Just got back from a trip to California and then to Vegas, 3 weeks long and what a great experience.
The trip began with quite a few slip ups, I was half way through the plane journey when I decided take my laptop out of my bag and write my first blog entry for the trip but to my surprise my laptop was not in my bag, oh yeah my stupid, forgetful, over used, warned out brain decided to leave my 2month old Mac in the airport at security, well played fish, well played. (My brother managed to get it from lost property, few!) But it was not a good start given I was in a another country with out internet, I felt screwed. A few other things went wrong in the first few hours of our trip but I won't go into the details too much, lets just say I got bad beaten for $700 the minute I got of the plane with the car I had pre paid for just because I was under 25 :(.
So anyways first stop San Fran, nice town didn't get to do too much because of the laptop situation and not really knowing where to go or what to do, I did however arrange to meet up with HUsng pro 'Mersenneary,' I was pretty nervous meeting Mers for the fact that I wanted to make a good impression after the horrible one I left him when I first got speaking to him. Anyways the night consisted of a very nice meal (thanks again buddy) and ALOT of drinks after, to say I was wasted would be a good way to describe it. I am real grateful for the effort Mers and his Girlfriend Meredith put in and was a great night.
The trip began with quite a few slip ups, I was half way through the plane journey when I decided take my laptop out of my bag and write my first blog entry for the trip but to my surprise my laptop was not in my bag, oh yeah my stupid, forgetful, over used, warned out brain decided to leave my 2month old Mac in the airport at security, well played fish, well played. (My brother managed to get it from lost property, few!) But it was not a good start given I was in a another country with out internet, I felt screwed. A few other things went wrong in the first few hours of our trip but I won't go into the details too much, lets just say I got bad beaten for $700 the minute I got of the plane with the car I had pre paid for just because I was under 25 :(.
So anyways first stop San Fran, nice town didn't get to do too much because of the laptop situation and not really knowing where to go or what to do, I did however arrange to meet up with HUsng pro 'Mersenneary,' I was pretty nervous meeting Mers for the fact that I wanted to make a good impression after the horrible one I left him when I first got speaking to him. Anyways the night consisted of a very nice meal (thanks again buddy) and ALOT of drinks after, to say I was wasted would be a good way to describe it. I am real grateful for the effort Mers and his Girlfriend Meredith put in and was a great night.
I spent a quick night in Nappa valley which was beautiful and then headed down to San Luis where I stayed in a nice hotel and spa and treated ourselves to some massages to de-stress a little. Whilst in San Luis I hit up a local bar and met some really nice people.
Next destination was LA baby and let the fun times begin, I really enjoyed LA, the weather wasn't as great as I expected but none the less I still managed to get sun burnt. I hooked up with a couple of friends I had met the previous year on my stay with oopa11 'Johnny and Matt' thank you for all your help guys and the Dub club will definitely get hit up if I go again ;).
Next I went back to LA to go to Universal Studios the tour was really amazing and The Simpsons ride is so good. After spilling tomato sauce ALL over me I headed to a Dodgers game which was a little boring after the initial excitement wore off but really good experience. The next day I had a quick hair cut in the a really cool barber shop in LA which is actually a graffiti shop for ConArt spray paint which also has a barber shop inside it too, the barber was really cool and just wanted to shout him out on here, so if you go its on fairfax avenue and ask for 'Jayar'. I then headed to Huntington beach where I previously stayed with heads up pro 'Oopa11.' Gutting he was not in town but still took the opportunity to meet his house mate and have lunch. Whilst in Huntington I rented a boat which only went 5mph but was a fun experience just chilling out drinking beers and eating Pizza, this to me was actually one of my favorite memories of the trip as it not only was the most stress free situation you can imagine.
I headed to Vegas the next day and str8 away got ready and went out to XS on Friday night, pretty sick night, miss that club I think it could possibly be the best night club I have ever been to. The weekend consisted of pool parties and pretty much memory loss and brain cell damage. After recovering from the weekend I realized I only had a couple of days left, on one I played a deepstack event at the Venetian which I didn't cash in but really enjoyed the game and on the last day I went to the grand canyon by plane (omg best thing I have seen with my eyes) and also went to see a show 'Jersey Boys' which was a very good show I highly recommend it.
So am back in London now, back to the grind although my first week back consisted of a -8k week. I am actually really happy with how I have played in the few sessions I have played I just ran pretty bad in $500 games I can't really complain about that and I entered the 1million guarantee 6 times which comes to nearly 4k so makes sense lol.
