World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party

It was this weekend at the Jacksonville Landing here in downtown Jacksonville on the St. John's River. I have never been to Mardi Gras but I'm guessing it is similar to this but we didn't have the nudity. However, there were many, many drunk college girls dressed quite trampy. One girl even had piercing to accentuate are ass cleavage. For those not familiar with it, the Cocktail Party corresponds to the Florida/Georgia football game that is played here every year. It is probably the biggest event of the year for the city. People show up in RVs on Thursday in "RV City" between the stadium and the Landing. I like to refer to it as Redneck City. It's probably something similar to what you would see at the Daytona 500. My friend Dragan and his brother Zoran were in for the weekend and the first thing we did after I finished work on Saturday was to check out this Cocktail Party at the Landing. When we got there it was the end of the third quarter. The place stunk like beer and in our 2 hours we saw one guy ejected by the police, a couple fierce arguments, several girls crying, and lots of flesh. Pretty standard fair for a glorified frat party. It was actually quite cool down there but I don't think many of the patrons notice the cold breeze. We grabbed dinner at one of the restaurants at the landing and then headed out of there for the dog track.

My Grandpa's lessons from many years ago paid off at the track because I won back to back quinellas in races 9 and 10. Dragan and I actually both won in race 10. I won $53 in those two races on two $2 bets and ended up clearing about $30 on the night and had a good time. Yesterday we went out to the beach to check out the ocean. Unfortunately there was a 30 mph wind coming out of the northeast causing it to feel pretty cool along the shore and sand to blow in our faces. However we did get to see a guy out in the heavy surf wind surfing. It looked like fun when he would get about 15 feet in the air when jumping the waves. After that we hit the driving range and headed to Hooters to watch the second half of the Lions v. Bears game. Well, as most of you know that didn't end well for us Lions fans. But at least our waitress was hot. ;o) Then we went to the movies and saw A History of Violence. Not too bad. I'd give it a B.

Today we went down to St. Augustine to check out the World Golf Village and the old city. The weather finally came around as the northeast wind died and the temperature was in the upper 70s. We saw an IMAX movie at the Village and played a round on their 18-hole natural grass miniature golf course. It came down to the last hole but I managed to beat Zoran by one stroke. We ate lunch at the self proclaimed "oldest brewery in America." I don't know about all that, but the turkey sandwich was good. I stopped at an Irish store and saw the Phelan arms shield logo thingy and where we originated in Ireland. According to the map I in the store we come from Waterford, Ireland. After lunch we drove home because the Lazich brothers had to catch a flight and they didn't want to miss it, especially since they missed their first flight on the way down Friday night. Well, back to the grind tomorrow. I hope everyone is doing well.