So... The LONG STORY
Friday i spent all day at epic sports taking pictures of everything that george wants to sell. I set up lights and a little backdrop and started into it. It took me about 5 hours to shoot about 200 items of mechandise. And... it's not all done. I gotta go back and shoot some more. I finally bailed out of there at about 4:30 and got all my shit home. At this point it's fuckin raining and i've heard the reports on the swell. Jen is still up for the trip across the channel, so we pack up all our shit and are out the door by 5:30 to sit in a fuckin parking lot on the 710 freeway. What the fuck did you expect. We gave our selves more time than we needed and we get to terminal island in Long Beach to get on the Catalina Express. We were going to be on the Jet Cat Express which is one of the best boats they have going across the channel. The fucker moves fast even in bad seas. So we stand around waiting, Jen pops her drugs for the trip and then we get on board. Most of the occupants are drunk guys going to a wedding who are still in the middle of a bachlor party evening. They are fun to watch as they scream at the people on the boat to change the TV to the lakers game. They don't know that a few minutes before the lakers had lost 100 to 99 as the lakers just stood around watchin a guy go baseline for the winning goal. FUCK! well, back to the story. We pass the breakwater and the boat starts to pitch. HEHEHE. I'm on my second drink and i'm loving it. Jen bails to the back of the boat. My gameboy batteries die and i follow her just to find all the drunk guys standing there lookin at her like OH SHIT, She's gonna be SICK. we make it across the channel just fine, and then as we are pulling into the dock at avalon, then Jen pops. Just like clockwork. exactly 55 minutes into the trip. We get off the boat and file into the taxi que. No problem... Ed is waiting there for us with a golf cart. We drive across town and into Hamilton cove drop all our shit and then drive back to town to get dinner. We decide to go to Anthony's Pizza (i think that's what its called) right next to Armstrongs. Drunk guys are there in the bar. Same ones from the boat. Now louder and make less sense. And.. they try to constantly make toasts to somebody. Can't figure out who. I watch the highlights from the NBA games that night on the screen above jen's head. BTW it's still raining. Back to hamilton cove for the night. jen digs into some work that she brought. I hook up the PS2 and start to play GTA Vice.
Saturday - RAIN
Well avalon still looks good in the rain. We decide to drive all the way from hamilton to buffalo nickel for lunch. This has gotta be one of the best places to eat on the island, and it's out in the middle of fuckin nowhere. Lunch is good as always and we cruise back to the city. We fuck around for a little on the boardwalk and in some shops, then go to the store to buy crap for the day. Go back to hamilton to sit around in the rain. I get a long way in GTA Vice and pop in Tony Hawk 4 to finish off a few goals. I cheat as much as i can becaue my kung fu is not as good as jason's. I need to use slowmotion to complete a few of the goals. We go to Armstrongs Fish for dinner that night and sit at Barb's table. She tells us about all the shit that's going on and brings us drink after drink. And the FOOD. DAMN... the fish there is always fuckin great. We bail from armstrongs and head to the casino. At this point on saturday night it's finally clearing off. We stand out at the breakwater and look at the stars. This may be amazing to a few of you, but there is ONE place in Los Angeles county where you can see the stars clearly. I consider going to see the ring at the casino theater, but nobody else wants to see it after Jen tells them that is't a horror movie. Sunday - WORTH WAITING FOR
I get my ass out of bed at about 6:30 in the morning to go piss. I can't go back to bed cause the bed i'm trying to sleep on is hard as a fuckin slab of steel. So i go take some pictures of the sunrise and then wake everybody else up to tell them to make coffee. We bumb around for an hour or so and sit on the deck. Then we get ready and go get breakfast at the dockside cafe. Well that's not really what its called, but i always forget what they actually call it. There's not a fuckin cloud in the sky. AND.... cause there's been so much rain, there is nobody in the city of avalon. We just hang out and soak up the sun. We don't do much of anything the entire day except relax and sit around. That night we go to Prego for dinner and keep drinking as usual.
Monday - do we have to leave
We get up early again and sit out in the sun. I cruise ship pulls in at about 6:30 in the morning just after sunrise. We go to dockside again to get a bite to eat at about 10 and then run around for the last time in town while my mom buys cards and shit that she wants. We get back to the place and pack up our shit and catch a cab back to the dock. We get on the 11:45 boat and the sea is FLAT! Jen and i sit on the back of the boat the entire time and she makes it across just fine. I get home and just go to sleep. Doing nothing all weekend really takes a lot out of you.
side notes:
Remember: last time i was in avalon in the rain i perched a golf cart with 5 people in it, on a small rock and got us stuck. Now when i drive on the roads i am told where EVERY rock on the road is. When it rains in avalon, the roads are covered with rocks. Jen and i are driving on friday night and a huge fuckin rock came down right in front of our cart. heheh.
ok, that should be enough for the blog police.
Tuesday November 12th 2002 11:05 AM PST
