Your crew has extended its ordinary trip by a day. The reason for this is mostly to hang out with Papa Si and Anne, but also to sneak another round of golf into this trip. We might be running out of steam, be we will give it a shot. A warning to our more sensitive readers, there is a small bit of cursing near the end, but that particular moment has to be captured exactly, or else it won't have the same effect. You know, journalistic integrity.
05:30 - Tony is up. Hits the hot tub.
06:10 - Pepster is up. Leaves the mother-in-law suite where he has been staying to head to the main house. Tony in the hot tub scares him to death.
06:25 - Sinickal is out of his room.
06:30 - Kev-O comes out of his room.
Some work, some phone calls, some packing. We have to check out of the AirBnB.
08:57 - Head up to Papa Si and Anne's to drop off our luggage and continue to golf.
09:52 - Enter Legend Trail. Told by the staff that, "The snakes are out!"
10:00 - Inexplicably remember we forgot to add a story from brunch on Sunday, so we will add it here. As we leave, Big Wigg tries to retrieve his car from the valet, which was parked immediately adjacent to the valet stand. The valet had locked his key fob inside somehow, and Big Wigg could not open the doors. After much consternation, Sinickal downloads an app, which ultimately unlocks the doors. The irony here is that Big Wigg made a conscious decision to take his car because it is way more fun to drive than his truck, and given the great weather we have been having, the car won out. Not sure what we would have done had technology not won out.
10:22 - We remember we also left off this story from brunch. Somehow, amazingly, for the third time this trip, the topic of Diddy comes up. Remembering that he hasn't even been arrested yet, Pepster remarks that one person has been arrested, that being a former Syracuse player. Sinickal retorts, all of our schools have their things, remember Vivek Ramaswamy went to Harvard!" Ouch. Interestingly he chose Ramaswamy instead of like, Ted Kaczynski. Sinickal notes that the Unabomber went to Michigan. We check to confirm. He went to Harvard for college and Michigan for his Masters' and Ph.D. Somehow, we are both right in the same argument, again. We should re-tell the Indianapolis Meridian/Canterbury Hotel argument. Ok, not now. Back to today.
10:48 - Tee-off time!
10:50 - Tony tees off. Re-injures his back. Short day for him.
11:45 - First approach of the beverage attendant on hole 6. Some issues with inventory on items we ordered. Pepster easily just switches to something else. She says, "Thanks for being so easy!" Sinickal retorts, "That's what his wife said!"
14:48 - Kev-O with back-to-back birdies on 15 and 16.
15:07 - Finish golf.
15:15 - Driving around North Scottsdale between Legends Trail and and Sinickal's parents house and Sinickal is noting some of the unique neighborhoods, including the one where the houses come with their own hangar for a private airfield. Some of the houses have allowances for the planes to drive right up to the house itself.
15:16 - Sincikal points out an RV garage on another house.
15:21 - Enter Roadhouse, a hideaway bar. So, Scottsdale had it's bike week last week, ending Sunday. I bring this up because Roadhouse is a biker bar/dive bar, and must have had a huge celebration as workers were tearing down scaffolding, stages, etc. It is also the local Chicago Bears bar!
15:23 - Tony orders a Guinness. When informed that they have no Guinness [Ed. Note - It isn't that type of place] - he orders any Stout. Ends up with a Dos Equis.
15:24 - They must have had an enormous celebration. And, we are not sure how they fit an entire dump truck in this bar!
16:05 - Sinickal noted that Google saw an upswing in searches for "My eyes hurt" the day of, and after, the solar eclipse. Tony notes that people have nothing between the ears. The bartender, overhearing our conversations responds immediately, "They have a brain, it is just perfectly smooth, with no bends, folds, or curves." This might be the smartest cut-down we have ever heard
16:17 - We ask for the check so we can head to Papa Si and Anne's. Same bartender asks, "Are you cheating on me!"
16:25 - Heading to Sinickal's parents. Rudy's barbecue awaits! Ribs, beef, sausage and all the fixin's. Plus Sinickal's family friends Don and Yvonne, and Ed and LaRue, in addition to Papa Si and Anne! Lots of food and good company.
18:07 - Kev-O ends up in a discussion about the UK coaching predicament, vis-a-vis the recruits. Kev-O, who just really wants a coach first, explains that the recruits can go wherever they want, and likely one or two will go to Arkansas, or wherever their second choice was. They can do this because they aren't even students yet. Kentucky has no control over their decision. Lamenting how things worked back in the day, Ed decides to do a little research and calls his friend ...THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF ENFORCEMENT FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERNCE! Now that is just showing off. [Ed. Note - Kev-O was correct.]
18:21 - Papa Si comes out to the patio where we are eating, but he comes from a different direction than everyone else enters the patio. Sinickal asks him why he came from the other direction, when he has company in the main room. Papa Si responds, "You still have to go to the bathroom when you have company!"
18:26 - Papa Si delivers this gem, "Doctors find out what you love to do and then they tell you not to do that anymore!"
From here on out it is just all 10 of us in various conversations and having a blast, from Angel Reese, to Uber versus taxi, to public transportation in general, to moving back to cities, to basketball results, to nothing and everything. Then ...
19:35 - Don's son calls and Don picks up. His son says something that had to have been, What are you up to? We hear Don say, "We are all trash talking!"
20:11 - Head to the airport to drop off Kev-O for his flight.
20:48 - Drop off Kev-O.
20:49 - Car with the license plate FBIAGNT stops in front of us. UConn supporters jump out.
21:23 - Back to Raodhouse.
21:24 - Those workers moved quickly. All of the scaffolding and temporary event stages are gone. AND SO IS THE DUMP TRUCK! Must have only been in the bar for the bike show.
21:46 - A guy and his guitar steps onto the small stage to perform and asks the crowd - all 8 people mind you - if they have any requests. Random shouts out, "Tenacious D's Fuck Her Softly!" Performer complies by playing that song.
21:49 - 22:12 - Guy plays a lot of Nirvana. He is actually pretty good.
22:12 - We call it a night, and head back home. Long weekend.
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