Utah Recap

I really havent felt like blogging lately and i apoligize for the lack of updates. Today is The 28th and ive been back in Texas for over a week now. Utah was a total blast but its amaizing the things i accomplish out here in Texas. Its crazy the entire time i was in Utah i didnt feel like playing poker at all, granted i was on vacation and was spending alot of time catching up with all my old friends, but i still had pleanty of opportunities to play poker when i was there and i really just didnt feel like playing.

Ok im going to recap my whole trip to Utah, i flew in on the 6th and had a whole 2 weeks to just relax and enjoy myself. I met this really cool chick at the San Angelo Airport. She was a Physcology Major at LSU and we chatted it up all the way to Houston. I did number close her but the only bad thing is she isnt from San Angelo and was just visiting Grandparents, bad beat i guess=) So my flight was delayed a few hours in H-Town but i finally got in around 1 AM. It was really really wierd going home. Let me remind you that these past 5 months have been the longest time ive spent away from home and when i got back everything just seemed different. The House was different, TV channels different, Bed was different, for the first time in my life i kinda felt like a guest in my own house, which was deffinetely wierd.

I was super excited to see my dog Zues, this will prolly come off as mean but i was alot more excited to see him then my Mom or Sister. I didnt get a chance to stay there long though, My Mom and I immediatly left the next day to go Finches Hollow. Finches is kinda like a family reunion of sorts for my mom and all her old friends from Vernal. The place we were staying at was up in the Mountains of Utah, which were very very beautiful. After living in Texas for 5 months you really learn to appreaciate the sceanry of Utah, it really is a beautiful state. Although pretty this place was out in the middle of nowhere, which means no cell phones, no TV, No laptop. A pretty big change for somebody who spends 99.99% of their time on the computer.

The real reason i went was to see my Dad. Me and my Dad dont have the best relationship in the world. We are like polar oppisites. That doesnt mean i dont love him though and it was really great to see him again. My Dad is a pretty talented musician and he and all of his old friends play in a Band. He is the bass player and they cover alot of old Rock and Roll songs, which i happen to like alot. So every night the band would play and all the people there would Drink, Dance and really enjoy themselves. Even though i suck at dancing i got out there a few times and all in all the vacation was alot of fun. We stayed for about 4 days which was pleanty, and headed back on a Sunday, which left me about 9 days to hang out and catch up with all my old friends.

My first Night back i Went and hung out with my Best Friend Tom. Ive known him pretty much my whole life and it was great to see him again. We went out with my other friend Troy, We went to this local bar and had a few drinks and shot some pool. The highlight of the night was deffinetely me beating Tom in pool. We played 5 games and i won 3 of him after basically spotting him the first game after playing like a total noob. I made an epic 8 ball bank shot to win game 3 and ever after he tied it at 2-2 i came through and won game 5 convincingly. Let me note that we played pool two more times after that and he completely handed me my ass, so i sure as hell didnt go out on top lol. After pool we had a few Weed cookies that my mom made(yeah i know, best mom ever) and went and saw Pinnapple Express. It was funny, like any Seth Cogan Movie but i thought it was way too long and that they tried a little too hard to be funny, still a good movie though.

The Rest of the week was somewhat uneventfull. I hung out With my good friends John and Jon. We chilled at John's house one night and puffed out(smoked weed) and watched Hardknocks, which is a reality show following the Dallas Cowboys during training camp. I was super stoked to watch that. We watched a little gymnastics after that when i heated debate ensued. It had nothing to do with the Gymnaists and their scores lol. Instead we agrued over who was the best looking Gymnast on the US Squad. I obv had the order down pat...

1. Alicia Sacramone
2. Shaun Johnson
3. Nastia Lukien

But both John and Jon disagreed. Both of them thought Nastia was the hottest and my friend John didnt even think Sacramone was hot....WTF!?!!?!?! I couldnt disagree more but i thought it was pretty funny that we enjoyed checking out the 15 year old gymnasts instead of watching them compete.

On Thursday i went out to my Favorite Resurant and one of the Nicest places to dine in Utah. Its Called "Francks" which is french and named after the chief. I had been there a few times so i knew all the good things to order, but you really cant go wrong with anything there, its that good. I figured since i was ballin it up id order a ballin drink to start the night. 18 year old scotch FTW! lol i dont even like scotch but it was the most expensive liquor on the menu and it wasnt bad for 17 dollars a shot. We ordered a seared Pork Appitiezer which was to die for. When it came time to Order i got the Blueberry Meatloaf and my Mom Ordered Francks Friend Chicken. Although it is a French Resturant one thing i really like about it is that the Dishes arnt too Frenchy(lol is that even a word?). All the stuff on the menu is stuff i like but made with really wierd combinations, like cherrys and onions or A Melon flavored soup. Everything was Fantastic and i even got to meet Franck himself, which i was pretty stoked on. All in all it was a great night and im looking forward to going back when i visit Utah again

Friday night was one of my funnest nights of the vacation. I got to see my good friend Zeke who i hadnt seen in about 18 months. Zeke and me are boys and he went to Iraq about 18 months ago. When he came back i was in Texas and we deffinetley had some catching up to do. So he picks me up in his New 2 door coupe 08 Honda Accord. This car was ballin out of control for a Honda. It was cherry red, very sporting looking, had nice ass leather seats,GPS, Voice command everything, you could literally adjust the volume of the car or the AC by talking to it. So me and him go to the Liquor Store and thats where the biggest decision of the night came. Instead of getting the usual Yaeger or Spiced Rum, i figured i needed to splurge a little and i bought a nice bottle of Cogniac.

So all of this lead up to us going to a Party at this Ericas house. Erica is Tom's girl and a pretty good friend of mine. Right before i left i felt like Erica her friend Brooke and me kinda had a little falling out. It pretty much consisted of me being a little baby about a few things that i dont really want to get into. So i was happy that both of them were there so we could put all that stupid stuff behind us and get back to being good friends, which i would Consider Erica one of my friends. So we ended up getting super super Drunk that night. The congiac was the hit of the party and i had about 7 shots to go with my 4 glasses of Covasiea. We went to a bar down the street but everyone was just super drunk. About 3 broken shot glasses and a few Attempted Car jackings later we somehow made it home. MY friend Zeke took me home and we bumped Devin the Dude in his nice sterio system.

I had a little recovering to do the next few days and stayed at home and watched the Olympics on Friday and Saturday. Michael Phelps is the man and he has inspired me to start swimming again. OK on to Monday the last night of my Vacation and deff on of the funnest!!!

I started the day early in the morning going to a Physic Reading. MY mom had met this lady who was a shamin during the Weekend and she agreed to see me and give me a reading and help me find a way to help my hurting back. It was a crazy experience, She knew all about my childhood and my relationship with both my Mom and My Dad. She knew that i was super close to my Mom's Grandparents and somewhat Distant with my Dad's. She gave me a somewhat meditative excercise to do whenever my back is Hurt. She also linked me too an Animal, the Cheetah. She told me to go out and find a bunch of things that resemble a Cheetah. She read me a little passage about Cheetahs and how they relate to us as humans. It wasnt some horiscope BS either, all the stuff she said about Cheetahs being very impulsive and being fast leaners seemed to relate to me as a person. All in all it was a very cool experience and she recorded the whole thing wihich i deffinatly plan on re-listening to.

After that i Met up with Tom and my good friend Harvey. We went and played some more pool. Im going to leave out the details because it wasnt pretty, but it was really good to see Harvey again and i enjoyed it. After pool Harvey left and we went back to Toms Appartment where Erica and Brooke were there cooking us a lavish dinner. The four of us had a nicely cooked Rib-eye steak, Mashed Potatoes, Corn and Bread, topped off with a big old Glass of MELK(lol). It was delish and a really nice gesture by Erica to cook for us.

After the great meal is the beggining of one of the drunkest nights of my life. We started by taking shots of Spiced Rum left over from the Weekend. Brooke is a girly girl so she eneded up taking the last shots of Flavored Vodka and Tom, Erica and I almost killed a whole bottle by Ourselves. After that we decided to go to a local bar called "Lumpys". We meet up with my friends Zeke and Stephan, and this really cute girl named Sarah. We played a few games of pool, Which me and Sarah won, then lost, then won again. And after that it was the end of old Bretter. We had a shot of Tequila when we first got there. Then i orded Kamakszias, then The girls ordered Yaeger shots for us. Before I knew it i was about to pass out and it was almost 1 AM. Now what i forgot to mention during this whole drinking Spree is that i had a flight to catch at 6:45 AM, which i payed for dearly later on.

So my Friend Brooke drove me Tom and Erica Back to the Apartment. I dont really remember what happened after that and what i do remember isnt suitable for the younger audience reading my blog so i will just leave it at that =) So after "hanging out" for about an hour it was 2 am and i needed to be at the Airport in 3 hours!! I was going to call a cab but Brooke insisted on giving me a ride home. I accepted the ride home even though she had no business driving and we made it back to my place. She dropped me off and made it home safely herself. I went up to my room, staggered around and packed all my stuff up. At this point it was only 2 hours before my Mom was going to take me to the Airport so i just rocked the All nighter. I was drunk when my mom woke up lol. She was nice enough to give me a ride and i somehow survived the rest of the morning. That was the end of my Trip to Utah. It was one of the funnest two week stretchs ive had in awhile and a shout out to all my Great friends who made it special!!!! One.

-Brett