Really really glad I went to Marbella, whole trip was immense. Will just have to provide the following cliffs of some com moments as don't remember everything, I have a terrible memory
- We rented a car and within 5 mins of hitting the road a few cars started beeping at us as Mitch had went the wrong way round the roundabout, oops. He managed pretty well after that and was a ledge, driving us about without seeming to mind, especially handy when I'd forgot my passport for ID for the casino, cheers mate.
- Did roshambo minority wins for all the rounds which roughly cost 50-60e, out of about 10 flips I somehow found myself hu in 5 of them, luckily I absolutely crush at rock, paper, scissors and win everyone, oioiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Ran pretty golden in flips throughout the trip, lost 1 meal flip for a hundo and lost a drinks flip that was probably the cheapest on the trip for 25e. Still did my bollocks but can come to that later
- Weather on the Thursday wasn't great and was unsure on how nice it would be for the trip but from Friday onwards everyday it was lush which helped morale.
- Pete Linton loves to cook which is pretty rare for a poker player and made some incred burgers which him and Keith cooked on a bbq for everyone, incred. He seemed unimpressed at my lack of interest in his Salad and the fact I don't like brown bread either, haha.
- As mentioned by Alex we had a day where a few of us weren't playing during the day so went and played Tennis. I'm pretty unfit so the heat meant I didn't participate a huge amount but it was a lot of fun. One rofl moment where Me and Deadman where playing doubles vs Giblin and PJ, balls coming at me quite slowly and I move back to get in position, lose my balance and start to stumble down but still try and return the shot, fail massively and in what seemed to be super slow motion I soon find myself on my arse, FAIL.
- After Tennis we headed to Simon's hotel pool joined to the casino. Everyone's messing around with the lads doing wrestling moves on each other, Deadman asks me if I'll lie flat in the pool so he can jump off a ledge and do a Swanton bomb on me, yeah ok mate, haha. He gets Mitch to Suplex him into the pool which Alex videod, was abs hilarious, I'm sure he'll post it up on his diary soon. There was a sign where we were messing about saying no diving, didn't mention nothing about no wrestling moves.
- Few of us went out to watch the football on the Saturday. Mitch loses the 170e meal flip at a nice restaurant down on the port, oioiiiiiiiiii. We head back to an Irish bar that we know has all three games and there's two lasses sitting at the bar when we walk in. One of them starts up a convo with me and it seems like I'm in, gettttttttttttt. She's English but lives in Marbella and tells me she's 21, as the day progresses and more of her mates start to come to the bar that look about 12 I ask her again how old she is.... 15, luckily nowt happened so I faded the register. Only Giblin had any suspicions that she wasn't 21.
- Railing Linton to 2nd was obv sick good, had a really good night out but I don't remember a whole lot of it. Did no wins myself but was really pleased to see others do well. We pretty much crushed it, finalled every event, won 2 as well as Pete's 2nd, congrats to all who do binks but tbh everyone who went on the trip was winning. One thing I do remember of the night, spent 150e to have a conversation with a hooker for 15minutes in a whore house, wpwp me, marv. I was reminded of the end of the night by Beaneh the next day that I got back to the villa at stupid o'clock and was banging on the back door to get in, he comes to let me in to see me with the keys in my hands and asks why I didn't just let myself in, my response was " I can't fukn work it out, just wasted 150e on a prostitute" I threw the keys on the floor and stumbled off to bed.
- As we couldn't tell taxi drivers where to come to we had to walk to the casino which was a 20-25 minute walk, as I never walk at home I ended up with blisters on every corner of my feet which was pretty com.
- On the last night we went to a Karoake bar which was fun inc us all signing Kenny Rodgers, haha. Best bit had to be when Dan asks me if I know Jimmy Nails Big River as he loves the song and wants my help, abs love the song, incred scenes.
The above trip report doesn't come close to doing justice for how good the trip was. So much other hilarious stuff happened that currently doesn't spring to mind, overall it was a fantastic trip which I believe everyone really enjoyed, everyone seemed to get on and I will definitely be in for a repeat visit next year. Everyone's going to be in Vegas at roughly the same time and I may well join them. Kinda want to fade it and keep the money for the travelling fund but I am very tempted, will see how the next six weeks go.
GRINDING TIME!
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