13. Flagstaff Part Deux

Aug 2, 2009 Uncategorized

Since i’ve been too lazy to update this blog in a timely manner, my timeline of events is off. My apologies. While in Flagstaff I also checked out the Arizona Cardinals mini-camp. I met up with Tim and his fiance’ Steph at the practice field. It was a nice day and we spent about an hour watching from the peanut gallery. My observations were that Kurt Warner looked like shit and Larry Fitzgerald is a hard working guy.

Here where my timeline gets iffy. I can’t remember which night it was, but I think it was Saturday night that I went out to downtown Flagstaff with Tim again. A lot of his old friends from high school were in town. Some of which he hadn’t seen in over 5 years. So his plan was to join them downtown for a few drinks.

Our friend Carri was also going out that night too. Her sister and her sister’s friend were visiting from Colorado. My friend Christi was also included in that group. The sister’s friend is a Denver Nuggets cheer leader. When I met her she just came up and started dancing all crazy style. I’m all for intense dancing, lord knows I’ve been there, but I was nursing my first when she got and was way to sober to kick my dancing skills up to her level.

Carri and Christi wanted to get drinks so the 3 of us went to the bar. Carri asked me what I was drinking and I said tequila and sprite. As a disclaimer, let me warn you that tequila and sprite is a terrible drink. I usually can’t think of anything to order at bars so I usually just guess by mixing alcohol+something. For a long time I went with those two, and at this point I actually like them. Most people find the tequila taste to be too powerful and hate it. Carri assumed I ordered good drinks, so she ordered that for all 3 of us. I was fine with it, but I told the girls they better ask for a few more limes.

Tim was spending time telling his former classmates how’s he been doing. He may have even had to tell the same story 2, 3, and possibly even 4 times. I thought he heard us say we were going to a different bar, but I guess he didn’t. My bad, Tim. So we left for San Felipes.

At this point I had consumed a couple more cocktails and was feeling a bit looser and ready to dance. I guess the cheer leader had too because she and Christi were suddenly dancing atop the bar (it’s allowed at this bar). So Carri and I were left at the base of it wondering what to do. As I mention earlier in the blog, I’ve danced on bars before. It was actually at this bar last Halloween. So I once again used the cunning line of “I will if you will.” That was all Carri need to hear to get her dancing feet up on the bar.

So now the 4 of us were up there dancing. At this point I felt like quite the champion, maybe even godlike. I mean here I was dancing with 3 chicks atop the bar for everyone to see. Then a kid I played hockey with 2 years earlier called out my name. I was like “hey, how you doing?” I was never that outspoken on the team, and I only played for a semester. So I’m sure he was quite surprised to see me at a bar years later dancing on it with chicks. I’m still waiting to get the pics from Carri. She almost seemed embarrassed by these photos and has been quite hesitant to let have them.

[pics - san felipes]

After that night I said some good byes and hit the road. My original plan was to head east to Albuquerque, but after a few people told me that it was a gang infested shithole I decided to follow Tim’s advice and head to Zion national park in Utah.

I took these pics in the far northern parts of AZ on the way to Zion

This is some bridge

More shots closer to southeast Utah