Well...we're back too & what a year!
The first place to start is with a huge thank you to DfH and everyone for The Wedding (part II) on Thursday night, it was immense! I'm not know for displays of emotion but you nearly had me in tears as you drove us into your pitch. Thank you, thank you and thank you again, you are all fantastic and I'm proud to count you all as friends. The memories will last for ever - hopefully along with the video footage that James took - haven't had chance to look at it but more to follow no doubt! Special thanks of course go to the Gimp
We didn't see much of the DfH party on Friday night, the combination of the weather, having to work (instead of sit in a tent drinking beer) and the over indulgence of Thursday night led to an early night for us. Vinny's Vice were great, hopefully I've got a bit of footage of them - I gather I missed our own band though.
Trevor and Sean from Canada were very welcome newbies, they were fab company and helped out with food etc when Keith and I both had to work, thanks for pitching in guys - sorry about the weather, you really will have to come again to see it all in a better light
Hope you get back to Calgary OK in another week or so.
James and Jordan were also fab, they helped out with pitching and depitching the campsite and were great company - it's been a tough year for the lads but they really added something to our trip, guys your Dad would have been proud of you and I'm really sorry I didn't get to meet him. I think with James, Jordan and Mark's lads we do know that the future of Club Arnage and the LM we all know and love is in safe hands despite the increasing number of "football hooligan" Brits that increasingly populate the place!
Other highspots - the DfH auction, well done to all who put their hands in their pockets and to Marius for losing his pony tail and whichever one of the Liverpool boys gave up his tash! (sorry - too much beer by then!).
The other big positive was the feeling of "coming home" that I get from LM and all of you. We should all be really proud of this place and the camaraderie and spirit that comes out of it, the wish to give something back by giving to charity and looking after those who come as strangers and go home as friends. [smokie mode] I looooveee yoouuuu alllllll [/smokie mode]
Negatives? The big negative that came really close to spoiling the trip for me were the dickheads on MB with the truck. Shan't name them but if you are reading this you really are a bunch of w*nkers. We don't all want to hear your music at full blast at 4am and 5am all week along with revving bike engines. Apparently their power cables got cut a couple of times during the week - I don't normally advocate criminal damage but someone deserves a medal. I went over to them at 3am on the Wednesday morning, they were refusing to turn the music off for security and told me "we're on holiday we can do what the f*** we want"
. Charming folks who were mainly more than old enough to have known better - I can only imagine how their children behave. If you want to blow the LM experience for everyone, keep going the way you are and you'll succeed pretty quickly.
Other negatives - the amount of theft and the ballsiness of it - Mark's lads seem to have done all they could and still got done. A number of the caravans along by us got done on Saturday night/Sunday morning, mainly whilst there was someone either in them or alongside them. Sean seems to have saved us, he was dozing in the gazebo in the dark listening to the cars and the radio on Saturday night when someone wandered in, took one look at him and went off again.
I can't think of much more and I'm trying to pretend that I am capable of working!
