I won a trip to Los Angles to join a special screening of the TV show The Sons of Anarchy. A reward for being a devoted fan of the show and the Creator Kurt Sutter. The rip was for myself + 1. Well, my wife couldn’t come with me for some personal reasons. the most important being our 2 youngest children have special needs.
the week leading up the to trip was unbelievably twisted, noting really wanted to go right. things came up missing, forgotten or out right passed over. by Thursday night I had finally gotten everything rounded up. I over packed a bit so despite killing my back I refused to give in to the extortion of checking bags. I should have packed less or been more specific as to what I really needed to have.
The flight from Little Rock was short to say the least. less than an hour. I semi-napped. All totaled for the week leading up to Friday's departure I accumulated about 20 hours of sleep. Between my 2 boys having a bad stomach virus, my back pain, abdominal pain (ulcers & possible gall bladder) I was exhausted. I wasn’t about to miss this trip if I could help it.
My father had minor Heart surgery Thursday before the day to leave on the trip. I had also been playing it by ear as to whether I was going to be able to go on the trip at all. surgery went great my dad while not in great shape should still have a speedy recovery. I didn’t dare go to the hospital because even though I didn’t catch the stomach virus I didn’t want to risk giving it to my dad or my mom or anyone else really.
Despite several mishaps which I was able to overcome, thankfully I had a pretty good time.
Everyone was so nice that despite the pain I had to endure I couldn’t help but smile back and actually be polite, well I hope I was polite at least a little.
The Hotel we stayed at was the intercontinental on avenue of the stars in Century City. Amazing, If I every win the lottery, I’m going to be living in a place like that. Everything is literally at your fingertips. the food was incredible.
My wife couldn’t come with me on the trip as I stated previously. I could very well have gone alone and enjoyed myself to no end. I also thought that was selfish, in a way. Of all the crazy devoted fans of The Sons of Anarchy, there had to be one that I felt comfortable enough asking to go with me. It wasn’t too difficult to decide to ask another fan if they wanted to go, so long as the folks at Fox were amenable to possibly flying someone from another state to join the group.
I was quite impressed that it worked out so well. I chose @meadowgirl on twitter. We’ve been tweeting Sons of Anarchy since the beginning. It wasn’t easy convincing my wife to let me take not only someone neither of us had met but another woman to boot. While there were some minor difficulties to correct everything worked out fairly well. I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to ask @meadowgirl to attend another event. I don’t know if she would be willing to say the same, lol my wife was really ticked because the room arrangements got screwed up. @meadowgirl was pretty much of the same mind as me, we can work with it until the front desk can get things straightened out.
Thank god The hotel had a seriously high-powered hot tub. My back needed after the flight and all the walking I did. I don’t remember falling asleep but I sure didn’t want to get up Saturday morning. MY sister and Bro-in-law came up and we hung out for a couple of hours. Unfortunately I missed meeting @AprilMac. I lost the vid cam that Fox had us carry around to video our stay in L.A.. I got it back but lost over 4 hours of vid time.
I think I’ll hit this again tomorrow, It got kind of long
left to right: Myself Kurt Sutter and Myra Lowe
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