Hotel Pfoesl Bolzano

... and bought bed linens etc. The hotel provides one sheet, one towel and a couple of things that may or may not be dish rags, so I went and got my own sheets and a new pillow cause the one provided was a little suspect. Upim is a little bit expensive though.

Back home, when we go out we arrive at the bar or wherever at around ten or eleven. People here don't even leave their houses until one or two in the morning, and then stay out til the sun comes up! Crazy! I can't imagine ...

... off of them. Looking at all the hills around, this might be a great city to go hiking in! On another trip I will have to try and spend a couple of days here, for it looks to be a very busy and interesting place to visit!

I am not sure what it is with me and trains on this trip! I was in a nice room with a couple of guys, who got off at one of the many stops and then who comes in??? The Austrian police with some guy they are dealing ...

... t lead us to a championship. I have to separate myself. The guys on this team have waited too long and finished short too many times. We have to go all the way.

Additionally my parents are coming out June 20th and will be here for the Super Bowl, and it would be a shame if the Giants weren’t playing in it. Also I don’t fly home until July 15th , and I doubt I’d still be receiving pay checks if we aren’t in the SB. So I was ...

... a shower, I threw on a button up and gelled my hair to look the part of a sophisticated horse handicapping connoisseur. Any allure and charm the gel and shirt had though, fell to pieces once Wood and I climbed into the Giant’s Jalopy and we rattled our way to the track parked and went in. At the gate they were passing out newspapers, and Wood made them flip it to the article on the Giants game against Ancona, and pointed out my picture. It would have been ...

... touchdown.

 

The second quarter came and our offense took over.  Number 28 again abused our secondaryand got into the endzone to make it 21-7. But we shredded Ancona's defense and got down to the 25.  I boot legged right looking for Piva ona comeback when I heard Mario screaming from the middle of the field.  He was running wide open; the freesafety had jumped up on the run fake and vacated his responsibility in themiddle of the field.  I came offPiva and dumped the ...

Whew! The last three days have left us breathless and a little sore from hiking. When we first arrived here it was ******* with rain and there were no nountains to be seen. The weather channel said there would be rain storms and possibly flooding. Given the chance that we would probably not be returning to this area we had to at least give it a chance. Trying to find a place to sleep when tourist information is closed and the rain ...

... for at 6pm. They just go get food and then sit in the locker room and wait for 5hours.  I feel bad for them, sowhen Tisma said everyone come back at 10am, I asked him if we could bump itback to 11am or noon.  He quicklysaid no, insinuating that I didn't want to get up.  I explained that it was not me, but for the guys at thehotel, and he responded by saying, "it's not my problem."  That upset me and some of the otherguys a bit.  Tisma pays on time,but outside of that he doesn't go ...

... places when I think about it.  Even in SoCal, there were plenty of quiet times where you must learn to relish the present, rather than look forward or backward wistfully.  I believe that the quiet times in life are some of the hardest and most telling about where we are personally, because we must face ourselves with no distractions.  When life is fast, the party is live, and things are good, it's easier to overlook discontent, loneliness, and unhappiness.  That being said ...

... came to notify us that we were playing on a private court but we could keep playing this time. People and their power trips. Tied at 19-19 in the critical game six, Andrea would eventually make a critical unforced error to give me the game 21-19 and U-S-A chants erupted from the court. On the way back home I bought a celebratory gelato. I went with a tiramisu scoop and what turned out to be a scoop of peanut butter and chocolate or at least something ...

... Andrea on a 10 yard out, his first Serie A catch. We came back out in the third quarter, got the ball and managed a quick three and out. We got the ball right back and went on a 10 minute drive the killed the 3rd quarter. With Bob and I running the ball and minimal passing attempts we ate up time but not yards. Finally we punted. I was frustrated because things were so chaotic and Valencia's defense didn't adjust when we spread them out. They just kept ...