College Game Day: Saturday Night - Sunday Morning

After working at the office Saturday it was finally time to go out somewhere for a nice dinner on Saturday Night. I asked the Controller at the company we’re auditing for recommendations. He gave me 4 that were all in the same general area: Chill Out, Cocanuts, Cais de Quatro and a Chinese Restaurant named Chez Wou.

The area they were in is called Ilya (Island) because it’s this long peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. The first two were the furthest away, so we shot for Cais de Quatro. Funny thing was though none of the phone numbers we had for it worked. We had the kid at the front desk calling and he never could raise them or find a good number though he was trying diligently. His final tactic was really humorous. He told someone on the phone that he is a General and that he wanted Reservations at Cais de Quatro. Apparently that didn’t do any good because it was like the restaurant wasn’t open. As it turned out all 4 of us guys liked Chinese – this is very odd in the Audit world – they like them some meat and taters – but this group all said okay. So Chez Wou it was.

Very easy to get a car and got there within 15 minutes which was very cool. It was a very nice restaurant and we had a great meal and a great time. When we first walked in, you don’t expect to hear someone going “Larry, Mr. Larry…” Lo and behold it was our main contact person (Felipe) where we were auditing – he wasn’t the one that had given me the list of restaurants and had no idea either of us would be there. But that made the evening even better because we were able to pick his brain for menu items to select. After cocktails of course. And those were very good. Two of the guys ordered Jack Daniels and Sprite (sounds vaguely familiar) and the waiter brought out a new bottle of JD. Luckily he didn’t leave it at the table, but his portions were generous as was the Blue Sapphire.

Felipe said to order the spring rolls and Chinese soup (wasn't called that on the menu, but he said they all knew what it was) – it was your basic hot and spicy soup and it was deeeelicious One of his guys said to order the Beef Teppanyaki (Teriyaki) and we did. It was all really good and we were very glad we went, especially since all our dinners had been in the hotel during the week.

Came back to the hotel (remembered to order a car during the middle of the meal), and had a nightcap or two. At this point it’s 10 pm. Checked some afternoon college football scores and promptly went to bed for a nap. Somehow I woke up at 1:05, right about the time the Texas game was going to start. Got online and pulled up the radio coverage and then went to JustinTV to see about actually watching it.

Got a message that the maximum number of viewers from “this region” were already on. Guess all 5 of the Texas alums in Africa were watching. I’m sure any Tech people not in Lubbock were probably in Muleshoe watching on the tube. But, for $10 I could upgrade my watching, and of course I did that. And that worked for the rest of the game, though sometimes the picture would freeze, usually at the beginning of a play. But, the audio would continue, so you knew how the play turned out. It was a nailbiter of a game. Seems like things went Texas’ way in the last 6 minutes which was great. Our team will go as far as our defense takes us and Tech was certainly a good test. Second best result of the day was the USC beatdown. Way to go Huskies. Will see them Oct 24 vs the Ducks. Quack.

Ended up going to bed at 5:30 a.m. I woke up around 10 which was much earlier than I expected but laid there until around 10:30…could hear all the kids playing outside my window down below. As I was getting up there was a knock at the door. Figured it was the cleaning people and I would tell them that I didn’t need any service. Sure enough there are 3 young girls in starched uniforms. Instead of them adhering to my “no, no, no service…” they immediately came in the room – with me still in my drawers. Not the dresser drawers either. Oh, that's right, there's not a dresser.

It was like they were searching for something. They were rifling through my papers, picking up my wallet and looking under it…just looking everywhere for something. Finally the main lady (really they’re young girls) goes away and comes back. She has a “Do Not Disturb” sign and puts it on the front of my door. There had never been one in the room – like a jillion other things that aren’t here – but anyway, they wanted apparently to put one on my door…probably so their Supervisor wouldn’t hold them accountable for not cleaning my room. It was quite the little experience. Especially since I was groggy from just getting up.

So, that’s how you get thru College Football Saturday and especially a 7 pm game on a Saturday Night. Would love to be able to do the same thing for the Cows and the Giants at 7 tonight but this is a School Night and so I’ll just read about it tomorrow.

Adios and Good Night.