Greatest Trip Ever (Remix)

Well ... I've made it through the greatest trip ever, and I've lived to tell about it.  All in all, it was a good trip.  I think we used enough Bullfrog to make the French mad, and the black speedo was a fantastic success.  I think the remix should just be a list of thoughts ... since that's far easier for me.

1. Topless women on the beach:  Some of these topless women are hot ... and I mean really really hot women ... and some are not, however it's not really that big of a deal.  I've seen it before and I'll see it again.  Thank you for pointing out every girl sunbathing without a top on.
2. Resort Club Music:  I understand that I'm in another country, and I understand said country might have their own type of music that they listen to.  However, when the only person that likes all of the music being played is the DJ ... someone needs to be fired.  I could have run a better club using a tape player.
3. Champions League Final:  I did have a lot of fun watching the ManU v Barca Final, in another country.  It also helped that we could have cared less who won the game, so no yelling at the TV was involved.
4. Asshole Americans:  At a resort like this, it's very easy to see why people throughout the world think that Americans are assholes ... we are.  I mean, not all of us are, but the vocal assholes are louder and believe they expect things for being American.  I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes.
5. This is more of a story and less of a thought.  So, on the night of the wedding (the reason I'm on this excellent adventure) ... I decide that I'm drinking enough to see if I can get hungover.  I rarely get hungover, and nobody really knows how this happens.  So we start as soon as the wedding is over, champagne, red wine, more red wine, rum and coke, and a select group of people are left over late into the night.  At about 2 or 2:30am, the four of us decide to head to the "open all night" cafe ... where we find we're the only ones in the place.  A botched answer to the question "Do you want champagne?" turned into bottles of champagne being opened and the idea of staying up all night.  Since this is a far better option that actually waking up to take pictures of the sun rising, I say I'm in and turn back into the room to get my camera before sunrise.  At 5am we leave the cafe, take to the pier to get pictures and celebrate the rising of the sun.  By 6am, we're back to the cafe and drinking mimosas ... I mean why not, we've been drinking for 12 hours.  It was this moment that I remember I committed to playing soccer at 10:30am.  I head back to the room, drop off the camera, grab soccer playing clothes, and change out of the wedding clothes and into soccer clothes on the field.  I'm ready to go.  Somehow I didn't throw up and I wasn't hung over.  A fun night ended without a hangover, and there certainly won't be a hangover part 2.
6. French Lesbians:  I can't wait to see how many people find the blog because of those 2 keywords now.  Well, the story goes like this -> I asked my friends to scope out the landscape and see if there was anyone to talk to at the resort.  Since I can't get a girl in Maryland to return a phone call or a text, even after asking if she wanted to go to a concert with me because of an extra ticket ... I thought another country might be my way to go.  My friends did a great job too and found a couple girls that didn't have any guys with them ... great success.  The first night I'm on the island leads us to drunken ping pong, and it just so happens these girls are there also.  I figure that I can't lose anything by trying, and ask them if they need anything to drink since I'm heading to the bar.  The girls aren't very responsive and tell me they don't need anything ... this is right before they start speaking to each other in French.  My high school teacher would be proud that I even understand that it was French.  Well, a little bit of time goes along and the girls end up leaving ... arm in arm, and one with a full on ass grab on the other.  Should I be happy that my friends tried to hook me up with French lesbians?

All in all, the trip was fun and there were a lot of places I could take pictures.  I put together about 525 pictures over the week, but this is before paring them down and figuring out that a lot of them look exactly the same.  Good thing I have a ton of pictures to remember the greatest trip ever.  I now look forward to heading to the NHL draft at the end of the month ... which is in Minnesota, so obviously can't be anywhere near as fun as this trip just was.

It's been a long October

So, I've noticed that my blog has gone to the wayside once soccer hit full stride.  I know that's not an excuse in any way, shape, or form ... however I'll still used it.  Plus I mentioned in the first post that this thing would probably be used sparingly throughout it's life cycle.

As soccer season winds down (I have 4 more games on my schedule, for now), I have some thoughts to throw out to the masses:

1)  I should end up the season with close, if not more than 250 miles logged in 54 games from August 17th to November 4th.  Not a bad haul for the fall season.

2)  I'm looking forward to hanging out with friends, siting on my couch, starting to read the Bourne Identity (I have Supremacy and Ultimatum too), watching Caps games, and going to Caps games ... probably not all at the same time, but you get the point.

3)  I tend to lose the concept on what children really get from sports.  I'm truly starting to believe that sports teach children some of the best and some of the worst traits that come from society.  I wonder if people, in their jobs, are able to blame missing reports or missed deadlines on others being "terrible" or "the worst _____ ever".  Or if they're able to curse out a boss when they don't get a promotion or something else that they "deserved".  I almost wonder if it was all this way when I was a kid, and I was just too young/naive to notice.

4)  Although a lot of Caps fans are not happy with how the team has started the season, they're 2 points behind the record breaking pace they set last season.  I'd trade a more "team oriented" game for a win here or there any day of the week.  I don't expect a team to win every night, maybe give themselves a chance to win, but there's no need to win every game.

5)  I'm digging the Caps Winter Classic jerseys.  By the way, for all the people that dislike them, please feel free to realize that the Washington Capitals are not here to recreate your youth.  Go find a jersey from the 80's, if you like them so much.  I appreciate the fact that they look close to same, without being the same jerseys.

6)  I'm really looking forward to getting my pair of Face Off Hockey Shoes in the mail.  That will be this year's referee "gift" to myself.  After a long season, it's nice to use some of the money now, while saving the rest for later.

7)  I'd like to get back into marketing the Face Off Hockey Show much more.  New Products, new sponsorships, money coming in, setting up a website to sell draft pictures, and whatever I can really do.  If nothing else, at least this helps with our marketing in the future.  Although some new gear and some money has never hurt anyone.