Labor Day Mayhem

Well things have been pretty hectic. The weekend started out on a great note, I went to play poker at my friend Chris's house. They had a $20 buy-in, which was the most I think I have ever played for, so I was a little nervous about that and that one of their friends seemed to have a decent history of playing poker in the casinos and knows lots of the rules. But in the end all I had all the chips, and their money! Best first poker win ever! Then Saturday morning Dan helped me with a big load that was our bed, dresser, and half of our boxes. He had to take off around eleven for LA, but then our back-up helpers stopped by, Becky and Nate, from work, and they were crazy movers. They were the kick in the butt we needed to get things done. At one point Nate just took an empty box, and pushed what ever papers we had on the desk in, Bam! Desk is packed. So we made two trips down to the new place with boxes will about 3pm, then I was starving as I had only eaten a small breakfast. When you are that hungry only greasy food will do the job so I got a Carl's Jr. $6 Bacon-Western Burger, with criss-cut fries..drool...

Anyway after eating we rested for a while, and then Missy came up for Sunday's Slosh ball. Sunday morning we walked to Cajun Kitchen from our new place for breakfast, so cool that we can just walk there, it was only like 3 or 4 blocks. Then we got a late start to slosh ball but late is on time in their world. It was insane, about 120+ people, we broke into 4 teams, and the each team played 2 innings, 5 outs 7 run limit. There is a slip-n-slid from first to second ending in a waiting pool, at second is where you have to finish a beer, and then another slip-n-slide to third. Lots of fun since it was about 98 degrees out! We won the first game, and then the next two teams played. By the time for the championship we played about 1 inning and people were to lost to figure out what was going on, so we ending that and went on to dizzy sticks. This is a relay were you spin around a bat 10 times, do the slip-n-slide to the keg, drink a beer, back via slip-n-slide, and tag the next person. This is the best sport around to watch! When I went I could not even stand after the bat part, I fell down and pretty much crawled over the slip-n-slid. Then when they handed me the beer, I fell over, saving the beer, and then drank it and made it back. After all 6 kegs were out we went back to Dan's to sober up, we ended up watching TV for the rest of the night, as I think we just got to much sun!

Monday - Ran some errand to get things for the new place, like trash cans! Then we went back over to Dan's to vacuum and clean up a bit. While we were their Nick called about a BBQ at Matt's house, so since we have no food, that sounded like a good plan. We Cleaned, then headed over to Matt's for some tasty tri-tip, Guacamole, chicken, and veggies. So good! Anyways by now its 9pm, and We got to head home as we still needed to pack for Hawaii, and we leave Tuesday night to drive to LA, and our flight leaves on Wed, morning.. Last night we got most of our packing done. I was sad to find out one of the new snorkel masks I bought for Hawaii broke in the move :( But I am going to borrow one from a friend.

That's about it, since I have no TV or Internet at home, and am off for Hawaii, I will post something around Sept 16th! When I am back at work :)