Game-Day Shirt.. CHECK! Game-Day Face.. ON!

RED RIVER RIVALRY:

UT vs. OU - as a longhorn fan, you know thats one of the biggest games of the season. I searched and searched trying to find some magical sports bar that for some reason was showing American college football. Then, I found Shoeless Joe's , this American Sports Bar open 24 hours a day. Can't get much better than that right, pretty on target. On game day I was SO pumped, had my game day gear layed out the night before and everything.. haha the big decision was which UT shirt to wear... I drug a couple friends with me to watch the game. I figured if I was lucky it'd be me and 3 other fans watching the game, maybe. We walk in right after kick off and there it was... a sea of burnt orange!!!! My people! Not gonna lie, my eyes gotta a little watery out of pure excitement!

The only downer was that the Wisconsin game started before the UT game- so the entire restaurants surround sound was set on the Wisconsin game until the 4th quarter of the UT game, but it didnt matter. Ah it was such a great day! UT ended up beating OU :)

FUTBOL ARGENTINO:

Argentina wasn't doing too hot in futbol (soccer) and they were in 4th place to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Out of the South American bracket, only the top 4 teams go. They still had one more game against Uruguay and they was only a point behind Argentina. So they had to either beat or tie Uruguay in order to advance. Anddd Argentina won! Maradona cried. And also got new gotti diamond earrings after his other ones were seized by the Italian government to help pay off his debt he still has back from when he played in Napoli. Maradona sucks, well his attitude and macho- joe coolness annoys me. I was glad Argentina qualified because we'll still be down here next year while the World Cup is going on - so it'll be more fun getting to sport my blue and white.

"Arte por Dentro y por Fuera"

Last night we got invited to a social art charity event at the Park Hyatt by our friend Katia who works for the Crear Vale la Pena Charity. Didn't really know much about it except that it was at a nice hotel and it said "cocktail" on the invitation- thats always a plus. We got there and the hotel was so so beautiful! The first guess I see is an overly tan lady wearing a huge furcoat and a diamond necklace... theres so much to be said about that, it's not common to wear diamonds down here so that automatically means its a nicer event and although fur coats may look nice, 600 chinchillas to make one jacket is...

As we walk in, we're greated by a little man in a tuxedo and a silver tray who serves us champagne, we continue going down the stairs into the event and there's painted wine barrels spread out throughout the entire room. Twenty different local artists painted wine barrels and they are being auctioned off for two weeks online through Mercado Libre (Argentina's ebay). This was the kick-off event to start the bidding. The champagne served that night was also from the bodega who donated the wine barrels.

There were servants spread out throughout the event with little appetizers on trays and people refilling your champagne glass when it got low. Of course me and Bryan hadn't eaten dinner yet, so we a picked a very "convenient" spot to stand... kindaaa right outside the kitchen doors-ish, we had first dibs on the different appetizers that came out. haha. But! doing that, we got to see the chef come out and look around. Turns out, he's this famous argentine chef we see all the time on the "El Gourmet" channel (their Food Network). It was so cool! I think it made the food taste better just knowing that. We watched him make Thai food last week.

The event was a lot of fun, the wine barrels were really cool, the food was good, the champagne was great and they even had live music! I think we were among the few actually looking at the wine barrels though, most of the people just came to show their face. And the hotel was so beautiful, $700USD a night to stay in the cheapest room.. yikes. I wanted to take pictures of the event and the barrels and the hotel, but I didn't. This one couple did and a lady actually frowned at them. I took one of me and Bryan right when we got there, but that was it. I found pictures online, so that works too I guess :)

Thennnn I went to class after that which sucked, but it was sports marketing so it wasn't too tough. My teacher brought in a guy from the Miami Dolphins marketing team who kept preaching to the class about how Dan Marino was the best QB ever... uhh Vince Young? helllooo.. haha just kidding. (Rosebowl 2006, anyone?)