NYE - Lodge Bar, Downtown !

MMM. I'm ready to get me some New Years Eve.

Goodbye 2009!

Live from Chicago... Day Two

Day Two - Just chilling here in Cody's hotel room. He's at work, watching the Chris Henry news on ESPN. What a sad way to go?

Update: Just got back to the hotel here close to O'Hare. I headed downtown just myself today, was walking around for probably 5.5 hrs? Made it to Navy Pier just in time for the sunset, although I didn't plan it that way.. so was nice. The sight of the city w/ the red sky behind it, all in front of the lake, was realllll pretty lookin and all :) Lots, LOTS of thinking done while down here. After staying at the lake until nightfall, I made my way back downtown and walked up and down Michigan Ave once or twice, or three times.. Got back on the train around 7:30 and back to the hotel around 9p.

Update: Hooter's for dinner and Colts vs Jags, then out to the bars before getting a little sleep and leaving at 6am

Live from Chicago...

Day One - After our first stop on the L: we got off, I realized I left a glove on the train so I run back on, then the doors shut. LOL. So I wave goodbye to Cody as I continue on down the line, leaving him with two locals who were trying to show him magic tricks to get some money. I was rather nervous, but we were reunited shortly.

After stops at the Corner Tap and at the completely unpopulated, yet trendy, Excalibur club, we then pass by an alley where a man is standing next to a door with a couple steel barricades set up around it. Eh.. what the hell? Let's try! So minutes later, we are in the basement of this building that had been turned into one crazy underground night club. Spy Bar? This place was one, incredible, time. And on a Wednesday at that.

Eddie Aikau Invitational - 12.8.09

Yesterday at Waimea Bay the finals were finished up.

Check out this short vid the final round and some of the most massive waves of the comp (3:47).
Or, an even shorter one sporting some wipe outs and rackdiculous waves, here (1:47).