UFC and Superbowl Weekend
I went to Vegas on Saturday with a guy from my Krav class (nicknamed "Cuco") to see UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship at the Mandalay Bay. We left at 8am and got to Vegas around 2pm, after a stop in Barstow for breakfast and gas/pit stop in Primm (on the state line). Went to a gun shop in Vegas where I shot up a target of Osama Bin Laden with a Tommy gun. (the picture below is me striking a pose). Yes, the OBL target is upside down. That's because most SMGs (the Tommygun especially) creep upwards when firing, so the range has you aim at the head (the "bottom" of the target), so that your burst doesn't wind up shooting the roof. Shooting the roof at a range is considered to be bad form. We checked into Motel 6 and headed over to MB to hang out and wait for the fights.
We saw on our tickets that cameras weren't allowed in and MB had a sign up also saying no cameras, but they weren't even pretending to enforce the rule, so we both took our cameras in. My pictures at the fights didn't turn out so hot, so I'm not posting them. MB's arena for the fights was about the size of a hockey arena (12K seats?) and our seats were up in the corner, first row of the 2nd section. There were plenty of big screens around showing the fight, too, so it was easy to watch what was going on. The fights were all very good and Cuco and I had a blast.
There was a distinct lack of fights in the crowd, compared to the King of the Cage that I went to with Steve/Ron/Tom last summer. I suppose the $75 tickets and the distance from LA keep the hoods away. We had a very late dinner at Hard Rock and crashed after that so we could get up early and beat traffic home (and be back in time for the Super Bowl). And I only dropped about $1 in the slots, didn't win anything, obviously. That was the only gambling we did.
The trip back to SD was a bit of an adventure. We were coming through the mountains when Cuco asked where we were and I told him "Victorville." When I said that I looked waaayyy off in the distance and saw some serious storm clouds. We got into it just outside of Victorville, with good hard rain and a spell where were in the CLOUDS. Visibility was down to less than 50 ft, and I was doing 35mph thru the mess. There's no place to turn off the freeway around there, so you have to keep on truckin. Got back to SD at 12:30, in time to grab a nap, head to Subway to get the 3ft party sub and off to Steve's house for the SB party. It was mellow, only about 6 of us there, which was the right speed for all of us this weekend.
We saw on our tickets that cameras weren't allowed in and MB had a sign up also saying no cameras, but they weren't even pretending to enforce the rule, so we both took our cameras in. My pictures at the fights didn't turn out so hot, so I'm not posting them. MB's arena for the fights was about the size of a hockey arena (12K seats?) and our seats were up in the corner, first row of the 2nd section. There were plenty of big screens around showing the fight, too, so it was easy to watch what was going on. The fights were all very good and Cuco and I had a blast.
There was a distinct lack of fights in the crowd, compared to the King of the Cage that I went to with Steve/Ron/Tom last summer. I suppose the $75 tickets and the distance from LA keep the hoods away. We had a very late dinner at Hard Rock and crashed after that so we could get up early and beat traffic home (and be back in time for the Super Bowl). And I only dropped about $1 in the slots, didn't win anything, obviously. That was the only gambling we did.
The trip back to SD was a bit of an adventure. We were coming through the mountains when Cuco asked where we were and I told him "Victorville." When I said that I looked waaayyy off in the distance and saw some serious storm clouds. We got into it just outside of Victorville, with good hard rain and a spell where were in the CLOUDS. Visibility was down to less than 50 ft, and I was doing 35mph thru the mess. There's no place to turn off the freeway around there, so you have to keep on truckin. Got back to SD at 12:30, in time to grab a nap, head to Subway to get the 3ft party sub and off to Steve's house for the SB party. It was mellow, only about 6 of us there, which was the right speed for all of us this weekend.
posted by Andy in San Diego and Elsewhere at 2/07/2005 01:37:00 PM
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