Travelin Monkey

Typing in every country in Europe is hard because each has a different keyboard setup so i have to fish for letters… and some of them get stuck too..

We made it to France, Strausburg. This is a neat little town that borders Germany. None of us wanted to be in the car 10 hours towards the French Riviera and decided to stop here. Last night we found a cafe that had people watching the game and cheered for Spain. Everything looked good until france came up 3 tors (that is what they call goals here). From there the streets of this small town erupted in singing?and dancing. People stood in a small alley and?we started to shake cars, cheer, and semi-riot. No cops were in sight so we went and found a turkish place to buy bier from. Sayat started to speak in turkish so they gave us a good price..

We spent the rest of the night partying. This one camera guy started to film us? We had no idea why and Sayat was wearing a dodgers?jersey. Koko started to jump up and down, next thing you know, a whole bunch of Frenchies are doing it with us and we are charging towards the camera?man.. hehe This was the first time we made it on tv!

Right now we are waiting for everyone to get dressed so?we can make it down to the French Riviera, after that we are going to Milan to watch Italia play.

where to start…

We got to Leipzig.. and got up for the world cup games.. we ended up in the fifa fan viewing center where we started to drink bier at like 10 am. sandro and sayat decided to leave because they didn’t want to stand around and watch the game, prefering the comfort of a pub, leaving kok and myself there for the Ger vs Sweden game. I had to take a made deuce (shaista), but there were 300 germans waiting in line to go pee at the only porta-potty in the entire place. I tried cutting in line, but that didn’t work out too well and I got booted out. I told kok, “man I have to go or else I will explode,” and we somehow managed to get my ass in the bathroom and he blocked the door, yelling shaista, while I took the quickest deuce of my life. The germans started to bang on the door and yell… then they all cheered when i got out.. the game was unbelievable.. when they scored a goal seeing he germans cheer was ridiculous.

After the game we were set to meet at the train station.. the Germans started to party here also and we joined in on the fun until it was time to go to our game. The match was awesome, very emotional. There were 40,000 mexicans and 3,000 argentineans.. and we were all scared for our safety.. hehe.. we tried everything to get on tv, but no go..

After the game we went to the car, changed and got our stuff at around 1 am and headed to party.. we were out until 6 am, that is when i found out i passed WREBs. We found this mexican girl that drank too much and passed out on the side of the road, unconcious and her friend going crazy. We stabilized her and i started to take vitals and inducing vomiting, her friend called the cops and I got her to vomit… but she also peed all over herself hehe..

From there we hopped on a train to praha (prague).. The first day was mostly sleeping and uneventful. We walked around at night and stuff. The second day we went to watch the games at the pubs and did a city tour, when we randomely bumped into Edward’s ex-girlfriend. We had a blast drinking with her and she showed us around Prague. We left to sleep and woke up today at 6 am to take the train back to prague.

Now we are on our way to France to watch the game and cheer for Spain in France proper..

After a 10 hour flight and a 6 hour search for Sayat in the Frankfurt airport, I went ahead and rented a car by myself. Koko & Sandro weren’t set to get in until 3 pm, Sayat was supposed to get in at 8 am, and me at 9 am. I spent until 1 pm looking for him, then decided to head out on my own in Frankfurt to exchange our tickets, to get tickets under our names. What should have been a 11 km and 5 min ride ended up being a 1 hour ordeal and a 45 km ride. Streets don’t run normally here.

I went back to the airport and found kok & sandro. we looked for sayat for an hour more, then decided to head out and see if he might have missed his flight. He landed at 3 pm, the ass!! Got too drunk and missed his morning flight! So, we hopped in the car with the GPS system named Tom Tom and headed towards Leipzig. Except, we all forgot it was a friday, and after sitting in a plane for 11 hours, standing around in the airport for 6 more, I found myself driving 3 knocked out asses in bumper to bumper traffic for 5 hours towards Leipzig. THE AUTOBON.. I hit 180 kmh with 3 fatasses and all our luggage, and STILL there were cars lapsing me! CRAZY!! (thats like 110 mph guys)..

We made it into leipzig at around 5 pm and started to look for a hotel. This city is like all the other german cities and we doubt we will spend any more time than we need to here. Germany is very open and green, lots of trees, and hardly any buildings.. except when you reach a city and suddenly you have buildings!! There isnt JACK to do anywhere in Leipzig, and the few mexicans and argentineans that are here ATTEMPT to party, but the entire god damn place is closed! We ended up finding a room, thank god, at 10 pm. They wanted $104 euro for the room, 2 people max. So, kok & I registered and found a staircase that opened to the road and snuck sayat & sandro in. We FINALLY had something to eat at MIDNIGHT.. these people didn’t want to eat until we had a place to sleep. That was the BEST meal of my life.. turkish food, good and cheap.

This place is expensive as all hell and we have no where to sleep tonight. Everything is booked, so we are thinking about staying up all night and training it to prague and spending a couple of days there. They dont allow our car in Czech republic and we don’t want to pay the ridiculous euro charge to take it. BTW, no one speaks that well of english, none of us brought a dictionary, Due Hast meinsh doesn’t get you too far.. and thank god for Tom Tom, or else we would have been SCREWED! We also decided to strictly speak armenian to these people, since they hardly understand english or spanish.. at least that way we instill fear!!

After months of planning, we are finally going to do it. Four years ago Sayat and I found ourselves at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas watching Fra vs Uru, about to begin our post-grad education. I looked over and said “Why don’t we celebrate our graduations with style? Let’s go to Deutchland 2006!” And so began the turn of events that led to 4 tickets to Arg vs Mex June 24 and a trip through Europe 2006!!