Save A Horse, Ride A Lawboy
Well, last weekend was good times at the Stampede. We departed a tad later than anticipated, and for the second year in a row when Roman and I have hit Stampede, there were car problems. This time, the back window of the car wouldn't close, so we went the whole way there and back with it open. We stopped off at Glenn's in Red Deer, before arriving at Cam's around 11:00 or so. Cam had a pretty cool basement, and an awesome cable package, which included ESPN Classic Canada, the NHL Network, and Fox Sports World. Basically much of the weekend consisted of drinking beer and watching sports highlights (notably including game 7 of the 1997 Oilers-Stars series) and Family Guy episodes. Particularly enjoyable was watching the second Test between the All Blacks and the Lions from Wellington. Great match. It's perhaps a bit too early to tell, but methinks that Dan Carter's performance may prove to be the same sort of coming out party that another All Black had 10 years ago in a certain World Cup Semi-Final.
When we finally got around to hitting the Stampede, we hit the casino for a bit where we observed Roman playing roulette. I did a voiceover for a lacrosse highlight package at the Sportsnet booth, and they let me keep the tape. It was sort of tough syncronising the action on screen with the script they have for you, so there wasn't a lot of emotional expression that went into the call. We were going to meet my friend Clarissa and some of her friends in Nashville North, but the line was just too long already so instead we hit up a different beer garden. There, we proved our cool-ness by discussing whether the smoking bylaw in Edmonton would also apply to beer gardens or not (as I found out on the news after we got back, apparently it does).
After more walking around and a roller coaster ride, we headed to BP's for dinner and a team pitcher. We had initially intended to go out after, but that sort of fizzled. We did meet up with Julia there, though, and she gave us a ride back to Cam's.
The ride home was fairly uneventful, apart from the construction on the bridge by Leduc. All in all a good weekend.
When we finally got around to hitting the Stampede, we hit the casino for a bit where we observed Roman playing roulette. I did a voiceover for a lacrosse highlight package at the Sportsnet booth, and they let me keep the tape. It was sort of tough syncronising the action on screen with the script they have for you, so there wasn't a lot of emotional expression that went into the call. We were going to meet my friend Clarissa and some of her friends in Nashville North, but the line was just too long already so instead we hit up a different beer garden. There, we proved our cool-ness by discussing whether the smoking bylaw in Edmonton would also apply to beer gardens or not (as I found out on the news after we got back, apparently it does).
After more walking around and a roller coaster ride, we headed to BP's for dinner and a team pitcher. We had initially intended to go out after, but that sort of fizzled. We did meet up with Julia there, though, and she gave us a ride back to Cam's.
The ride home was fairly uneventful, apart from the construction on the bridge by Leduc. All in all a good weekend.
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