08.08.08: Finally, Beijing!!

Geez, finally we can get past Shark Fest 2008! How many 08-08-08 parties do you think are going on? At sports bars...because the Olympics are starting-YES!!! I for one am the instigator of one such gathering. I love that we now have the Olympic games to focus on instead of the usual crime, politics, and pilferage! This meeting of the YA-YA Sisterhood took place at Blazer's Sports Bar on Butternut in Holland, MI. Really fun spot. Like 4 or 5 big screen TV's and a number of smaller ones, outside seating, and Rock Band available to play~Very nice atmosphere. Good drinks. Good service. Good food. Great company. Lots of laughs!! Truthfully, the opening ceremony for this Olympic games really was extraordinary. The different vignettes of 3-D images and choreographed movements, dance, and the writing that was done on the big scroll with the artists feet was soooo cool. In fact, our motto this night was: Something cool is about to happen!(Then we'd all stop yapping and watch for awhile, then go back to yapping!) and So Good! So Good-I gotta YOU! Yo-Yeah-James Brown! I know this all sounds really weird but you just sorta had to be there to get it...it was really funny at the time! We thought we were so CUH-OOL!! We made the astute but somewhat disturbing (yet oddly comforting) discovery that the Sumo wrestler guys have bigger FUPAs than any of us-therefore, we must be in pretty good shape, right? For the longest time we all thought that only women and girls could have FUPAs so we were really surprised about these Sumo guys and their FUPAs. What is a FUPA you ask? Well, it's that flap of fat below your belly button and above the critical southermost girl region...the Fat Upper Pussy Apron. After comparing notes, we all decided that we are pretty well off after all...good news!
Next on the agenda: the chapstick relay




 We compared chapsticks and then smelled each others' chapsticks. Three were coconut/tropical/pina colada, one classic chapstick that smells kinda like the dentist's office, one honey berry chapstick (mine), a wintergreen/spearmint one-but I can't remember whose that was and one other one I can't remember...yikes! That just happened like an hour ago! Well, anyway, then we all challenged each other to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Cigarette.



I took 3 whole puffs without passing out or getting sick...things were a little swirly, however. Rachel was the only one who wasn't naughty-that is, as far as smoking goes...
We decided to dub ourselves the United States Women's Olympic Drinking Team. Can you dig it?? We're gonna go for the gold...Do you think Blazer's will retire our jerseys?

Then I ran into Janessa-Hey, Jude!

Good times! What an eventful evening!! This meeting of the YA-YA Sisterhood now stands adjourned! Let the games begin..