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Well I suppose I should start with New Orleans. The hostel I stayed in was far from the best I've stayed in but still was in a good location close to the street car and friendly atmosphere! it was called India House Backpackers, the first ngtht I decided to head into the world famous french quater and bourbon st. It was definitely different! You walk down and there are heaps of small bars and strip joints, and restraunts all together with heaps of street performers and music. The 1st night I just stopped in at a lot of different bars that where playing live music which was great.
Iin doing so I ended up having quite a big night and come home that night to find my bag brocken into by the zipper, with some cash stolen :( so the next day I decided I would sit back and have a quiet day just checking out the sights. So I went downtown and did the riverwalk and took some pictures and decided to walk back through a seperate part of town. In doing so I stumbled on this small live concert in a sqaure where they had a stage set up with a band playing some country rock. It was a really cool vibe so I grabbed a beer found a good spot near the stage. Nearing the end of the concert as the band was playing it's encore a guy and a girl asked me if I could take a picture of them. I said yes and considered doing a runner with his cool phone but decided that there was to many people around and would not get far! (just Jokes) I took there photo and we started talking and I told them about my travel and that I was about to head back to the hostel. They told me no way I was coming with them and I was immediately scared!
5am the next day I was being dropped off back at the hostel. great night with great new friends. The next morning was a little worse for wear but did not have a lot of time to get over it as my main man raffa had a big agenda for the next night. the crew where amazing they where so friendly and they pretty much took me all over town this particular night though for some unknown reason we started on the scotch on the rocks way to early and as a result missed my flight to vegas before midday :( much to melvins pleasure because I couldn't get another flight untill th next afternoon! To make things worse the next day I could not find my glasses anywhere.
So raffa was kind enough to let me kip on his couch after another night in new orleans, Him and his roommate dropped us off at the airport after I helped them do some interesting work in the morning (nothing dodgy I promise besides maybe a bunch of screaming 10yr old kids breaking there necks on a water slide) well I was in a mad rush when I got into vegas airport so I couldn't really soak a lot in, as I was already meant to be at the ufc fight with melavs so after a mad dash I met up with Kel dropped my bags in there room and headed to the fight.
It was an electric atmosphere walking in there, and when I finally found melvs I took him by surprise, but not as much as the bloke I had to sit next to took me by surprise!!! He was in every way of the meaning "massive" he was so fat he rolls where bulding over the arm wrest between us and pushing me towards melvs errrh!
There where a couple of awesome fights but the main event was a big let down with not much action! So afterwards me, Kel and Melvs checked out a Nightclub called the rock where we lined up for what would have been close to 2hours, the whole of vegas that night was nuts though because it was a long weekend. Evry place you went to was packed! So nearly deciding to pull the pin we where let in and it was so worth it, we had a great night getting rowdy having vanilla ice play a short set and then melvs and kel hitting a wall!
I saw the guys off the next day and went about doing a bit of sight seeing and activities, Iended up going to a pool party that was unreal, thne later to a big show at the bellagio. all I can say about the rest of the week in vegas is that I met some amazing people made some great friends and had the time of my life P.S. bridgy if u read this you will not like vegas it will like you!!!? The place is detached from reality I'm sure of it.
well that will do for now I have stuff to write about texas but that can wait till after I get back from a little four day concert with my travelling partner for the next week Maxi! here is a taste of the line up thursday best coast, tim minchin, the drums, henry rollins, sleigh bells, deerhunter.
friday ben sollee, freelance whales, florence and the machine, nofx, primus, arcade fire, big boi, lil wayne
saturday mumford and sons, the black keys, fresh tix breakdancing, eminem, scissor sisters, girltalk
sunday robyn, cold war kids, the beautiful girls, the strokes, and there just the ones that I really know there is a s***load I've never heard of :)
peace out till next week willo
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