* Sadly, I'm skipping the game in Baton Rouge tonight. Weak, I know. But, after 4 days in Miami/Key West, and the lassie's family coming to stay with us for the next week of Mardi Gras....ugh. The LAST thing I want to do right now is anything that requires getting off the couch. Well, except for clean up the yard, the house, wash the sheets, go grocery shopping, wash the dogs, and about a million other things to get ready for visitors.
* Key West is awesome. In fact, we're already planning our next trip there this summer. Judging by pricing, the heat of the summer must be their down time. For the week after the 4th of July....
- round trip flight for 2 to Fort Lauderdale = 9,000 points
- round trip shuttle to Key West for 2 = $100
- hotel ~ $200/night
* That's a great little crew we had for Ragnar. The 3 Schem boys are great, plus Wodie Sloot's cousin and some random dude who's a forensic IT specialist for the US government. Uhhh....yeah. Don't f with that dude.
* Highlight of the whole race:
Considering the destination was Key West, it should come as no surprise that there were a LOT of hoe moes. In fact, we started with the most flamboyant of those teams. One dude was wearing skin tight spandex booty shorts, with a stuffed front pocket/pouch for his junk.
At the halfway point, there was a high school that was open for runners, and they were letting people use the shower room. So, MCF is finishing up his turn, and his pops follows him right after.....and so do a whole shower room full of kweers. According to MCF, his dad basically walked into a locker room full of dudes snapping each other with towels, joking about sharing a stall, and helping each other wash their hard-to-reach areas.
* There was really only one place I was dying to visit on the island: Captain Tonys. If you're a Jimmy Buffett fan, he was a patron and long-time friend of Tony, and sang about him and the bar in
The Last Mango In Paris. It was one of those places where people staple business cards and dollar bills on the ceilings and wall. We put one up:
"ROB BOWLING FOR MAYOR. -CASEY AND TIFFANY."
Loser.