Peaced out of Mexico for Thanksgiving and the entire month of December. I went with my girlfriend and Vincienzo. We stopped in San Diego first just for one night before heading to Arizona to have Thanksgiving with family. We stopped at this restaurant called Stackers that uses Ipads for their menus. I thought it was pretty cool.





We also went to Cheesecake factory where we uncovered their covert racism:



Top signs warns that the area has asbestos or something and how shell fish can be dangerous.

Bottom sign (in spanish) warns people about heavy alcohol consumption.

Thought that was really funny. Don't warn the Mexicans about the cancer causing materials, just make sure they know to moderate their drinking.


Then headed out to Arizona where I subjected girlfriend and Vince to very awkward social moments with my family. It got a bit better when we all started drinking and my grandpa started telling his war stories from Nam. His stories were actually the highlight of the trip. My brother got too drunk and started talking shit and it was all very uncomfortable for everyone for a good hour. Gotta love family.

Headed back to San Diego where I shipped the GF back to Mexico and Vince and I stayed with Teejay and Craig. It was totally cool of them to let us crash there for 2 days. They have a really sick pad in downtown SD across from Petco Park. You can see the games from their roof. We went to Coronado island and had some beers the first night.



Heading back to the mainland, Vinciente decided he doesn't need stairs, he'll just float into the boat. End result was failure, bloody leg and wet shoes.

Vincientizo:



Vinceintizo reconsidering his walking abilities:



Back to TJs house:



They invited us to their Turducken Tuesday (please see Craig's blog). It was awesome! First we played beer pong with paddles which I, ahem, crushed with my teammate. I think we went like 15 and 1. We then went and played flag football. My ankle is still faded so I had to play perm quarter back and perm rusher. I slow rolled them a couple of times when I had a long run against a blitz then a deep route and perfect pass from TJ for a score. My ankle was very swolen and I was limping again the next day.



Anyhow, all the guys we met there were way cool. During dinner, a SUPER degen black-jack game broke out.

There were HUGE swings in this game and I had a percentage of the house and wound up profiting a bit.




The next day, Teejay promised his GF that is she quit her job, he would take her to Disneyland. She re-shipped on him and snap quit her job so we headed to Anaheim for the day.






At disneyland, they sell a HUGE turkey leg for 10 bucks. It was like the last thing I thought I'd find at Disneyland. This thing is big enough for like 3 people so Vince and I worked on it.



Anyhow, trip has been fun. I've done so much damn driving though. I got my Iphone4s which I love. Downloaded some sick games including Temple Run that Jaymesbond recommended.

Anyhow, currenty in Vegas with Vinstanzito and about to head to Yosemite via Death Valley. Still taking lots of pics so I will have a second blog post about this trip later.

Looking forward to the Bay Area where I may meet up with Kay who I met last summer in vegas. That should be fun....

Till then...