Had a blast. Wish I could have stayed 1 more night with them Canuks
We missed everyone that would have come, but we made due in our squad of 4.
In all seriousness I am glad we all got along so well like old high school buddies and tore up the town. Can't wait until next time.
My camera got NY acid raid inside the lens and was put out of commission (thankfully still warrantied) so Archmage will have to post his photos.
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Friday night we basically walked around in awe staring up at the skyline like a bunch of newbs, going from club to club, spot to spot and being turned away on occasion because we weren't wearing Versace 3 pieces with a pimp cane. Oh that's right ... "This is a GENTLEMEN'S club" oh, excuse me while I put on my King Henry III robes while the women wear next to nothing ...
Then we hit Times Square and we instantly knew we were in la la land. "THIS IS NEW YORK CITY" As Poo holds out his hands to a cast of thousands of aliens squiggling across some bazaar neon landscape. Man, street magic was in the air - you had hustlers, vendors of all shapes and sizes competing for your wallet, people of every race, creed and nationality peacefully walking around laughing and smiling ... amazing. and the LIGHTS. A damn near second sun.
As a side, Cab drivers honk at EVERYTHING. A cab sees a pigeon ... <HONK> a cab driver sees a floating dust particle ... <HONK> and it catches on, as other people start honking all over the place too.
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Then there was the sushi bar. OMFG. No seriously ... we all sit down and look at some hand-typed menu with all these choices that we had no idea what was what. So we order some beer and saki (AKA microwaved ripple wine) ... and order the sushi deluxe, hoped for the best, and agree we may be in over our heads. Well, that's because we were in over our heads. Much to our terror, these wooden chop boards were placed before our stunned souls and started remembering why I am 31 and have never tried raw fish.
So there we are, looking at a plate of Moby Dick. Pink fish guts surrounded by rice in a nice leather chap that we're not even sure if we eat yet. In a bold move, Archmage takes a bite and we all stare at him as he were the first man to ever eat an oyster. I can't remember the adjective he used to describe it, but we were quickly getting wanderlust and began planning our escape route to quick pay and leave. Badash got some mega-wrap thingys with miscellaneous guts to dip in lucifer's soy sauce. I was the lucky one who got Gene Simmon's tongue, Poo got some rare leviathan guts from the Mariana's trench, and Archmage made the best of it and tried to enjoy it. The bill was like 85 bucks, and we all wanted out.
yesterday.
So we went to McDonalds and got cheeseburders and chicken nuggets. We are all tools.
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We met an interesting British woman bartender that thought we all 4 met in the slammer (tee hee), She tried to send us to a secret underground hideout run by the former KGB. "You can't see it really, just look for the red light by the door." ummmm, think we'll pass. So we hung out with her for a while because she was very cool and kept feeding Poo buffalo piss (tequila and tobasco) and we all buy rounds for all the people at the bar. We stumble back to the hotel and that's all she wrote.
Saturday we did the sight seeing, the bus tours (very interesting) and NYC pizza and deli, get caught in the middle of hurricane Ivan, laugh as the entire Etheopian soccer team tried to sell us fake rolexes, jewelry, UMBERA UMBERA UMBERA-ELLAS. and since we got wtf pwned by the rain, I guess it's NYC 1 PHX 0.
Saturday night we hit up the Ha! comedy club, and it was cool. they were pretty damn funny. The last guy who was the main was freaking hilarious. Can't remember his name though. Got raped at Applebee's for 87 bucks for an appetizer and a few beers, walked around some more and went back to the hotel. We talked and laughed till 3am and watched Platoon for a comforting and happy night's sleep.
As I type this now, Badash, Archmage and Poo are tearing it up still in NYC and I would just like to thank them for a GREAT time. I can't wait until next year when hopefully we can get more people to come and pick a spot that may be a little less spendy
Have a safe trip home dudes. LATER!
Don't try to call. It is like a buck/minute since I'm roaming outside Canada and won't answer. Thanks and see you all Monday night.
Açieeed! style by 
