after chill session
Wednesday 10am - "24" goes to Starbucks within hotel and gets three coffees and 5 crossiants, like $40 or something, but they won't take his $100 bill saying they can't break it, after they had a line out door from 7am to 10am. "24" goes nuts, starting to hate Downtown Phx
Wednesday 11am - Girls we are with blaze up phones because the F'n HYATT drained their pool, very pissed. Then we find out that the place we were staying, The Wyndam, wasn't renovating their pool, go and chill there until 4ish.
Wednesday 4:30pm - An assault on Chase Field concession stands as they had a BRAT FOOTLONG that had to be tried, was damn good. Chase Field has EVERYTHING possible. INCLUDING a FATBURGER in the stadium. Couldn't have asked for more options.
Wednesday 5pm - 1st annual Over 27 Round Robin Chase Field Arcade Tourney starts. Scav wins Radar Gun and Air Hockey convincingly. Pop a shot basketball goes down to last 5 seconds as Scav wins by 2 shots, and pop a shot footbal goes down to last four throws against "Lights On" for scav to secure bonus points. I become undisputed champion
Wednesday 6pm - Game starts. NEED to get a f'n win
Wednesday 10pm - Ahhhh, didn't go all the way to AZ to see a sweep. AZ Fans try to talk ****, but they have only had baseball for 10 years.
Wednesday 10:15pm - Majerle's gets nuts as he opens up his other bar which is connected to his staple, can't remember what it was called but the woman were amazing.
Thursday 2am - Verbal altercations with homeless guy that wouldn't leave us alone
Thursday 8am - Onward to Vegas
Thursday Noon - Get to Ballys Sportsbook to see KNS's race, she ran good given retarded pace scenario
Thursday 2pm - Friends finally get there, get food and start party
Thursday 8pm - Blackjack NOT going well at all, 14-14-15-16-13-14-11(Double down and get a f'n 3)
Friday 2am - call it night, want to get to pool tomorrow
Friday 11am - Get to Flamingo pool, massive amounts of people. Getting pumped for Rain Shower's race
Friday 1pm - I am going ape **** in the Flamingo Sportsbook during the Rain Shower race, she runs her rear end off, while I was jumping up and down and yelling "Come on Douglas, come on RAIN" with full program action in right hand. Some jerkoff goes "Why don't you yell louder", I take quick peak to see who it was, go back to watching race. After she gets up for the win, I turn around and go "Why don't you go fucl< yourself, I am involved in that horse" Sportsbook manager goes "Your out of her", I say "Let me cash my tickets".
Friday 1:30pm - Go back to pool and tell friends story and give them cash they won, go back to sportsbook to talk to manager
Friday 2pm - See Fading Light run a great 3rd, while talking to new friends for me and possible DT, Kelly and Rhonda (I know Rhonda is correct, I can't remember if it was Kelly or Fred or Roger) Say Hi IF YOU ARE READING THIS
Friday 4pm - leave pool as sun going away, all jacked up hammered from drinking Purple Rains (A Long island ice tea minus coke plus a shot of shambur(?))
Friday 8pm - get dinner, hit tables, get smoked, talk to hookers and let them get hopes up
Saturday 10am - RAINING in Vegas, watch Cubs game and play some Saratoga. Unbridled Heart probably cost me about 5k as I had a large P4, 1x1x1x4. Just how the trip was going.
Saturday 6pm - FIGHT NIGHT, Cotto vs Margarito. Was an amazing atmosphere as I didn't know much about Mexicans hating Puerto Rican's and vice versa. I got to sit next to Cotto's neighbors, they travelled from Puerto Rico, and learned some Spanish. Pooricay!!!!
Saturday 8pm - Puerto Rican friends are not happy. Cotto just gets manhandled by Margarito. Lights On, who is a big boxing fan, gets program, which was ALL in spanish. He knows zero spanish.
Saturday 8:30pm - Waiting for friends, I spot Zab Jutta(?), MIKE TYSON, and Joakim Noah. You could see all three of these bozo's from miles away, even Tyson, who I had about 3 inches on heightwise.
Saturday 9pm - Hit up Nathan's hot dogs, don't have one here and has become annual staple on Vegas trips. no way I could eat more then 5
Sunday 8:45am - At pool for DAY, Bake baby bake.
Sunday 11am - See 26 year old guy go up to girl that couldn't have been older then 15 and try to hit on her, and see her mother come over and tell the guy that they were 15. WAS HILARIOUS.
I can't say I blamed the guy because the chick looked like she was 21 and was pretty unbelievably smokin
Sunday 11pm - Scav, 24 and Big Chris are playing blackjack. Guy comes and sits down to play at quarter table with only $100. Comes in just as cut card about to come out. I go and take a piss and dealer was cool with us, only deals one hand, stupid guy that just sat down goes to me "WHY you play that hand" and i look at 2 friends like "What is this guy getting at", asking me why I started to play a hand, at a table I have been at for 2 hours. Guy says " I am from France" and I say "So I am from Chicago", the Frenchy then goes "I CHALLENGE YOU" and gets a little pointed with words, starts taunting and getting real verbal. 24 sitting next to me and is like "WTF are you talking about Frenchy" Frenchman DOUBLES on hard 14, all three of us pull money back and say we aren't playing, Frenchy also pulls back so at standstill. Pit boss comes over and starts talking **** to Lights On, who was sitting at the table, as Pitt boss thinks he was causing the issues.
French man gets up and takes what looks like a lunge(?) at me, 24 gets up and says "Its about to go down". French tries to walk behind us and I go "I wouldn't touch any of us guy, beat it"
Monday 10am. leave Vegas
Monday 4pm - get home, thank f'n god