The innaugeral 2007 blog of pointlesses, and the first weekend update.

Detroited!

I'm going to make this both as complete, and concise as possible. Pics forthcoming of course.

Saturday: Woke up mo-ass early (3am) drove to Lambert, stabbed people in the security line, surrendered about $50 worth of liquids in our carry-on (whoops), and got on the metal tube to detroit. Sat at the back of a DC9, which is where they like to keep the engines. Loud. Not loud enough to drown out screaming baby though. Also, the engine we were by was most definitely not 100% in working order. They didn't re-use the plane for the remainder of the flight (was supposed to go from DTW to Lansing, whatever their airport code is).

Anyway, after riding the turbotrain down to Luggage, met up with Liz and John, who drove us to Toast via awesome ghetto, to meet Chris & Cari, who by some awesomeness, had managed to drive from Gilman, IL to Detroit, and meet us at Toast in whatever-burb within 15 minutes of each other (they beat us, for the record). So props to them. Had the bomb-ass Mushroom omlet from hell, and fore-gone'd(forwent?) the (hack)allagh toast for overhyped cheesy grits.

Went back to Liz & John's place....hung out a lot. Due to waking up at 3, Saturday is really a blur. I think we did a massive beer run that day. And drank. Chris and I took a totally hetero nap together, and awoke to find LaFlamme and Taryn (i suck at spelling) in the living room. Drank a bit, then all headed to Crust for awesome pizza and wine. Then it was off to some-other-burb for Irish drink on and fireplace. MacCallan 12 in huge quantities makes me happy. Then it was back to Liz's I think? I dunno. Blur. I'm sure I forgot some key shit. Drinking games? Boomo!

Sunday: I think we went to some Coney Island, which is oddly enough all-encompased with greekness throughout the greater D. Had gyro plate. I honestly don't recall what else we did. The entire trip mostly consisted of sleeping, eating, and drinking, all in excess. Fabu.

At some point, we all got ready to go out to Big Rock(?) Chophouse for supper. Somehow managed to secure ghetto-fab cheapass limo at 5pm on New Years Eve, which was awesome. Drank more, waited for limo, limo arrived, we went to da Big Rock. Limo died leaving the resturaunt. It was funny. BigRock...rocked. Scallops the size of a 8 year old's fist. Potatos the size of small dog's heads. Filets with the tenderness of a Michael Bolton song. Martinis stronger than Donald Trump's hairspray. Awesome, awesome time. Retrieved ghetto-limo back to Liz's where much more drinking and merriment was had.

Monday: Uh........ Blur. Woke up, ate? Went to Dave & Busters for shuffleboard and game goodness. Ellen has a new affinity for the guns. Went to BW3 for the Michigan game, which sucked almost as bad as the service....zing! Did have the best bloody mary of my life, however. Goddamn. Wound up getting a hotel due to Chris' cat-related death. Played much drinking games until late. Went on a vending machine adventure.

Tuesday: Uhh..... Went back to Liz's I guess... oh, changed Cari's mom's car's tire, took it to belle tire for tire patching love. Ate lunch...somewhere? Made the treck out to Dearborne to see robots build trucks, but missed the last tour by like 2 hours. Missed the Ford museum by about 45 minutes. Perused gift shop for about a half hour. Bought sign for garage. Left, went in search of Belgian Pub for Feather Bowling, which no one could exactly explain to us. Found joint, obtained beer and mussels and "special wooden balls". Proceeded to feather-bowl our asses off and rock the love. So fun. Basically shuffleboard/bocce ball, but with more dirt and screaming and beer. Went to some-other-burg for A way-more-expensive-than-it-shoulda-been supper, but was awesome. Drank? Maybe. I dunno. Said goodbyes to the Baslers, as they were doing the hotel thing again due to catness. Slept (kinda). Mostly flopped around bed due to having like 5 cokes at Cosi.

Wednesday: Got to airport wayyyy to early, got through security in like 2 minutes, ate, hung out, got flight on which we were about the only civilians (though I kinda fit in with my haircut). Sat at the back again, damn NWA. Got into town, had awkward moment where shuttle driver was waiting for me to tip him, but I had no cash, drove to Fairview, got lunch, picked up dog, went home, ate, slept for 6 hours, watched Casino, went back to sleep.


Whew!!!!

Anyway, awesome fun trip. Spent way too much money, ate WAAAAY too much, apparently drank too much too, but it was worth it for the fun and company of good friends. I'm missing tons of good details I'm sure, but I need to hurry up and end this so I can sit on my duff since I have a 2 day work week, and I don't even remember what my job here is since I've been here so little the past 4 weeks.

Oh, Ellen's got her 2nd round interview today for her new job (same place, just different department with a shitload more responsibility). Her boss is already making arrangements for her replacement, so she's pretty much got it bagged, and I think she's just working out her raise today. So w00t there.