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7 days 6 nights all of which are foggy
You know your in for a good vacation, when the ticket you didn't have to pay for (thank Rah) gets bumped up from coach and 1 stopover to first class direct.
5 double gin&tonics later.. i think they were G&T's and a DareDevil movie, and i was in Chicago. But the food....ooooh the food...no first class meal for me....
Good ol Ming picked me up at O'Hare about 5 min too soon, but hey you can't win em all
Ming lives in a great house, all of you whom have been know what i am talking about, its a guys dream (the basement anyways) the rest is your well to do family home and as long as you ignore the freakish weather which seems to circulate the top floor your fine
The family was great, especially his youngest daughter whom was just adorably cute (she was only 7-9 i think)(thanks to all for letting us use their computers)
Berz drove up and arrived about 4 hours later, a tiny bit dusty IIRC. We did the liquor store thing, actually we did the liquor store thing alot .....
We watched some baseball , talked sports, drank MANY beers and ordered pizza...the infamous pizza i was always hearing about on friday nights... and yes, its damm good. We watched Ming moderate, and all i can say is 'leave this poor man alone with your stupid comments and complaints' What a horrible job policiing this place, i don't eveny this mans position.
Rah showed up after his family committments, for just "one more"...needless to say it was a late night.
Nicely trashed i got about 4 hours sleep, Ming kept me up with his late night stories while Berz was ouuuuut cold.
Hardly had i closed my eyes when Rah came downstairs at some sort of ungodly hour flicking on the very bright lights..... the term scurrying like cockroaches was mentioned....
Apparently we were off to play some stupid game where you hit a ball with a crooked stick and then hunt around looking for it, once you find it , YOU HIT IT AGAIN........not once but multiple times.
(little carlan there for you Berz)
The best part of golf of course , was the 6-8 shots of vodka and lemonade and driving the golf cart, b/c it certainly wasn't my golf game. Loosely translated, i suck big time. The mosquitos weren't that bad, i think i only had about 12 welts on my legs
Camping , who needs camping? I can just golf, become an alcohalic, catch west nile, get high blood pressure and still smile when i make par, what other sport has so much to offer. Did i mention there was another 6-8 shots on the back nine followed by beers. There was the lettuce too..which ironically i didn't partake too much in...but i do know of another 
We played four rounds of Golf in all, i did get better, but it was Berz whom stole the show and for his efforts won the putter of Ra! His treat, getting to play Kemper Lakes, home of a few of the major golf championships and one tough course. Can you say great lakes? Anyone whom has played Golden Tee golf will know this phrase "get the snorkel" or this one "It's in the beach!"
We did manage to get a ball game in.....and at 700 for two tickets, we had a major deal on our hands.......
Tickets were allegedly selling for 1500 a piece, again paid for by the Rah man. So the two of us went, ate footlong dogs and drank beers while munching peanuts.
The atmosphere was electric and the game was almost everything i could ask for. I was surrounded by yankee/bosox fans whom had come out to watch Clemens win his 300th.
It ended miserably as Erick Karros deposited the first pitch he saw off the piece of sh!t Jaun Acevado (later released) for a three run dinger. Moments earlier i called the result to a fellow yankee/clemens fan beside me.....and with a THWACK! all 40,000 fans new he had gone yard. We were in disbelief and no one knew at the time why clemens was pulled , but it didn't matter, the dream had been shattered.
We played some civ games. With only three puters, someone usually kibitz around, in fact we alternated this routine. A most enlightening experience and we all learned a few tricks or at the very least , some insight into how the other guy plays.
The whining on the other hand, was pure vintage twins. It got so bad one game that Rah just upped an quit on us...which lead to Ming complaining and myself giving out alot of restarts
In all fairness, i was getting the chariots and decent land most often 
We ate out or ordered in EVERY night and my lord did we eat. I was most impressed with Mings ability to eat. Its perfectly logical to order a cheeseburger platter on top of a hot roast beef sandwhich with mashed potatoes and gravy...so much so that i had to do it too... Or the large pizza and an order of ravioli along with a nice light guiness to wash it down with.......I don't recall tasting much food, just wolfing it down like the last supper.
There was an issue that arose. We ate some sort of brick of onions....and my lord did some people pay for it. The Diesel fumes were pretty raunchy both on and off the golf course. That didn't stop the onions from flowing from virtually every meal....coupled with the 15-25 beer a day habit and well.......someone was rotten
It was catchy....the disease inflicted us all .
It was alot of fun, the hospitality was unheralded (thanks to rah for payin and to ming for putting us up) it was great to meet JR and Berz.
sorry i couldn't get this posted earlier, but i was really busy, and sorry for the typos and poor verb tenses..but i am too tired to give a damm.
once again, thanks to the twins , and if any of you happen to be in chicago, i suggest you meet these two for a beer..... you won't leave without laughing and having a good time..... and thats what a vacation is all about
5 double gin&tonics later.. i think they were G&T's and a DareDevil movie, and i was in Chicago. But the food....ooooh the food...no first class meal for me....
Good ol Ming picked me up at O'Hare about 5 min too soon, but hey you can't win em all
Ming lives in a great house, all of you whom have been know what i am talking about, its a guys dream (the basement anyways) the rest is your well to do family home and as long as you ignore the freakish weather which seems to circulate the top floor your fine
The family was great, especially his youngest daughter whom was just adorably cute (she was only 7-9 i think)(thanks to all for letting us use their computers)
Berz drove up and arrived about 4 hours later, a tiny bit dusty IIRC. We did the liquor store thing, actually we did the liquor store thing alot .....
We watched some baseball , talked sports, drank MANY beers and ordered pizza...the infamous pizza i was always hearing about on friday nights... and yes, its damm good. We watched Ming moderate, and all i can say is 'leave this poor man alone with your stupid comments and complaints' What a horrible job policiing this place, i don't eveny this mans position.
Rah showed up after his family committments, for just "one more"...needless to say it was a late night.
Nicely trashed i got about 4 hours sleep, Ming kept me up with his late night stories while Berz was ouuuuut cold.
Hardly had i closed my eyes when Rah came downstairs at some sort of ungodly hour flicking on the very bright lights..... the term scurrying like cockroaches was mentioned....
Apparently we were off to play some stupid game where you hit a ball with a crooked stick and then hunt around looking for it, once you find it , YOU HIT IT AGAIN........not once but multiple times.
(little carlan there for you Berz)
The best part of golf of course , was the 6-8 shots of vodka and lemonade and driving the golf cart, b/c it certainly wasn't my golf game. Loosely translated, i suck big time. The mosquitos weren't that bad, i think i only had about 12 welts on my legs
Camping , who needs camping? I can just golf, become an alcohalic, catch west nile, get high blood pressure and still smile when i make par, what other sport has so much to offer. Did i mention there was another 6-8 shots on the back nine followed by beers. There was the lettuce too..which ironically i didn't partake too much in...but i do know of another We played four rounds of Golf in all, i did get better, but it was Berz whom stole the show and for his efforts won the putter of Ra! His treat, getting to play Kemper Lakes, home of a few of the major golf championships and one tough course. Can you say great lakes? Anyone whom has played Golden Tee golf will know this phrase "get the snorkel" or this one "It's in the beach!"
We did manage to get a ball game in.....and at 700 for two tickets, we had a major deal on our hands.......
Tickets were allegedly selling for 1500 a piece, again paid for by the Rah man. So the two of us went, ate footlong dogs and drank beers while munching peanuts.
The atmosphere was electric and the game was almost everything i could ask for. I was surrounded by yankee/bosox fans whom had come out to watch Clemens win his 300th.
It ended miserably as Erick Karros deposited the first pitch he saw off the piece of sh!t Jaun Acevado (later released) for a three run dinger. Moments earlier i called the result to a fellow yankee/clemens fan beside me.....and with a THWACK! all 40,000 fans new he had gone yard. We were in disbelief and no one knew at the time why clemens was pulled , but it didn't matter, the dream had been shattered.
We played some civ games. With only three puters, someone usually kibitz around, in fact we alternated this routine. A most enlightening experience and we all learned a few tricks or at the very least , some insight into how the other guy plays.
The whining on the other hand, was pure vintage twins. It got so bad one game that Rah just upped an quit on us...which lead to Ming complaining and myself giving out alot of restarts
In all fairness, i was getting the chariots and decent land most often We ate out or ordered in EVERY night and my lord did we eat. I was most impressed with Mings ability to eat. Its perfectly logical to order a cheeseburger platter on top of a hot roast beef sandwhich with mashed potatoes and gravy...so much so that i had to do it too... Or the large pizza and an order of ravioli along with a nice light guiness to wash it down with.......I don't recall tasting much food, just wolfing it down like the last supper.
There was an issue that arose. We ate some sort of brick of onions....and my lord did some people pay for it. The Diesel fumes were pretty raunchy both on and off the golf course. That didn't stop the onions from flowing from virtually every meal....coupled with the 15-25 beer a day habit and well.......someone was rotten
It was catchy....the disease inflicted us all .
It was alot of fun, the hospitality was unheralded (thanks to rah for payin and to ming for putting us up) it was great to meet JR and Berz.
sorry i couldn't get this posted earlier, but i was really busy, and sorry for the typos and poor verb tenses..but i am too tired to give a damm.
once again, thanks to the twins , and if any of you happen to be in chicago, i suggest you meet these two for a beer..... you won't leave without laughing and having a good time..... and thats what a vacation is all about
, is a very high compliment to Ming and Rah and their families 
Did you get your own VIP lounge or something?
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