Monday, July 23, 2007

Okie-Vegas Trip Report: Part 3

One word sums up the next arrival at Okie-Vegas.... JORDAN!!!!
Jordan arrives in Oklahoma and the excitement we already have goes up another notch. We leave the airport and head for the "lake house". Oh...one thing I'm leaving out is that every time there is food there is something that Kat has never had before. I'm expecting a post Kat, don't forget!!
We arrive at the lake house and it's awesome. Gary has sold you on thinking it's some little po-dunk trailer by the lake. Well, it's HUGE-normous.
We are starving when we get there and Gary lets us know they have a grille down at the store near his place. Jordan, Kat, Skidoo, and myself set out on foot and walk to the store. It's a little hot outside but bearable. We place our order and go to the bar next door to the store to sit down and have a drink while we wait on our food. The bar is exactly as I had imagined it would be. I will not attempt to describe it because I would fail miserably. We leave the bar, grab our food and head back to the house. Maudie arrives and brings along Gracie and F-Train. Now we have a blogger PARTY!!!!!! F-Train is a madman and crazy cool and Gracie is so nice!!! Every time I think we have reach the peak of sensory overload.....hah...not even close!!
The ladies go for a walk and the guys hang out on the screened in porch (yes, it got completed in time) and talk for a while. We decide to walk down to the bar and look for the girls. The bar has completely transformed from the earlier quiet little place to a packed out madhouse full of locals. Throw in a group of crazy bloggers from all over the place and you have a party. We shoot pool and throw darts and get to know some of Gary's "lake-house" neighbors. Janet, Lona, Shithead, K.K., Shorty, Ray, and many, many more. Skidoo and TripJax tell them it's their birthday thinking they are going to get a free drink. hehehehehe......that's not what you get for your birthday at this bar. You get Janet's paddle right on your rumpus....and we're not talking a love tap, we're talking POWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
I could have hung out at the bar all night but we had some poker playing to do, so we wrapped up our pizza and headed for the house. We sit around and talk some more and it's very nice just to be hanging out with everyone.
Instant Tragedy is close to arriving and we decide to set up a "fake" hand of holdem for him. It's designed for him to hit quads and Maudie to beat him with a straight flush. He gets there and the volume knob goes to 11 as the hand is dealt. Something went wrong with the hand and he gets the wrong cards. It's hilarious and I don't know what happened but I do know one thing; Jordan had it set up perfectly so I'm guessing the cards somehow got moved around before we started during all the chaos.
We start the real sit-n-go and Tragedy has a gift for every person there. It's awesome. Kat wins the tournament (I'm sensing a trend here) and Maudie, Gracie, and FTrain call it a night. After they leave we start up a cash game and Shithead, Janet, and K.K. show up to play. We play late in to the night and Tragedy deals for us. We play until one by one people can't hold their eyes open and finally reluctantly call it a night.
Gary and I are the last two standing. We realize it's only a couple of hours before we have to be at his house in OKC, so we say our goodnights and get some shut-eye.
When I get up, Gary is up and has coffee made. He and I are the first two up and we enjoy a cup before waking everyone else. Tragedy has to go back to Texas so we say our goodbyes and the rest of us head for OKC..............