How's it going People? Well, let me say that my first days in Tampa have been quite interesting. Within my first 12 hours in town, we were greeted by the Tampa Police Dept. Rachael, Grant (Rachael's brother), and I met up with Brian and Rachelle (Bday girl) at Howl at the Moon (Dueling Piano Bar) down by the entertainment district known as Channelside. Rachael and I had a blast. You will see in the pictures below that we were drinking from the "bucket". A bucket is 86 ounces of your choice between a Hurricane, Sex on the Beach, Margarita, and a couple of other drinks. Brian and crew had a bucket and we went and got a bucket for us. We had the hurricane first and it was actually very tasty. We had a shot of Rumpleminz as well along with a beer chaser. That first bucket went down rather quickly with the 3 of us nursing it together. We decided we would go ahead and get another bucket. This time it was a sex on the beach bucket. It was even tastier than the first bucket. Rachael and I would go out every so often to smoke. We were pretty much toasted by around 1230a. We hung around til around 1am. The piano bar was awesome. So we finally talked Grant into going back to the house. Well, around 2am, with Grant driving, we got pulled over by an undercover cop. To make that story in itself short, the outcome was, he refused to blow, he failed the sobriety test, and he was hauled off to jail and his car was impounded. But, the cops were nice enough to bring Rachael and me back home. Rachael didn't have her house keys, so we had to "break in" through one of the windows. So all in all, it was a great night with an unexpected ending. Rachael and Lisa went and got Grant out of jail Sunday morning. Sunday was pretty much an uneventful day. Rachael and I went grocery shopping. I stayed the night over at Lisa's so I could house sit to wait on the repairman to fix her AC's, while she went to the lawyers office with Grant. Monday was just a quiet day. Lisa's hubby had two tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightning vs Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game on Tuesday. Since the Florida Gators won the BCS bowl game on Monday night, and he had partied too hard celebrating their victory he told Lisa that we could go to the Hockey game. With me being a virgin to so much culture, Lisa figured she would break me in. We had a blast at the game. I actually enjoyed the game more than I thought I would. The Lightning won the game 3-2. There are some pics of that below as well. I definitely wanna go see more hockey. Yesterday, I helped Lisa finish patching her upstairs kitchen ceiling and I painted it for her. She cooked a marvelous dinner. She made veal Parmesan, corn, and Texas toast. It was very delicious. We have checked out a few more houses. But I guess we have come to the conclusion that we are going to move into an apartment. As much as I want a house, it just doesn't seem there are a lot of them for rent within our budget. I start work next Weds (1-17) and I am so ready to get to work. This little unexpected extra vacation has been fun, but its time to get back in the groove that way I can move into a house and get settled in Tampa and enjoy what this big city has to offer me. I have heard of a couple of bars that I wanna check out that seem to be right up my alley. But there are so many different things to do here other than bars that makes it a nice city to live in. Well, I promise to blog again soon, as my Internet access is limited. As always, Peace OUT!!
Here we are drinking from that bucket
Rachael, Me, and Grant
Mighty tasty I tell ya
Here I am with the Bday girl herself, Rachelle
Here we are again, this time with 2 more buckets. 1 straw was not enough!
This is outside the St. Pete Times Forum before the Hockey game
Here Lisa and I are at the bar at the Forum having the first drink of the evening before the hockey game
Me with rink behind me before the game
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