UFC 102 And My Partner In Crime PART 2

What up, what up... I'm back! Let me apologize in advance Tanya if I leave anything out, but I'm afraid a good part of Friday's a bit of a blurr to me even before we started drinking. I'm going to give it my best shot though... here we go!

It's Friday and I'm up early, I try to stay in bed for as long as I could so as not to wake Tanya, but I get a couple of calls and that's all I need. I'm up the first call comes from my brother I hadn't heard from him since my first night in Vegas. He asked me about my job and I lost it (having major issues), I went out on the balcony mistakenly thinking I could go off without disturbing Tanya but I'd only succeeded in waking her and our neighbors above... SORRY! Anyways the good thing that came out of that was Tanya finally got her butt up, we went over our plans for the day got dressed and headed out.

Now here's where it gets interesting I only remember bits and pieces of Friday or at least thats how its coming back to me, so if it reads a bit fragmented... thats because that's how it feels to me. So we're in the lobby heading towards the main entrance/exit to leave when low and behold here comes Bader I think ( third time I've seen him since I've arrived). Next comes W. Silva, can you believe it and my batteries are dead! I can't take any DAMN pictures. Don't you worry to much for us, we used Tanya's camera phone, by the way girl, you suck at taking pictures, either you cut the top of someone's head off or the picture was to far away................ I'm just saying. Now if your wondering why I wrote "here comes Bader I think" its because I honestly can't remember if we seen Silva or Bader first... hell I can't even remember if this was actually the time we ran into them.

We continue on outside to wait for a taxi. While we're waiting brother number three calls to get an update. Fighters and trainers are coming and going while we wait I'm on the cell name dropping. Tanya who was standing at least 10ft from me calls out "Tiki... there's Anderson Silva". I look over and sure nuff, there he stood or walked rather. I think I waved I'm not sure, but he walks over to me and gives me a kiss and a hug, in that order. I played it off and continued to say "uh huh... mmm hmm" to my brother until I was sure Silva had entered the building. Then I mouthed to Tanya that Silva just kissed me, then I nearly screamed to my brother ANDERSON SILVA just walked up to me and kissed me!

Ten minutes later our taxi let's us loose downtown. We're on a mission, find Tanya a dress, eat and make it back in time enough for the weigh-ins, oh... and don't forget the damn batteries! If God's feeling especially generous he'll allow me (I mean us) to run into Georges St-Pierre as well. You didn't think I forgot about him did ya? So we found Tanya a cute dress and decide to grab batteries next. We're at some store like Rite Aide, we head to the back and run into Anderson Silva and his entourage. This is the third time we've seen them today, the second was just in passing as we were looking for Tanya's dress. I open my mouth to say something and Ed Soares beats me to the punch "are you guys following us?" "What?" I nearly screamed "I feel like you guys are stalking us. Everywhere we turn, look who turns up?" We all laugh except Tanya, she doesn't care for Ed to much, I get the feeling she thinks he's an ass.LOL! He's very sarcastic but not in a bully sort of way, I think that's why I find him funny. Anyways we chop it up a little longer before they leave. Later I find the batteries and we head out. A couple of stores down we stop to see if there's some cute shoes for Tanya, while she's trying them on I get a call from yet another brother. We talk about my trip and A. Silva and he basically tells me to "stop acting like a groupie and stop sending him pictures unless its of some random girl getting freaky." I hang up on him, he's such a hater! Found some shoes, it's time to go!

Finally we're at the weigh-ins, we manage to get the best seats in the house, main section up front just behind the reporters. Thanks to Tanya's Fightclub membership we had the choice to get our seats right away or stand in line to see Nate Quarry. No offense to Nate, but we were pretty tired of standing in line, we chose to get our seats. Before the weigh-ins Dan Henderson did the Q&A. He was really great, talked a little slow, not intellectually of course, just slow, like he took his time when he answered. Very laid back and funny, you get the impression he takes everything in stride. Next came the weigh-ins and I see the guy that got his pedicure with me. It turns out the big blond's name is Todd Duffee. Everyone makes weight and I have to say both Randy and Nog have looked better physically than I've seen either in awhile. I'm thinking this is going to be an amazing fight.

K... we're back at the hotel we get dress and head out for dinner and drinks. Back downtown baby and here's where I have a nice chunk of time missing. Clearly I got my drink on because I really don't remember to much of this night except that it was Tanya who was tipsy while I was pushing drunk. I do remember that the last club we were in played some Motown, the DJ was a damn BEAST! We stayed until they cut the lights on.

Back at the hotel I'm seriously buzzed but neither one of us was ready to go back to our room. We chop it up with the same guys we seen on the way out, they were still posted in the same spot. We take pictures with Faber and Joe Rogan before my batteries die again. OMG!!!!!! I remember now... this was when we actually ran into W.Silva and Bader. Yeah I remember now we had just came back from the club. Oops... this is why you shouldn't mix your drinks boys and girls ;-)




I'm sure there was much more but as I said this was the night I got my drink on and I just don't remember that much of Friday. I hope you enjoyed reading this as I did writing it, part 3 will soon be coming your way. Oh... and please check back for the pictues they should soon be up.