Longest Happy Hour...

Well folks, let let leme tell you the story of the longst happy hour there ever was....

As I was about to step into my Irvine rent-a-pad after a long and frustrating work week last Friday, I got a phone call.

"Yo, what are you doing?", the voice said.
"Nothing much, thinking of going running in a bit, whatz up?"
"We are in Maki Maki in the Spectrum, wanna come?", the voice asked.
"Ney, I am tired, its been a long week"
"Just come by, we've been here since 430, come, we have saved some sake for you already", the voice insisted.
'Fine....I'll be there in 10."

What went down after that will be remembered as "The Happy Hour of 2007"

So, after 20 min. of trying to find a parking spot in the Specturm and another 15 wondering where the heck Maki Maki is, I finally arrived at my destination. And to no one's suprise, I found 3 drunks and 1 DD (not by choice of course). After a heartly greetings (and offerings) of a few bottle of Sakes, we postulated:

"So what are we gonna to do?"
"I donno, its only 7:45"
"Lets go somewhere!"
"Where?"
"Vegas?"
"No, too far away"
"TJ?"
"Shit, I am not driving there"
"humm..."
"Lets go gamble in Pechanga!"
'Yeah, they have a nice bar there, we can drink there too"
"Okay...."



So the 5 of us packed ourselves into my little Lexus and off we went to Pechanga....(the DD drove of course, since I am a super light weight drinker, especially with Sakes)

Fast forward to 1:00AM Saturday morning. After our traditional runs of blackjack table, slot machines, pawgaw table, and of course the craps table, and oh, did I mention the none stop trips to the bar.

We postulated again...

"humm, should we go home, its getting late?"
"Yeah, I am tired too"
"Booo, party poopers"
"Check this out, there is a poker Tournement tomorrow , 7K total winnings, not bad"
"Wanna do it"
"Lets do it"
"Hell no"
"Comeon, you know you want to do it, tell you what, lets toss a coin, heads we stay, tails we go home"
"F#*kers....fine"

So....
Back to the casino we went.

Fast forward to 4:00AM

After more drinking, gambling, and occassional suggestion by one of us that we should bum some happy grass from the brothers sitting in the next table to make the night complete. We realized that we should get some rest before the tournment starts....

and just with our luck, the receptionist at the check in desk informed us the place is sold out (Pechanga sold out!?! go figure), but fortunately there is a Hamton Inn close by....but with our diretion sense, we of course didn't find our hotel until 5:00AM in the morning....


Fast forward to 10:00AM Saturday morning.

Tournement starts. All 5 of us entered the 380 people tournement pale faced as we paid the $25 entree fee. By now we were all hoping for a quick exit...


2:30pm, Saturday

I found myself, together with one friend, in the FINAL TABLE of the tournment!!!!
I finished 17th! btw, and my friend actually came in 1st. My hope for a quick exit was obviously dashed, but hey, it's kinda fun....

4:30pm, Saturday. Spectrum parking lot.

"Thanks for driving Eddie, wanna get something to eat?"
"I feel like eating Japanese food"
"Lets go to Maki Maki and get some drinks too"
"Hell no!"

Then I drove off.... thus cocluding the longest happy hour ever.

I am not going to hang out with those bunch anytime soon for sure....