I was talking to Harald on the internet yesterday afternoon and he invited me and Benny over to the place him and the other guys are staying at. We get a taxi out to the place they are renting, and its pretty balla. really nice inside with a sweet backyard and pool area. At the house I met in person for the first time Harald (Forza_Acroma), John (Zeenith/soapypapoose), Evan (gripsed.com), OJ (How2usechips), Mads (letsmuckem) Ian (?), and Nick. Evan, John, Ian and Nick were all from Toronto (i think) and the rest of the guys are from norway (i think).

I had played against Harald, John, Evan, Mads and OJ very regularly up until a few months ago when I changed networks, they were/are the old ongame regs and they are all extremely good. We had some beers and they put on a BBQ for us. Thank you very much for having us over, it was great to meet you all and hopefully we can do it all again next year. Anyway after dinner we headed into the Rio via another taxi and went to Voodoo, which is the nightclub on the roof. We attempted to get a table, but the only one they had left was like right next to the speakers, and I would have gone deaf in about 2 seconds had we sat there. We go outside and its a super mad view of the strip, there were a couple of fireworks going off cuz it was the 4th of july. We hang outside for a bit and take it all in, the club is packed. I go to the bathroom and there is a guy working in there at a big sink thing with heaps of cologne and stuff, so i put some on and tip him. Head back outside and we stay for a bit, not for too long though cuz it was $45 for 2 drinks.

On the way out of there Mads has this little thing that looks like a box of shoe polish. He explains to me that its chew tobacco, some really strong stuff that can only be bought in norway. So of course I have some and put it up under my lip how he showed me. It tastes pretty ordinary but i keep it there for a bit. About 2 minutes later I get really lightheaded and feel like ive just had about 10 shots. I spit it out. Fun fun.

We ship on out of there and 7 of us jump in a limo. We buy more champagne and drive around the strip. We go to a casino, no idea what one it is but there are beer pong tables. I have more drinks and start feeling pretty ordinary, so get some subway and feel much better. I meet a girl and chat to her and her husband for a bit and we have these weird shots which is guiness combined with some type of milk drink. Pretty bad. I am not very good at beer pong either. We are there for a few hours i spose but i really have no idea.

At some point all the guys get back together and someone suggests that we should go to the spearmint rhino (look it up). Somehow its light outside already..but inside its extremely dark. We sit down in a booth thingy and some girls come and talk to us. One thing leads to another and all of a sudden most of the guys have been kicked out or left, and its just me and i think Mads (i think) left. Then the girl starts saying I owe her $400 because she did a “dance” for me, whatever that means. Im like “nup I told ya before im not paying you anything”, then she gets the bouncers and I get dragged into a back room behind these curtains. Uh-oh. They start talking to me and telling me to pay up in a not very nice way. I have had about 48 drinks so I tell them not so politely that I wont be paying anything. They try and intimidate me, and it would have worked had I not been drunk. Ha. They threaten to get the cops, I say go ahead. The cops rock up, ask me a few questions, chuck me in handcuffs and we walk outside. The bright sun hurts raiderducks eyes. I get searched by the cops a bit and they ask me some other questions, they uncuff me and give me a red bit of paper which is my official life ban from the spearmint rhino.

I jump in a taxi and tell the taxi driver my story on the way home. For some reason I tip him about $70 for the $15 trip. I get home and go up to the room and there are cops in my room, im like WAT IS GOING ON. Benny was home and couldnt find his wallet, somehow it got in my pocket. I think he gave it to me cuz he didnt wanna be able to spend anything. So the cops in our room leave and I go to bed. When I wake up I discover i have lost my license, my bit of paper from the police detailing my life ban, and I have a cut on my head. I think either one of the bouncers punched me or I ran into a door or something. No idea.

I talk to benny and he gives me the details of how he got kicked out of the club just before I did, he forgot he gave his wallet to me and couldnt find it, so he thought either the girls in the club or one of the bouncers stole it. He said he made a big scene out the front of the club, and said to a mexican bouncer “Your type knows all about this stuff” (in regards to stealing). The bouncers chased him on bikes and benny kicked one of them off his bike and damaged the spokes. Somehow he avoided getting beaten to death. Benny outdid my $70 taxi tip by tipping his driver $200. Good form Benny.

Anyway to Harald, Mads etc - thankyou again for a very cool night and hopefully will catch you guys again soon for more epicness. PS my previous 2 blogs were written this morning after I came home, the first one is god knows what and the 2nd is my chat transcript with punchi.