Hi Texas
But first, link of the day
Bush or Chimp
Hours of entertainment in that.
So, lets see. I went to Texas this past summer and I had a good bit of fun. In some way I kind of miss it actually. I really enjoyed doing something every day rather then sitting around in my house waiting for the semester to start again. For some reason, my little apartment breads laziness into me. I have a hard time walking two blocks just to go rent a movie, let alone going jogging every day like I should be. I also sleep more here. I like sleep because it's free. But, I don't think 10-12 hours is healthy. Maybe I should set an alarm. At Craig's I was sleeping 6-7 hours.
Craig has this Ex-girlfriend, and they are still room mates after breaking up three months ago. They are still friends though. For the purposes of my discussions she was with us most all the time.
Now, some of these details are a bit sketchy. But here goes. I landed in TX on the 9th and Craig picked me up and he brought me to Fort Sam Houston where he checked out on leave. We got some Bill Miller. I love me some Bill Miller. I think we went to the pool later that night. I can't remember what we did in the evening. There's no telling.
The next day we went Paintballing. I'm not a sprinter, something which this game requires a lot of. I was pretty much dead after the first run. I did pretty good, considering, in the beginning. Then I started to get owned pretty hard when I could barely move due to the lactic acid build up in my legs which would haunt me for the next few days. I found this game on the internet.
I think it was later that night we went to this guy and his wife's house for some steak on the grill. It was pretty good steak. Without telling a long story, basically, both the woman got naked and had sex in the pool chairs. Nope, not even kidding here. I rank this in my top three most uncomfortable situations ever. I can't think of the other two, honestly. Not so much as having seen it, but, well, it just got weird. The husband jumped up in the action. Then Craig's roommate (I'm leaving her anonymous intentional) is waving me in like I'm some kind of tag team wrestler. I kissed her and I didn't do anything other then that.
I told someone it's like a Harley Davidson. Everyone wants a chopper, but not everyone wants to be in the garage for three hours twice a week just to ride your machine once a week. One of those situations where reality doesn't meet with fantasy. They seemed happy enough, I suppose.
I think it was that next day we went to Schlitterbahn. The best ride by far was this hot tub pool things which was about 100 degrees. You need to be sitting down before you read this next part. It had a bar with underwater stools. How freaking cool is that? Take a swim, paddle around a bit, come back for a Margarita. Let craig's roommate have a temper tantrum over some waitress and do it all over again. Oh, and I got pretty sun burnt on my right shoulder. Not really bad, just red and it made me peal.
At some point we went and saw that Arthur movie and I, Robot which I have already commented on.
We went to Benihauna's. Which is a Japanese Steak place, I just love it. Had some Sushi, Sake, a steak of course, and a few other nick necks. The food is amazing, though a bit pricey. I've been three times now. Once on the super bowl of 01-02 season.
We also went to a Minor league baseball game. Which was both fun and boring at the same time. That same guy and his wife was there. No, I wasn't uncomfortable. I take things in stride like that.
One day we went MTN biking along the mission trail. This was the first activity without Craig's girlfriend. This was a lot of fun and would have been tons more fun had my legs not still been aching, and not to mention how hot it was. We then went downtown with it's flocks of tourists. That wasn't so much fun.
One of the last things we did was go to Austin. We ate at a New Orleans stile place at first. We bought 1lb of Crawdad; when they bring them they dump them on the table in a steel galvinized pale. Then you go hog wild. It's kind of fun actually. After that we walked around trying to find UT Austin which we couldn't find. We then tried and find some other cool club but made the mistake of walking by Coyote Ugly. Well, that was about five I'd guess. We were there until midnight or so. Yeah, I got toasty. Something along the lines 3 or 4 tequila shots (one of which was a body shot, that I didn't buy). A beer or four. About four mixed drinks then I drank two more of Craig's roommates on the sly because she wasn't.
Well, later on the evening, Craig was getting a spanking
and the nice waitress took out his cell phone and wallet and handed them to me. Craig's room mate asked for the cell phone, which I didn't think anything of at the time, though I should have, considering some background which I haven't filled you in on. Well, the cell phone come up missing and Craig got unerstandably upset. She got sort of irate and when she left the bouncers wouldn't ler her back in. This then spiraled downwards into a confrontation with two Mexicans, this girl, and Craig and I with the police (about 6) showing up. Things were about one quarter of one inch away from going south very fast before the cops showed up so I'm kind of happy they did. No one got arrested or ticketed.
Did I mention we took all her credit cards and keys so she couldn't drive or do stupid stuff while drunk? We did. As we were on the street she ran up the street and jumped in a cab and took it all the way back to San Antonio. Nice little fair there. Well, Craig and I opted to wait around in Austin for a few more hours to sober up enough to drive which I did since Craig was still a bit toasty. All I have to say about that is: there's a lot of cops on 6th street. Did you know Texas is a big state? Did you also know that in Texas going south doesn't mean you are actually going south? Did you know that you can drive for many hours and not have any idea where you are? I learned these things that night.
Well, my last day or two passed uneventfully and rather calmly. Best fun I've had all year long, I have to say. Did I say Craig wouldn't let me pay for anything? Nope, he didn't.

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