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April 01, 2008
Most Excellent Weekend
The trip to Florida was totally awesome and there's going to be so many events from it that I just know are going to make their way into future graphic novels.
We got in Sunday morning, got picked up by my buddy Andy, and headed on over to his place to pick up his brothers Charlie and TJ. We had a quick toast to the Wrestling Gods and then headed from beautiful Tampa to beautiful Orlando. Our hotel room was great, having two bedrooms, a full kitchen and full-sized fridge (which we most definitely needed for the amount of beer we were set to consume), and the most-used area, a screened in porch. We chilled there a little too long as we didn't anticipate the amount of traffic going into WRESTLEMANIA.
We got there a little late, missing two and a half matches, getting there in time for the ladder match. We had to walk maybe a mile to get to the arena, which I'm going to go on record saying that it has the worst parking set-up I've ever seen. But, we still get to the show and had a BLAST. We were all in agreement that this was the best live event for any sort of performance we'd ever been to.
The highlight for all of us was being there for Ric Flair's last match, where he 'passed the torch' to Shawn Michaels. It was really an honor to be there for that.
You may have heard about the fireworks malfunction which happened at the end of the night. We were on the opposite side of the arena, but we could see it happen. We did have some embers fall on us, but I don't think anything adverse came from that.
After the show, we made our trek through a rather unsavory part of town back to our car, then headed back to our condo for drinks into the early morning hours. We thought our check-out time was at 11, but a nice housekeeping lady came to inform us at 10:30 that we didn't have to go home, but we had to get the fuck out of there. So we stuck around for another half hour or so killing a few more beers and got on the road back to sunny Tampa.
Once back in Tampa we head to the beach to a great bar called something I can't remember (the sign of a great bar), where we sat on the beach with our drinks and lazed away the remainder of the day. Our flight back to town was uneventful and we made it back just fine to our apartment and two kitties in time to call it a day and hit the hay.
A great trip all around. Thanks again to Andy for putting up with us! I hope to update this post before too long with pictures from the trip once we've got those all processed up.
Posted by Schamberger at April 1, 2008 08:09 AM