What constitutes success? Here's my take:
- Weather (A plus) - Breezy, warm, sunny and spectacular. We were threatened with a tropical storm but no dice. Plenty of adiabatic cooling...occluded fronts...
- Football (A plus) - Football Thu night, Friday night (kinda, Rutgers-Navy), Sat and Sunday. The boys were a bit comatose on Sunday but I did enjoy the Pats domination. Johnny, not so much. That Cle-Pit game was a real winner.
- The talent (A plus) - Simply astounding. This, of course, does not include the night at Poe's on Sully's Island that included some questionable decisions. However, it was made nice by the fact that we got to drink on Tim O's card while he was sleeping. Full disclosure, I took a little nappy poo also.
- Golf (A plus) - Stono Ferry - nice start for very reasonable price. Depite the fact that old sob wanted to shake down my shoe bag and prove it was a cooler. Those Stono Ferry holes on the river were nice. Charleston National - very nice course with only drawback the recently aerated greens. Dunes West (Links) - Nice course with beautiful 16/17/18 but pricey. Abbott and Gallaher (?) did get to play a ball off the beach. Not a trap, the beach. We all were drunk at tee time and some recovered (BC's eggs, 10 strips of bacon and 2 coffeess pulled it out for me) but BeeHee did not seem to bounce back on Saturday. His round? Not so enjoyable.
- Town (A plus) - Sullivan's Island and downtown Charleston had plenty to offer. We made it out to Poe's on Friday night and into Charleston on Saturday. Mad River Saloon was a blast. A great football game, an awesome waitress, a big table on the dance floor, a rugby party, rugby queens, talent galore...
- House (A plus) - The house, despite a few visits of the famed and dreaded Palmetto bug, was quite nice. What a location on the beach. Nice deck overlooking the Atlantic and the dreaded Breach Inlet ("stay away from that inlet, it's got suck holes").
- The right people together (Off the chart) - We missed you Plankster. KMAC was very disappointed and upset, as were all of us, but we did a few ceremonial "Planskers" for you. However, the real fun was the poor girl that asked Chris to go dance. She almost rann away from him after a few seconds of the Farmer Ted spastic dance. Amazingly enough we found rugby queens and a rugby party at Mad River. Great guys make for a great time. Lots of stories to tell and I'll use this post or the next to tell some stories.
- The ocean (A plus) - Took advantage of that bad bitch. ("Wish I was ocean size, no one moves you man, no one tries") Nice waves, nice warm water, once again great sites. I don't think Chris or Kevin made it into the water.
- Food (A) - Lots of hot dogs. Lots of brats. Lots of chips. One nice steak at the house, one good dinner at Rue de Jean.
- Crazy Carl and the people train runs out of ...(snort snort) Stubbsville.
Early award results for the weekend:
Most hot dogs eaten - Schlongo
Most love dispersed - KMAC
Most audacious line - I can name 20 qbs better than Eli Manning. Peyton, Palmer, Brady, Kitna, Jason Campbell, Quincy Carter... - KMAC
More to follow...
