A few rum and cokes for me and a few Newcastle’s for the bruthah later, we were good and ready for the banquet. We headed back to the room; I was in need of a sock changing and a rest for a second. Got caught on the toilet in the room by the fam and talked till I dropped, but what I dropped will remain forever sewagized, and we made it to the Star Trek Klingon part of the experience as the shineys were getting off of it. We dug it with both hands and a shovel and got off to the Mrs. Shiney and a gut wrenching time. She had got motion sickness as it was a quite twitchy little ride. We moved to the banquet, where surly wait staff refused my need for a fork, but there was bitchin groovy EQer’s that gave up their forks and seats at their tables for us. I was the only one to eat, as the stomach issues of the shineys and the fullness of the bruthah respectively made it a moot point for them to want to eat. But since I carry with me a need for food and a bottomless pit for a stomach, I was all for it. The food was better this year then last year, but the lack of forks and my inability to eat my salad with a spoon, in conjunction with the staffs’ inability to find me a fork or even their willingness to bother to help me, put a slightly less then favorable slant on the whole endeavor.
The stomach of Sistah Shiney was still in turbulence so we all moved over to a little ice cream shop in the Hilton. I actually hung out a bit longer at the banquet, but as they began the public hazing aspects of it, I moved over to ice cream time.
Now of all the poultices and salves and remedies, nothing cures and upset stomach like a chocolate ice cream. As in evidence whence I arrived at the joint. They all were slurpin’ and lickin’ and having a general ice cream feeding frenzy of epic proportions. There had been a wedding reception near the banquet, so I watched the cute little eye candies making their way hither and yon. There were the inevitable weird drunken arguments, the bizarre dress and clothing, all the things that make a wedding unusual and eclectic.
