Saturday 2 April, 2005
Good start
Fantastic start for the trip. The flight was easy, and we picked up a car on the airport. I had been slightly afraid of driving in Los Angeles, but it turned out to be ok - we also got the Hertz NeverLost GPS system in our car and I don't think I'll ever rent without it again.
It was a surprise though to notice that it took us almost two hours from the airport to our hotel downtown - by that time it was dark and we barely had time to check in before we were off again to see our first booked event, Pro Wrestling Guerilla's All Star Weekend's first show. We had booked the tickets beforehand, and were quite happy that this allowed us to skip the very long queue that was waiting for us - we got pretty good seats on the second row behind three English guys.
What can I say? $25 for ring side seats to a four hour event containing some of the hottest indy stars in America, we sure did get a hell of a deal. If I have to complain about something I would say that four hours was actually too long, it was difficult to stay focused and exited for that long - I would have dropped some of the six man tag team matches (as much as I loved some of the wrestlers). My favourite matches were Jonny Storm vs. Petey Williams, American Dragon vs. James Gibson (that's Jamie Noble for you WWE fans) and the main event El Generico vs. Kevin Steen vs. Super Dragon.
We also got to meet Jonny Storm and Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels - the former I've met before but I don't think he remembered us (fair enough), he was however a huge flirt and wanted to hug me all the time... which was all good, I love to hug him too. Christopher Daniels was also very nice - much more impressive in flesh than on telly, his charisma just doesn't seem to stick on film. He was very friendly and signed autographs for us, even if Chu was a bit flustered.
And just about when we walking back to our car, we got stopped by two guys from WWE who had been in the event too watching the wrestling, and got talking. One of them was working as a security guard next to the ring and offered to help us a bit to meet some of the WWE superstars we had planned to see on Saturday. Which was a really nice gesture as at this point it was way past one am and we had planned to wake up around six to get to the Brett Hart signing on time.
When we got to the hotel we found out that they didn't have a 24h room service - I was so tired I just went straight to bed, but Chu and Dragon went out looking for food and didn't get to bed until after two am.
Posted by kolibri at 2 April 01:31, 2005What a night!
One of the best ones in my life.
Oh yeah, that good ;).
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