I'm typing this up at Zeke's & Reile's apartment. This whole trip has been quite fun from the first minutes. The road trip lasted about 7.5 hours or so. I kept a pretty good pace up and followed a mini cooper that really enjoyed good passes. No tickets & no wrecks = good trip. All though we almost had one wreck where the traffic stopped on the interstate to where I had to hit the breaks pretty hard and potentially squeel left of a car, but no problems as I had it under control.
We stayed at Shawn's apartment the first night to party a bit. We went to a karaoke bar and got our drink on. Sang a lil Darkness: I believe in a thing called love & ... something else I think. Drove home when I shouldn't have and crashed at Shawn's place. Oh, crashed as in slept, I didn't park my car in his house or anything. Next mornin we drove to the event site which was a 30 minute drive or so.
I burnt out my whole body on the first day starting by parking a couple blocks from the hotel. The streets were pretty thick with parking so I didn't have a choice. My one bag felt about 50 lb's or so with the additional sleeping bag and backpack. I wasn't too happy carrying it and my shoulders and arms almost fell off by the time we got to McCormick Place. The suite was packed with ...30 or so people so it was interesting having bags and junk in every inch of carpet. I shred quite a bit the first day > exercised while waiting for the pizza > shred after pizza > hand stand contest > stair contest.
With that said, I've been pretty sore every day after. Shred was pretty under par for the most part. I'm having second thoughts on my Frees because of that. I'm still having problems keeping that damned silicone on and the toes are killin me. Decisions decisions. I brought my skates to have for the event site because the site is so friggen huge. The downside though is I think the security guards were more strict this year because I got kicked off my skates pretty early. This lady chased me down on a Segway, damned segways. Speaking of segways, I almost got hit by one also. Later that evening I was in a shred circle and a segway came through where we were kicking. I walked out of the circle to pick up the bag and didn't see him coming. I turned around and stopped myself just in time holding my momentum back before my toes would have gotten ran over and I would have been roadkill from a segway. Later that evening we got kicked out of that location, but I'm not complaining too much about that because we had a good hour + all to ourselves. We tried a second location and got kicked out in like...15-20 minutes. Not as good of luck as last year.
Had a couple drinks that night before the handstand / stair contest. Couple red headed sluts, couple double shots of jager & vodka, couple beers. Tom beat me this year due to me being gassy. That's right, I said it ! On the 3rd and last round of distance I got about 25 feet and farted in the quiet hall which was then immediately lit up with laughing. I couldn't concentrate because I was laughing extremely hard. I immediately fell into a door after that. So props to Tom for out walking me. The stair contest was against a fellow named Scott. He said he'd race me if I had 2 more drinks and he could wear shorts. So yeah, that's how it went. I passed him early and kept going. I got to floor 18 or so and it became quiet. I got to the top with a pretty time, but I was dying from exhaustion. I guess Scott tried beating me by running to the elevator, but to his dismay, my legs are faster than elevators
Some other highlights of the event was the free massage I got at Mccormick place, watching criminals running from the police, watching Dave stomp the competition, boxing Hen and givin him some hurt, chillin with all my friends, eating delicious pizza, meeting some nice girls, meeting some new shredders. It was very cool meeting Rory because I saw him in the hotel kitchen and I was like..."Have I met you before?" "Hi, my name is Rory." "OOOohhh, I know you, but I don't know you in real life." So yeah, it's always neat meeting people in real life when you've seen videos of them and such. Nice guy, he is also very luck in having a nice girlfriend that kicks too.
Last night was the only night where I didn't really go out and party, thank god. I was pooped and didn't have my energy left in me. I crashed out early around 1 am or so while the Boondock Saint's was playing. As of now I'm washing my laundry and watching The Tick. Good times, chill, I liiiike. I'll repost when I get some pictures up. So far I've taken quite a few pics and only a couple short vids.
Be back in 2007, peace !
. Couple traffic jams here and there, but other than that a smooth roadtrip. 
