Five guys scattered around an apartment, with the after math of a big night of drinking and random bouts of wrestling. I was asleep on the floor along with Paul’s friend David, Paul and David Purdie were both in the bed, Paolo and Justin were in the living room on the sofa’s. Slowly one by one we woke up, everything went into the dishwasher and we begrudgingly got ready to go outside, we were all hungry for any nutrition. Today was a big American football day between Oklahoma State University (home) and Tulsa (away). So the campus was awash with people and drowned in orange. We had our minds set on pizza; on campus there was a pizza place that was voted Oklahoma’s best pizza! As prestigious as that title may appear as it strikes the mind, it had a lot to live up to, after all we had driven through Oklahoma and it wouldn’t be far off to say on the box that it was ‘one of Oklahoma’s few pizza’s’ let alone one of the best, I doubted the requisite to be considered Oklahoma’s best, but I took Purdies better judgement and he recommended it. We all made our way over, Paolo, David, Justin and I walked our way through campus and Paul and David Purdie moved their cars to park. They got their first and we had to queue for around 30minutes which was just accentuating the crave for some food of any form. At this point really we would be happy have anything. The queue was a good sign for the quality but it was also game day and their seemed to be queues for everything.
We ordered two pizza’s between the 6 of us and I must say that it topped the pizza’s we had in New York by far, save Spummoni’s in Brooklyn which was incredible and it didn’t have anything on the Atlanta Pie in the Sky pizza either, but still the ‘country pizza’ was up their. So Kudos to Oklahoma’s pizza’s!
Everybody seemed to be full after 2 slices, which was kind of embarrassing for Paolo and me as we had been working on our appetites for quite a few weeks now and considering we downed a 30” pizza between us, we had to hold ourselves from finishing it off.
Once again I will bore you with my complaints of the heat! It was hot! The temperature today was 105F, I don’t know what that is in real temperature, but it’s hot! And mostly just direct blazing sun and with little to no breeze. We walked around campus to meet a random selection of David Pudies friends; we saw an epic amount of Tailgating! People had managed to lay claim to every open patch of ground and set up some form of BBQ or drinking station in it, all donned in bright orange! And hardly any of these groups were the actual students, mostly it was families and older people, those living in the local vicinity follow the college games here, in majority. To gauge it for you, the stadium seats 75,000 people, the student population is around 25,000 and the population of Stillwater is around 20,000 which means if every single person went it would fill just over half of the stadium, yet every game the tickets sell out! What a following for a college team!
We were not going to the game as the tickets were around $100 a head so that would have meant $600 for the group of us, Paul and his friend David decided instead to go home early instead of staying for the Saturday as something had come up at work and they had to return back.
So instead of dealing with the heat we decided that we needed some rest and recovery ready another night of revel.
Paul had brought up his brothers TV with him and it needed a few cables to have it picture ready so we dropped by Best buy and headed back to his to set it up.
Later on that evening after watching ‘My Best Friends Girl’ on the new TV set up, David’s friend Tony turned up, what a lad! He was just one of those people you feel would add to any social situation. We all got ready and started to drink while we waited for David to finish getting ready, another one of his friends Wendy turned up and added a female element to the so far mostly male interaction we have had thus far in Oklahoma, so it didn’t go amiss.
We got to mine and David’s mutual friends house Tiffany, we had met in Korea at New Years and hit it right off and the previous time we had met, we partied into 2010, so how apt that I was now partying at hers also in 2010!
House party, in America, in Oklahoma, in Stillwater, who would have thought! We got straight into it, jello shots and flip cup was the first call on the house and we evolved through all the standard protocols of these American house parties, Tony and David introduced us to everybody at the party as their English friends, which we were I guess. While there I also ran into my brothers best friend Sam Tindal whom I had met last year, also in Korea.
At the end of the night we made our way to the local drunk food haunt, it’s a place called shortcakes, its open 24 hours a day, and its infamous in Stillwater for serving up generous plates of home cooked foods. Oh also because its been closed down 3 times for food hygiene reasons, and I ponder who let it reopen. There were more bugs (including cockroaches just blatantly on the floor) inside than outside! I don’t know if any sober people ever eat here.
Another brilliant night in the USA!
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