Tuesday, June 29, 2010

June 27





I cant stress enough how fast time flies here. I feel like I just wrote a blog and that was 10 days ago. Insane. I think I haven’t written in a while bc I have been working most of the time and my last weekend was shot due to an alcohol training program (hiliarious ‘80s video of people acting wasted so you know when to cut them off, mandatory) and a double on my “Monday” back, so my leisure time has been pretty limited the past 10 days. The good news… the GREAT news is that the weather has changed and it seems permanent. It has been 70s and sunny for about a week straight. Paradise. Shorts, tees, flip flops, windows down, all that. Im on a patio right now soakin up some rays (scorching my face) and typing this. Since I last posted, we have found time to sneak in a few things… We hiked up a hill off a trail to get a good look at Grand Prismatic. Since it has warmed up, the steam over the pool can be better described as vapor, so we knew we could get a good look at the pool, pics above. We got back to the trail and hiked about 5 miles to get a look at Fairy Falls, pic above. I cant tell you how much better everything is now bc the weather has turned. I don’t want to say its better with all these people here, but it is impressive to see everything in full swing. The Inn is a madhouse. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. Dripping with people. The restaurant is pretty steady, sometimes slammed, but for the most part we have all adjusted to the increased volume. There is more car traffic here now than most major cities at rush hour. You don’t really notice til there is something (bison) blocking the road, or even just near the road, and you wait forever to get through behind 24687234698753986735496873 cars. There are purple and yellow flowers everywhere now, almost as common as buffalo turds. Almost.

 

The talk for this ‘weekend’ right now is Glacier National Park in northern Montana. Its only 7.5 hrs away which might sound like a lot, but we can get there in a day after work and still have daylight to work with. The weather is still pretty chilly there, so maybe we will do that trip in August or so. I havent been feeling the greatest the past few days, so I think I will just stay local and hit a few hikes. Win Win. 

Thursday, June 24, 2010

June 16: Josh, Rachel, and my Bozeman



Today I showed Rachel and Josh around Yellowstone. They are friends of Johnny G’s gal Andrea and are moving up to Seattle and had a half day to spare in the park. We met up around 930am in Mammoth and the weather was pretty rotten at first. The rain came around 900am or so and it was brutal. Dark clouds as if it were nighttime, huge rain drops and lots of them. 10-15 seconds in it and you were soaked all the way through. Then, the signature of Yellowstone….. the weather changed before you could say “Huckleberry ice cream.” Has anyone ever had huckleberry ice cream?? Its sooooo good. We sell huckleberry everything up this way, its local so they exploit the shit out of it. A small bag of huckleberry yogurt covered pretzels is $8. You might get 12 pretzels. I mean, Im sure theyre good, but cmon. $8?? Huckleberry ice cream is unreal though. Worth every penny. Speaking of ice cream being worth every penny, I was talking to Nas, she is from Singapore and a server assistant in OF Inn. She was telling me that Ben & Jerrys Ice Cream is a major delicacy in Singapore. It costs like $15 - $20 a pint. She said she went to walmart and saw it for the prices we US citizens are used to and freaked out. Back to June 16… The rain stopped within 10 minutes and it was sunny. I thought the weather changed in STL?? It is so ridiculous here. The forecast literally means nothing. At Old Faithful it could be snowing sideways, and at Mammoth (50 miles away) or even Lake (25 – 30 miles away), it could be 75 and sunny, happens all the time. Between the differences in elevation and the size of the park, you really have no idea how its gonna be when you go for a drive. I think the geo thermal activity has to have something to do with it. Probably not, but it sounds interesting. So they hopped in my car and I took them directly to Canyon. When we got there it was 65 and sunny. Perfect. We walked around artists lookout, took some pictures, and even got lucky seeing a bull elk leaving the area. We set out for lake area, saw a grizzly on the way, but it was through the trees, still, count it. We stopped and took in some great views of the lake and the surrounding mountains. After that we took the road back to OF stopping at the Continental Divide and Keplar Cascades for photo opps. We pulled up at OF and hurried in to see when it was going off next. 30 minutes. Perfect. Plenty of time to get a good seat on the mezzanine of OFI with a cup of coffee to take it in. My friend Lucy from the UK who is a server in the restaurant and her boyfriend who happens to be from Missouri visiting her for a few days were on the mezzanine to watch OF as well, so we all sat on a bench getting to know each other until it went off. During this time, the weather changed again on us. It cooled off about 15 degrees and was threatening rain. It really worked out bc the pics Rachel took show OF going off with dark rain clouds behind it. I had never seen that and I think its one of my favorite looks of OF. As the geyser was winding down, we decided to beat the crowd to the restaurant in OFI to get a bite to eat. We took our time bc it started raining and eating at the Inn is pretty cool. I basically forced them to try this huckleberry ice cream, boom goes the dynamite. The next stop was grand prismatic spring. Grand prismatic is the spring you think of when you think of Yellowstone, a big blue pool with green and yellow/orange around the outer rim. Its huge. The down side of grand prismatic when the temperature is as cold as it is now is the amount of thick steam. So much steam that you cant get a very good look at the colors or the spring as a whole. The up side is that the warm steam is plentiful, when it comes off the pool it hovers onto the walkways and keeps you warm, until the wind changes. It feels so good when you are in the steam. It doesn’t smell like sulphur there either. It was funny walking up to GP, everyones hair walking the other way was soaked from the steam. We walked around for a little bit, realized what time it was, and got back on the road. It was getting pretty late in the afternoon, so we cancelled all other stops and went straight back to Mammoth. From there we followed each other north to the town of Livingston Montana where we parted ways, myself to Bozeman and Rachel and Josh onto Glacier National Park for the night.

 

That night in Bozeman Johnny, Robbie, Garrett and myself went to a house of a restaurant called Dave’s Sushi. Don’t let the name fool you, it was right on. The place was small and off the beaten path, you would have to ask someone where to get great sushi in Bozeman, which is exactly what Johnny did when he arrived that day. Warm sake, great rolls, lots of laughs… it sucked. From there we went to main st to the wine bar and then the zebra lounge. The wine bar is so awesome. Zebra lounge was a basement of a place with good music and everybody dancing. It was fun, but by the time I got there I was so pooped out from running around all day, I just sat and relaxed with Johnny all night. Other OFI employees were in Bozeman that night and we all met up at the Zebra Lounge. 2 girls who are servers at the Inn who are friends who came here together from NC, a server named Josh from NY, and a guy named Christian but I don’t really know him that well. People watching is awesome in MT. So many different kinds of people. This one girl kept getting hit on and asked to dance, and every guy who danced with her would spin her all over the dance floor, dip her, try to be fancy in a graphic tee. Needless to say, the music playing was not conducive to such moves. So if one guy did it, I would have written it off. But Im talking like 4 or 5 guys. It was just bizarre. Some cowboys and cowgirls showed up, some thuggish ruggish, Zebra Lounge draws quite a diverse group. Montana, you continue to amaze me. After Zebra Lounge, I was done. I went back to the room and crashed. Hard. 

Thursday, June 17, 2010

June 15: Purple Mountain





Today is my Friday and the weather ended up great again. Robbie and I decided to go for a hike called Purple Mountain. Its 6 miles roundtrip, and quite a climb. You end up 1200 ft higher than you start and you start around 7800 ft., so you end up around 22000 ft up. Its simple math. We drove the 15 miles from Old Faithful to the trail head which is just north of Madison Junction. The first ¾ mile – 1 mile of the trail starts pretty harmless, then you really start to climb. Lots of switchbacks, steep inclines, faded trails, it was great. We got to the top in about an hour and 15 mins. It was super windy up there. We both brought windbreakers/rain jackets, so glad we did that. Gear makes all the difference. We were able to hang out up there for about 45 minutes. The views were vast and impressive. You can see the Tetons in one of the pics and they are over 60 miles away. We started using a compass to locate other areas in the park. The roads are so windy here that you get turned around pretty easy. Im starting to believe that the direction guide in my car is lying to me, and that it also exaggerates the temperature from time to time. Lola, check yourself. I have noticed that my stretch in my sexy stretch pose has gone lame. Its like Im almost being serious when I pose like that. I will remedy this. Once we had enough time at the top aka noticed bad weather coming from the west, we decided to hustle down the mountain. We ran roughly a mile of the top portion of the mountain. I was surprised that neither of us were winded. I don’t think elevation had anything to do with it, probably that all the running was very downhill. After the hike we went to West Yellowstone to catch the end of the NBA finals. The drive back was quite a struggle. Thank God I was just riding along. I slept very well.

June 14: Elephant Back Hike





Working while the weather is nice here is some kind of torture. We even swung the windows open in the restaurant it was so nice out today. One of the best days yet. 70s, sunny all day (so rare), breeze, perfect for anything outside. And guess who had a breakfast – lunch double… This guy (2 thumbs pointed at myself). I couldn’t let it hold me down though. Robbie and I both had a double. We decided we had to go for at least a short hike after, you just have to take advantage of this kind of weather. We decided to go over to the Lake area for a hike. We checked one of the hand outs from orientation listing different hikes in that area and decided on one called Elephant Back. It described a 1.5 - 2 mile ascent to an amazing view of the lake and the mountains in the distance. Sold. We drove the 40 minutes around the way and started the hike around 6pm. Its so great that it doesn’t get dark til almost 10pm. The weather was a little chillier bc we were higher in elevation, maybe 60 or so, but still great weather. The pics look great I think, especially my signature stretch, but they do it absolutely no justice. I took a quick little video of the panorama from the top, hopefully it gives you a better scope. There were hippies up there doing cool hippie shit like drawing and wearing hoodies that said “Yellowstoner” on the back, probably picked that guy up at the Old Faithful gift shop. The hike took a couple hours, lots of unreal terrain and views, of course no bears. No anything really, a few chipmunks and squirrels, but no big game. After the hike, we decided to drive around the Lake area and we found some really scenic back roads. If I ever come back here to work or vacation, Lake is the spot. We stopped at a really neat bend in the road running right next to the water, I tried to get the super sexy stretch pose on top of my car, but as you can see that attempt failed miserably, the stretch pic didn’t go as planned, the only one worth seeing it just looks like Im fixing something on the luggage rack, so lets just go with that. We drove back through a long and colorful sunset watching the mountains in the distance change from hues of orange and purple as the sun kept falling. Its funny how a long day at work can be forgotten so quickly with a solid dose of nature and good people. Great day.

 

Tomorrow is my Friday, another Bozeman “weekend" is planned, only this time with Johnny and Robbie, and maybe Manfred. Manfred is from Singapore, really cool guy who works in the kitchen with Johnny. As far as the jobs go, the bottom line is that the job doesn’t matter. The pics above are why Im here. But since I know my mom wants to know and I don’t get to talk Ruth or anyone as much as I would like, here’s a quick update. The Food and Beverage director approached me today about a somewhat management position, an inventory manager for old faithful called a “store keeper.” Every job here has a cute little euphemism. Im not sure if they looked at my work history in STL or what, but it was flattering the way she was talking to me, I mean I bus tables (todem pole location = low) and shes talking about some type of management? I came out here to read, run, relax, and explore and not think twice about work, maybe not even think once. That position doesn’t sound conducive to any of my “goals”. She also said another option was splitting time between serving in the restaurant (starting serving next week for sure) and working in the warehouse. I told her I wanted door number 2, but she told me to think about it, so I guess she wants me to take the Store Keeper position opening in a couple weeks. That just sounds like a lot of stress and not as much fun as telling a table of older women in the restaurant last night that “Mike and I appreciate the compliment,” after they said “We haven’t seen anything ugly since we’ve been here.” Mike is a big lean guy from New York with a booming voice and a big smile, always popular with the ladies. He is a server in the restaurant and does better financially waiting tables than most of us salary desk jockeys. Mike and I were both at their table, so much fun. Serving is gonna be stressful at times, but so much fun, not all the time, but moments like that will happen often enough and meeting people from all over the world will both make it worth while, and I will have a couple days in the warehouse to stay out of the bees nest that is the restaurant. That’s the plan anyway…

 

June 13: Happy Bday Big Man!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Big MAN DonoVAN!!!!! Uncle Ka is thinking of you and your parents, grand parents, and the entire fam a lot!!! Stay frosty little man!!!

June 10: Bears are small





If you cant tell, I am sick of not seeing any bears. Johnny had the genius idea of going to the wolf and bear exhibit in West Yellowstone. They have a small but informative museum area, and out back is where they keep the real deal….. live bears and wolves. I felt like I was cheating a little by going, but its been almost a month and a half, Im overdue. Its usually $10, but bc we work for the park it was free. Bawlyoo. I wasn’t all that interested in the wolves until I got there, but they are really neat. There were about 10 wolves, 5 in 2 separate exhibits. They fed them right when we arrived. This place is neat bc they only take wolves and bears that wouldn’t survive anyway, meaning their mother, pack were killed or were abandoned very young. They would not have survived without this place. The bear exhibit only has 2 bears out at a time, 7 total, and we just happened to be there when they had the 2 biggest grizzlies out, and it was feeding time. They were brother and sister, their mother had been killed. The workers hide their food under rocks, very big rocks, corners of the exhibit, all over really, so you get to watch seek it out. The female was 750 lbs and the male was 980 lbs. When I read that, I thought these bears were gonna be enormous. Johnny was talking about how huge they were when they came out, and I was saying I didn’t think they looked that big. I mean, they were big, but 980 lbs? I pictured the beast of a bear in National Lampoon’s Vacation with John Candy. This 980 lb bear came out and I was like, “I would slap him around.” Then after they ate, they started to “play.” They were kicking the shit out of each other, and this is when I really noticed their size. They stand up, slap each other in the face (really hard), you get a good look at the claws, and get a glimpse of how easily your head could fit in their mouth when they are biting each other. I couldn’t imagine dealing with any of that. As far as the wolves go, I was very impressed. They had a great video going about wolves showing wolves hunting/stalking elk in Yellowstone. I think I would be more afraid of a pack of wolves than a bear after seeing that. They are impressive. I kept looking at the wolves in the exhibit, then back to the video over and over, almost in disbelief. I was thinking they look so harmless in person, but then you see them separate a herd elk and chase down one elk that stands out to them over miles of all kinds of terrain. Bears just swipe fish and raid trash cans and aren’t very good at either. Wolves are the real deal. I mean, I knew what they were all about before I got there, but its different when you see them in person. I guess you appreciate them more. Don’t get me wrong, I still love me a bear, just surprised that their size wasn’t more intimidating. However, the female moved a near boulder size rock bc she thought there was food under it. And she did it with ease. She looked over after she did it and all I could think was “no thank you ma’am.” I want no part of that. 

They also had a stuffed polar bear who had the most funny and stupid looking facial expression, had to get that. 

Thursday, June 10, 2010

June 9: Teton This!





So yesterday was nice, 55 - 65 and sunny when we got outside in the morning, and Johnny and I are both off until Saturday night, so we decided to go down to Grand Teton National Park and go for a hike. We heard there was a great 8-10 mile hike called Hermitage Point. The trail is supposed to be along the lake with the Tetons in background the whole time. BY. We drove south through Yellowstone and part of Grand Teton NP, nothing is frozen over anymore. Still some snow up in elevation, but all the lakes are thawed out. The drive down there is really pretty because you drive by Yellowstone Lake, through high elevations, waterfalls, canyons, and that’s all before you leave Yellowstone. We stopped at the first stop in Teton which is Flagg Ranch and got directions to the hike we wanted, and the ranger also gave us a list of other great hikes in Teton. We will probably just throw that away. We drove the 24 miles to Cortal Bay through basically a forest with intermittent mountain views. We found the trailhead, made sure we had everything, and set out. The hike was just how it was described, near the water the whole time with the Tetons right there. It was unreal. We had some pretty weird weather which made for some great pics. It would be sunny, then light drizzle, then clouds that turned everything blue, it was great. The hike is basically a loop from Cortal Bay to Hermitage Point, which is where the land ends on that side of the water, and then you loop back by Swan lake returning to Cortal Bay. The hike started so great, it was like an old country road running along side the water that takes you back into the woods. I was surprised to see how much grass there was back in the forest. Everything was so green. Even though you couldn’t see the Tetons at that point, it was still amazing. Lots of pine trees too, needless to say the smell was euphoric pine trees, clean mountain air, some fresh horse shit here and there, mmmmmmmmmm. It has been raining a lot, so we had to dodge a few big puddles on the trail, but for the most part it was pretty easy going. Every so often you would come to a clearing and there would be the Tetons. I can only put up 4 pics, so if you want to see more, you can go to my facebook and look under the Yellowstone album or under Johnny's which is linked on my page under Yellostohno!!!!! album. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547979919.

 

There were really only 2 things I would have changed about the day, well, really only 1. We came to a clearing, it was sunny and we were about half way done, so we decided to go to the edge of the cliff and sit and eat overlooking the water and the Tetons. I sat on a root of a tree. SAP. Not Spanish translation for your TV, I mean tree sap, all over my pants (ass). It smelled wonderful, but dammit anyway. The other thing I might change was the rain that came down the last 2 miles of the hike. I don’t think I would change it bc it was kind of nice to see everything in that weather too, especially bc we prepared for rain so it was no big deal. Obviously I would have liked to see it sunny and 80 all day, but it was great the way it was. 

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

June 8: Bears Suck





In Gardiner MT right now, I have the next 3 days off. I worked a triple, not a double, a triple yesterday, all 3 meals. About 15 hrs on the clock, but it got me 3 days off in a row, and today is GORGEOUS. Pics above of the drive to Gardiner, the last one of my view of where I am typing right now. Drove through bear country again. Zero bears. Im actually starting to get pissed. It was funny, now its just stupid. 

Just got a text from Robbie and he let me know that one of the managers at the restaurant told him that I got the warehouse job. But he just told me I was gonna be a server? Organization = minor detail. Oh well, its a win win for KPo. 

If the weather stays like this, I will have some hiking and camping pics in a few days. Johnny and I are probably gonna at least go for a long hike if not camp as well over the next couple days. 

On the way up here, I stopped by the Mammoth location and got something to eat in their hotel restaurant and talked to a few of the employees there. They all swore that this place will turn to heaven in 3 weeks max as far as weather goes. Right on Mammoth. I can dig it. There is evidence to support this, on the way up here I noticed flowers that werent there a couple weeks ago...... Beeeeeeeeeeewyahl. I wanna wear shorts and get some sunburns already. 

I dont think I mentioned this, but Bozeman MT, every thursday in July and August, blocks off main st. for live music and street drinking. Sounds boring. No fun there. Maybe stop by the whitewater rafting spot on the way. Probably not. That wouldnt be any fun. Splash some whitewater then listen to local musicians and drink microbrews in perfect weather in the mountains?..... Pass. I am soooo pumped for more weather like this. It opens up so many more possibilities like that....

June 6



Wow. What happened to the last 4 or 5 days? Time goes by at least twice as fast here. I thought today was seriously Friday and its Sunday. In the past few days I have been to West Yellowstone with Johnny to watch Game 1 of the NBA finals, found out I am going to be a server at the restaurant, worked a bit, ran, and watched it absolutely pour down rain for almost 5 days straight. The one day it wasn’t pouring I went out for a run and it started sleeting (sleet sleet) almost right away. It has rained so much that there was a mudslide somewhere in the park. That somewhere happened to be where the service tower is located. No internet, no cell phones, no landlines. Dear engineers who put that tower there…. Stop drinking on the job….. It was fixed the same night, but people were freaking out for a few hours.

 

I did have another great, “that’s what she said” moment that I had to pass on…. I was running food the other night for all the servers. I delivered a chimichanga to a table of six along with the rest of their food. I remember only the chimichanga bc of the comment. I presented said chimi to a lady. The gentleman next to her said, “That would be perfect for me, but the meat would fill me up.” I think I even made the jaw dropping ‘holy shit’ face at him. Jokes on him, the chimi is a vegetarian dish. Zing.

 

Last night I met a family from Town & Country MO. They came into the restaurant while I was working. 3 kids. Hilarious. The whole family was great. They were there later in the evening as it was slowing down so I got to talk to them for a while. They filled me in on the latest Cards shtuff. They were so pumped that they got to see a bear and 4 cubs. I would be too. A grand total of 7 bears in 1 day they came across. W T F ? I have seen 1 bear this whole time and Im not sure I should even count it, it was so far away. At this point I would settle for a guy in a bearsuit (beeeeeeeeaaaarsuit) walking around smoking a cig. I am gonna bathe in honey, carry a summer sausage in each hand wearing a T shirt that says “edible” and just start marching north.

 

C Walker update: He pooped his pants while working in the kitchen at OFI, so he requested, and was granted, a transfer to the Canyon location, I assume playing the embarrassment card. I don’t know the full story, but Johnny works in the kitchen, so Im sure the full scoop will get to me eventually. Im actually gonna miss him. He was quite entertaining, especially when he met new people. Entertaining in an uncomfortable, Borat interview, sort of way. I really liked to watch how people reacted to him. For all who know him, this guy is a Tom Pfhuel type. That caliber. If you don’t know Tom Pfhuel, you should be sorry. He would go to parties chewing a toothbrush. He would poop in his own hand to throw it at someone else. True story. Quite a human. As is C Walker, not as nasty as Tom P. but definitely as outrageous. 

Thursday, June 3, 2010

June 1: Really?? June??


Holy shit its June. Robbie and I got up, got breakfast, went to a thrift store and a book store in Bozeman. The book store was so great. I got a book called “Stuff White People Like.” Hilarious. Everyone should read this book. I read a bunch of the things white people like already, I was laughing so hard, but also thinking, “Yes Yes, I do like that.” It was gorgeous in Bozeman. The drive back was rainy and full of drivers who were not aware of the speed limit, got back just in time to run through the shower, shovel some food down and get to work just in time. Thankfully work was slow. I finally got my weekends changed to Wednesdays and Thursdays. Same as Johnny’s, Robbie’s are Tuesday and Wednesdays. Bewyaw. 

May 31: Bozeman Montana Babay!


Today was my Sunday, and Im not working until 5pm on my Monday (which is actually Tuesdays for now) so I decided to get up a little early and drive to Bozeman Montana. I didn’t take many pics. I think it was because the town was so awesome, but in a way that you had to be there, at least, a picture doesn’t explain how perfectly modern yet old time small town it is. The drive up there was so amazing. I really lucked out on weather, the high ended up being 70, sunny almost all day, but it did rain that night. The drive was so great bc it only took about 2 hours and it was mostly through Gallatin National Forest. Needless to say there were lots of trees. There was a river running along the highway for the majority of the drive, saw some people whitewater rafting on that guy. Mental note. It was just amazing. This drive was really how I pictured Montana before I got here. Lots of trees, then ultra green hills leading into snowcapped mountains, green tinted water rushing through unbelievable terrain, cabins here and there, ranches with homemade signs over the entrances, so great. I can honestly say that the best smell I have ever smelled, I mean I literally just couldn’t get enough, came about 30 or 40 miles from Bozeman. It absolutely flooded my car, like when you pass a skunk or something. I had the sunroof and windows down, and I had just exited the valley I had been driving in for a while. I really don’t know how to describe it….. Clean, natural, like fresh cut grass but different, some sort of flower, I think I got high off it. It was just the natural smell of that area I guess. It smelled so phenomenal. I want to bottle that stuff up as cologne and sell it as “Montana”. The adds would be of a bear dressed as a cowboy doing all sorts of cowboy stuff. So Bozeman is awesome. You drive into town and it looks like any modern suburb. Modern yet rustic looking strip malls/office centers, fast food places. But then you get into the old part of town, main st. Neat little shops, restaurants with patios, modern feel with old time charm. Reminds me of Lincoln Park in Chicago a little bit. I had to run some errands (Target for everyday things) and get a hotel room, then I started just walking around main st. I came across a wine bar and posted up there. I ended up having dinner there. Bison tenderloin. B O O Y A H. I was just gonna bar hop by myself then crash, but Robbie called me and said he was gonna come up. It turns out that our friend Chelsea from New Jersey was already in Bozeman visiting her cousin who lives there and our other friend Lucy from the UK was gonna ride up with Robbie. So I just kept eating and drinking at the wine bar waiting for the crew to arrive. They showed up a while later and the 5 of us hung out. It was nice to have someone who lives in Bozeman to show us around. We were at the wine bar for couple drinks then went to a bar called the crystal I think. We were told it was a great people watching spot. They were right. Yikes. Example: I was in the bathroom and a guy came in while I was peeing and said “it sucks getting stabbed in the hand.” This guy was about 6’4 250 lbs of pure tatted meat. I turned around and asked the obvious question “Will you shut the f%#* up bro?” No, not at all, I asked what happened and he said a guy stabbed him in the hand the previous night and it was 'still bleeding'. I asked if he was a bouncer, he said no and didn’t get into much detail about the stabbing, so I used my better judgment and ceased quenching my curiosity. I then informed him that stitches might be a good idea at this point, calling attention to the fact that his blood had not clotted in over 24 hrs. He said he "had thought of that, but the cut was so deep.” So he showed me. It was very deep. I went to zip (button) my fly, he exited. I guess if a cut is that deep, medical attention becomes a bad idea, or at least that was his rationale. He held napkins in the bar the rest of the night, I assume as some sort of bandage/blood sponge. Welcome to Montana. He would wear my cologne. The girls went back to Chelsea’s cousin’s and Robbie and I went back to the hotel and watched funny youtube videos and probably would have annoyed other people in the hotel if anyone was actually staying there. Do me a favor and google or youtube '2 yr old smoking'. So wrong, but this little guy is the coolest looking smoker I have ever seen in my entire life. If you get the right video, the anchorwoman explains the story. Hilarious. Totally wrong, but hilarious.