August Long Weekend

I haven't made a post in a while but Pats been keeping everyone updated with his posts, although he was not able to cover everything, since he did not partake in some activities. I understand that even though I think Pat and myself do a good job in adequately describing a nights activities nothing can replace a good picture so i'll post some that i've taken over the last couple weeks.

Ryan on the left there above captured in a moment of glory



None of these pics have anything to do with this post since the party took place a few weeks ago so i'll get on with it.

Friday, August 4th

Cast:

Pannich
Jessie

I'm off work at 3 and I give a shout out to the regulars to see what is going on. It seems that some people decided to take off for the long weekend to the lake or to B.C or whatnot so we'd have to make due with the remaining crew left behind. The night starts out pretty drab with no plans in sight. I get a call from Danny, it appears Dave and himself are also looking for something to do but we didn't have plans on heading to a bar tonight. Pannich picks me up and we get Jessie and head to Moxies for a bite to eat. I'm in the mood for something different and decide on a roasted veggie sandwich, not too bad i might add. In the middle of our meal we get a call from Marco. It appears that he is headed to a party, one of his buddies from high school was throwing it. At this point we aren't sure if we want to join in, we don't know the host plus we don't want to show up it there are just a bunch of dudes hanging around.

Fortress of Solitude (aka. Jessies Basement)

Since we didn't have anything better to do we decide to head to that party and check it out. If it sucked then we would leave. Jessie wanted to be dropped off at home so he could pick up his car and make a getaway by himself should he find himself knee deep in dudes at the party. While we are there i decide to have a couple beers to get primed in case I feel like sticking around at the party.

We were supposed to meet Marco at Jox parking lot so we could follow him to the house. Instead Marco decides not to wait for us and heads there before we leave jessies house. As a result he gives us an address and we spend the next 20 minutes driving around Castle Downs looking for this place. Turns out it was like a 5 minute drive from Jessies house.

Party

People i know or met personally

Matt
Marco
Steve
Liz
Naz
Jen
Brittney

Inside i'm pleasently surprised at the status of the party and immediately get a beer from Marco, it seems i would be staying a lot longer then initially planned. Before we left Jessies house he made sure to bring the beer bong that Marco left behind at his house after the kegger. It appears that the beer bong would make one more appearance before the summer was up. Upon informing Marco and Matt that the beer bong indeed was in attendance they wanted to hit it up. We grabbed about 5 beers and took the beer bong to the backyard. Marco and Matt would hit the dual spout monstrosity simultaneously. Steve would do one himslef and even Marco's friends Liz and Brittney would also hit the bong up.

We had been there about 10 minutes and Jessie and Pannich would leave. I decide that i want to stay and hang out and drink some more, and hopefully in the process meet some cool people.

We all head back in the house and head to the basement to where the majority of the partygoers were situated. I was introduced by Marco to some of his buddies, most of them went to my highschool but i was 3 years their senior. Marco was running low on beer so i switched briefly to crown and ginger.

Jen challanged Brittney to a game of foosball, which would turn into an epic 13 or so games with a revolving door of people that became their teammates. Dispite her minitaure stature Jen would prove to be quite masterful on the table. The first 4 games or so went to Jen as she played Brittney solo. The war of words between the two soon turned into a war of countries with Jen representing Portugal and Brittney representing the Ukraine. Soccer related insults were shouted back and forth by the two girls as well as the growing crowd watching their mini battle. Myself, I sided with Jen and the Portugese faction yelling obsenities and insults at the Ukrainians and berating them about thier performance at the world cup. After the domination by Jen I decided she didn't need my support and switched sides to the Ukraine and proceeded to bash Portugal and Christiano Ronaldo.

It didn't seem like it was that late but when i first got there the party patrons numbered about 40, not long later it was about halved. During some random channel flipping someone stumbled on some porn on tv. It was one of those late night showcase softcore porn shows. Matt claimed that the chick in the show was Billie from Days of Our Lives and I agreed. Liz could not believe that Billie would do a porn flick so Matt went on the internet to prove it was her. Turns out Billie did some porn in the early 90's, looked pretty good i might add.

Around this time about 5 pizzas were brought down, I'm not sure where the pizza was from but it was just the thing everyone needed. By now it seemed like most people had left. Marco and Matt and I decided that now was a good time to take off. Liz and the other girls would also leave taking as many people as she could in her car. Unfortunately there was no room for us. For whatever reason when people are drunk they always think its a good idea to walk to where they are going. This night marco thought it would be a good idea to walk to my place, when he realized how far it was he changed his destination to jessies house, still a long walk.

We stumble a couple blocks to a main street with some beers and a bit of crown in our hand. None of us felt like drinking any more so we just disposed of the half finished alcohol on the side of the street. We decide to call a cab instead of foolishly walking anymore, soon one arrives on the side of the road to take our drunk asses home.

Saturday, August 5

At the time i'm typing this Pat has a post about the same night. I'll let him go into details about the night at the Ironhorse. All i have to say is that it was a pretty crazy night and it was the funnest night i've ever had at the Ironhorse all the times i've been there.

Sunday, August 6

Cast:

Denny
Ashley
Andre
Angela
Suneil
Pannish
Smith

I'm waken at about noon by a phone call from smith. Denny and some others had headed up north to do some camping at long lake for the weekend. Smith was heading out there for the day and was wondering if i wanted to tag along. I wasn't doing anything and i wanted to test out Dennys new seadoo so i thought i'd go with him. Ryan picked me up about half and hour later, we dropped by to get pannich and we were on our way.

The directions denny provided us were scribbled on what looked like a store reciept by ryan. At best they were vague and directionless but nonetheless after an hour and twenty minute drive we were at long lake. Before we entered into the provincial park we stopped by a little store to pick something up to eat. The prepackaged sandwiches didn't look too appealing so i decided to pass. Pannich picked up a pizza sub and offered me half. Not thinking with my head but with my stomach i decided to take half that sub, hopefully i wouldn't have to regret that decision while i was in the middle of the lake. On a side note across the street from the store there was this awesome looking painball place. It looked as if it were newly built and had sniper towers and a whole bunch of cool looking shit. Definitely something we should check out the next time we are out there.

After a bit of driving around we finally find the campsite where denny and andre are staying. When we get there it appears that andre and angela were all packed up. Denny and ashley were already down on the lake so we would have to go find them. By the beach still feeling hungry ryan and pannich decide to get some food. I think it would be bast to eat now so i get some fish and chips. While we sit there and enjoy the great weather and the shit fish and chips, denny in his wet suit come strolling up off the beach.

Pannich, smith and I would change and meet him on the beach. Andre and Co. wouldn't find us until about 45 minutes later. Denny would take each of us for a short ride on his newly purchased seadoo. You don't realize how fast it is until you are actully sitting on the back of this thing and its going 50-60 miles an hour. The acceleration on it makes it feel like someone is pulling on a rope attached to your back, you are constantly holding on for dear life. After everyone got their initial rides in we attached the tube to the back of it and each had our turn on the tube. Later on Pannich and I would ride on the tube together with denny trying to manouver in such a way as to throw us off the tube. Eventually he would succeed, laughing at the sight of me and pannich doing rolls, and skipping on the lake in a mist of white.

After a long day on the lake we retired to dennys campsite for some grub. The hardest part was trying to fit 4 cars and the trailer on to the space of the campsite, some yelling and arguing is all it took. Pannich and i would cut whatever wood we could find and started a fire. Smith wanted to be in the city by 9 since he was working in the morning so after we had some smokies and hamburgers in us we were on our way.

We discovered that the way we took there was idiotic and that we backtracked multipule times, we found a more direct route for the way home and we were in the city by 9. A half an hour later a buddie I haven't seen in a while gave me a call to go out, turns out his brother was in town for the weekend. I was too burned out to even muster an apperance to wherever they were going and ended up passing out before 10.

Monday, August 7th

After a good 12 hour sleep I was feeling quite energized. I had to get up a bit early by weekend standards because I had to show the condo to some prospective renters. Marco called me to let me know that him and some of his crew were heading down to heritage days to sample some food. Pannich would come as well and would join me in showing the condo. The prospective renters was a pair of girls working downtown. One of them had seen the place the week before with her douche boyfriend. I had already made up my mind about not renting to her because I knew that scrote would be there all the time. I didn't know that I was showing it to her again since i spoke to her roommate. I showed them the place again as a mere formality and then Pannich and I were on our way. Marco and the girls would take a park and ride to Hawerlark park since parking was virtually non existent. Pannich and I would drive to the U of A and park in the Ed parking lot. We thought the walk to the park wouldn't be too bad, plus the weather was great and walking would be good for us.

We meet Marco at what was a makeshift bus depot for all the people using the park and ride.

Cast:
Pannich
Marco
Steve
Steves GF
Brittney
Liz
Jen
Chelsey, Chelsea, Chalsey, thats as many spellings that i know not sure which one is correct
girl i can't remember the name of

We meet everyone in the centre of the park. The first thing we do is head to the ticket booth to pick up some tickets. These things always use tickets instead of cash, i always suspect this is the case because its harder for people to track how much they spend if they use tickets so they spend more, but who knows maybe i'm crazy. I end up getting a bunch since i'm feeling mighty hungry. The group of us walk together for a while trying to decide on something to eat. Who would have thought that with all this food around it too me half an hour to decide on my first dish. Eventually i make my way to the portugal tent and sample some portugese sausage (insert homo joke here) it was pretty good. At the tent I run into Danny, Ruben, Phil, Pimp and Joe parotta. The girls kinda wander off as pannich and marco and I chat with them for a bit. While we continue on down the long looping line of countries I was being choosy with what i used my tickets on, making sure to avoid any lines for food. I come across some asian country cant remember which one, and get some deep fried wontons, they were pretty tasty. A couple tents down I spot the girls and they are at a margharita tent near the front of the line so i get one of them to get me one as well.

We do some more walking and hit up the Ireland tent for some stew and potato pancakes, the pancakes were pretty bland but the stew was decent. Not really sure if you can get quality food at these places. The greek tent is the last one that caught my eye and i end up using up all my tickets there to get a spankopita and a souvlaki. The spankopita was awesome and really filling i couldn't even eat my souvlaki until the next day. The last stop would be the france tent. Liz would wait in line for about 20 minutes for a couple of desert crepes, one choloate the other with some sort of jam. It didn't seem like it was worth all the trouble. While i waited with them pannich and marco went to find the niccaragiua tent for some sort of taco or something. They couldn't find the tent so they end up going to some african country tent. Pannich would end up with some sort of chicken drumstick wrapped in some leaf and some rice and marco would get a plate of lettuce with what looked liked pork rinds on it. He offered me the rest of his plate, it looked untouched. Terrible, just terrible tasting. The rinds were bland and the texture was nasty i had to spit it down a sewer.

By then we were all pretty much full and decided to leave. The girls would take the park and ride back to the car and marco would join pannich and i for the long walk back to the university. On the way back we would run into Alex mahary and his crew walking down the big hill. I hoped he would be smart enough to avoid the pork rinds, even though they looked like shit, i was not.