Ok, it's Kris' turn! Kris was the second man in on the Vegas plan (I'm the third). Kris went to the same high school as BAJ and I. Him and BAJ have been homies for a long time. Long before high school even! I didn't get to know Kris all that well until University. Oh brother, here we go... Edward St.

Since this is a public blog, you guys get the PG version. Not to say it won't be interesting, just not complete. So, after high school we all ended up at different universities around Halifax. Some of the guys ended up renting a house downtown. BAJ and Kris were part of that. Along with 3 other guys, mostly from our high school. At some point me and a couple of other friends rented a house not far from Edward St. But the stories always happened at Edward St.

If you've been to university, then you are aware of the typical attitudes of the typical university students. We were no different. The crew at Edward St. were a bright and diverse group of people. People that mostly challenged each other and the energy in that house was created by the unique cross section of personalities involved.

I first got to know Kris better during his time at Edward St. I remember times there when just when it seemed that things were goin to get out of hand, Kris had a way of keeping things within reason. Not that Kris didn't like to party, in fact the opposite! No one knows how to party like Kris! It's just that he was able to walk the fine line between keepin it real and keepin it fun. Anyhow, I won't go into the details of the parties at Edward St., but I remember (mostly) waking up there many a Sat. or Sun. morning and just looking around at the bodies crashed everywhere and thinking, damn that was a good time!

Kris really became a "brother from another mother" after we both landed in Ontario a few years back. I was living in Ottawa and working at Nortel and just when life seemed to be slowing down a little for me, Kris moved to Brockville and we started checking out the club scene in Ottawa,Montreal,Toronto and even landed in Vancouver one weekend. Most of our friends were (and still are) scattered around NA, so it was a small crew, but we had some fun. It was about the time I met Maureen and my boy Jon met his gf. Good times. ;) Again, no details, but we knew how to get into trouble.

Some memorable nights... there was Halloween at Atomic in like '99. Damn that was a good time. Stereo in Montreal a few times were up there. But the trip out to Vancouver to visit BAJ was a really ringer. ;) We had been talking about taking the party to Vancouver for some time and finally pulled the trigger. We flew out for a weekend. First night there we found our way into a dance club with tons of beautiful women!! And they were all pawing at each other like a bunch of cats in heat. We had found nirvana! We didn't even notice the fact that then payed no attention to us. It wasn't until the next day when we found out it was actually a Lesbian bar. So after we left there around 2am, we wandered around downtown for a bit and got talking to some people and got ourselves invited to an afterhours party at a really cool condo type place downtown. It was a pretty big party for a condo, I'd guess about a couple hundred people. A few DJ's, some cool lights and lots more beer! We stayed there until the sun came up.

Then there was WEMF! World Electronic Music Festival. The big ass rave they hold every year in southern Ontario. The first one we went to was the best, but the second one was the one that gave us the Kris story that stuck. We were lost in Peterborough, a caravan of 2 vehicles with a bunch of us looking for the remote site where WEMF2003 was being held (or was it 2002?). Anyway, I didn't think any of us had ever been to Peterborough before, but in classic Kris style, he got er done. ;) Out of the blue, Kris pipes up and starts barking directions, "turn left up there, now right, down that street, pull over." I thought he was totally talking shit, but sure enough we get out of the van right in front of the head shop in downtown peterpatch. In we go for quick directions to the party and we're on our way. Kris is the party GPS!

Well, a couple years ago the party ended when Kris had to move to Georgia for work. We've hooked up a couple times since then, but we've been too busy to really get out for a good party. That leads us to Vegas! Do you get too old for this shit?? I hope to hell not!