Saratoga

[Calzone Lord]

We missed the Ice Cream Eating contest on Wed. literally by minutes.

Food:

Mexican Connection: Freaking massive portions and very good mexican food. The margaritas were good -- but they're a little better tasting at the place we favor in Erie... and drinking a pitcher seems to get me much more smashed at the local one. One of the few times in my life I ever went to a decent place when I was hungry, got something I liked a lot, and couldn't finish it.

Nove's (formerly Sergio's) : The GPS in my girlfriends car (Gartmin -- but I always called it Cartman) took us to a trailor park. I insisted on wanting to get out and ask people in the trailor park for directions -- turns out -- the place was on the other end of 9N and for some reasons, the GPS is massively wrong.

We finally find the place, and it's located next to another trailor park.

Other than that, I loved the place. Thought the food was very good, the prices very reasonable, the atmosphere nice. The table next to us towards the end was so loud -- you could hear every word of about 3 seperate conversations going on. My girlfriend goes "I feel like I'm in a mob movie right now"


Cantina : Mexican place on broadway. The greater was smoking hot. The waitress was also quite hot. I wasn't feeling the direction the place was going from the start. The Nachos were like whole grain wheat. The salsa wasn't spicy at all -- but my gf loved it. The meal was good -- but relatively overpriced.

Boca Bistro: I came across Blackthroatedwind on the street before the races on Thursday -- and he gave me this one. I only stayed for the first 4 races today -- and was planning on hitting this place up. We went in, but they were doing happy hour and the menu just had appetizers on it. The menu looked foreign to me.

I also stumbled into a few other DT'ers like Byk, Rudeboy, Sheets, and Golfer.

Some of the places I got wasted at included The Horse Shoe, and some random bars off of Broadway. One of the dive type ones had $5 cans of Fosters that were about 28ozs. After getting stumbling drunk, my sober gf would drive me to our hotel (A Best Western right by the Albany airport -- everything else was pretty much booked everywhere else. $148 a night after taxes for a Best Western in Albany is nuts)

I cost myself all action for the trip. Everytime I was driven back to the hotel -- my drunk ass collapsed face first into bed and passed out.

The most disturbing moment of the trip came as we were leaving Saratoga -- my gf was driving on Broadway and suddenly started freaking out and yelling "Oh My Gawd!!! Ahhhh!!!!!" -- I thought maybe she forgot something at the hotel... no, she saw "Countess from Real Housewives of New York walking with her boyfriend Jauques" ... followed by " I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! I want to roll the window down and shout C-Unt and say Fucl< you too Jauques!" I looked over, never expecting to be the voice of reason, and said "Please, don't!"

I had absolutely no idea who she was talking about -- but it was very weird.

All in all, good brief getaway.