Cup Report 2010
Posted: Wed 5th Jan 2011 08:30 am
OK I suck at this kind of thing ............ But I will try anyways
I apologize for taking so long but ....... I been busy
I apologize for no pics but ......... I suck ......... I even took a camera I just never carried it ...... Cause I suck
I guess we could start the story of waiting for the plane ...... We got to the airport TOO early SO we had a bunch of time to waste
Everyone went their own separate ways (The group was Me,Nad Boy,John and Ken) the only cool one out of the 4 of us is Ken.
The other 3 of us are dickheads
We are waiting at the airport time to get on the plane ..... and NO Ken ........ They are closing the doors of the plane
I go to the flight attendant and tell her "He is right outside somewhere" I am doing the math in my head of how us 3 are gunna cover his rent ???
He does finally show up saying "Oh Man I had my headphones going and didn't notice" remember he is the cool one.
We made the rest of the trip OK ........ Got to our boat checked in OK ....... the place rocks per usual ...... GREAT to see Kees again we all get our own keys
RAN Over to the greenhouse by Waterloplein ........ < Its close to the boat
Gram of SSH 12.50 < Not too bad
Gram of Lemon Haze 12.50 < Just OK
My notes suck and the info gets worse as it goes .......
Back to the boat ....... to skin up a couple cones
We kick on some tunes
And our "Neighbor" .......... (the boat is cut in 2 apartments (1 bed room and 2 bedroom)
Comes over to complain @ how loud we are being ............ HUH ????? Its about 12:00 time to rock
I didnt see her Ken went to the door ....... She was just asking us to turn the music down ........... When Ken came back he said to me
"She reminds me of your sister" OH SHIT ! ! ! ! ! Are you kidding me ?????
We find out she is a Opera singer doing shows at the Opera house by Waterloplein ....... I told Ken didnt you ask for some free tix ??? Or backstage passes ???
So he (I think) went over there to ask her for tix she said she would see what she could do ...... (Later she offered us tix for 10E I almost went but got scared and backed out) ..... < I dont know if my tie dye's would fit well in the Opera house
OK Off to the Power zone to pick up our passes ............ We got LOST like Hell ....... trying to find it a few days before the cup .....
No one was there ......... we went ALL over the McDonalds area looking for the Power Zone ..... FINALLY we found some guys coming from it
We got there (It wasnt open yet so they had Pre-registration in a tent outside)
We got our passes ........... and I told the other 3 "OK Dumbasses we all got our passes and boat keys I will see you all on the plane in 10 days" ...... Ken freaked out ..... So we are going to take the tram back into town John and Nad Boy got passes good for a week and me and Ken got a one hour pass ......
Our passes were expired when we got back to the tram and the machine for passes was broke ........ SO me and Ken had to use Nad and Johns pass to get on the train .......... Once we got back to Waterloplein I had to ask a guy if we can get OUT of the system on his pass ..... cause we are stoopid Americans
Off to Basjoes
It was nice to see James ..........
SO I asked James "Can I see the Terminator" ?
He says "No mon no Terminator" ...... "I dont have the Terminator"
I said something like ...... "Thats a drag" he says "you like the Terminator" ?
I said hell yeah ......... Hold on mon ...... So he "found" some busted me off some and said "No charge mon"
"JAMES you Fuckin RULE" ! ! ! ! I will also take a gram of G-13 < 12E ...... me likey the G-13
SO Off to Albert Hein
Fully baked
I dropped 2 jars of mayonnaise that were BARELY sitting on a shelf ........ It was only 1/2 my being stoned fault
then at check out my carton of raspberries breaks open and falls all over the place where you bag groceries ..........
I wanna get the hell out of here ........... Before I break something else .........
After dropping off groceries we went to the Hells Angels shop over the years I have become friends with Nunu (Hells Angels Amsterdam chapter President) we always trade stuff ...... shirts/CD's/Etc ...... he is a very nice guy
I am not a biker or anything ..... and I have to be careful where I wear my "Amsterdam Big Red Machine" colors in my neighborhood ..... or I could get killed
<Not Kidding>
Off to Rembrandt House Restaurant for my ....... fav. house sandwich ...... met freits < SP ? my speelin sux
We got to see St. Christopher come down the canal with a bunch of Zwarte Petes ...... < It was awesome ! ! ! !
Across the street to the Bluebird for some evening vaporizer bags
We picked up some sativa ice 25E < Just OK
The other guys (John and Nad boy) went to Katsu got
Black Widow 20E < Pretty nice
Lavender 20E < Not so good
and H2o ??? Something 20E < Dont remember ??
We all ran down to Green place
Blueberry Cheese 12E < It was pretty nice .... might be the best so far ?
we spent 134E on day one
When we got back to the boat Ken (my brother in law) finds a BAG OF WEED he brought from HOME ........ WTF ?????
Are you kidding me ????????/ it was in his pajama pants pocket .......... who in the hell smuggles shitty weed INTO Amsterdam from Amerika ???
And he is the cool one ?
My notes are a total mess ...... and I think parts of that was from day 2 ??
We probably slept all day 2 morning ???
I know that night we went to Browerj het Ij < My fav. windmill bar
Nad boy was being a dumbass american smokin weed all over the place in the bar .......... he acts like a 2 year old often times
Then off to De Kuil Probably for some vape bags
Barneys for free stuff (T shirts and shit like that .....) They gave away a GREAT scope for looking at trichromes <SP ?
Then to Barneys Bar .......... uuuummm too crowded
We stopped at a Dutch bar on our way home Nad Boy freaked out and ran away .... I dont know what happened to him that night ??? But he was gone .... I think he fell down the steps when he got back to the boat ?
Burger Bar mmmmmmmmmm
Then to Basjoes ........ we met up with Lovetick/USBL/Freewheelin Franklin and Ohme sweet Ohme < I had met him before ...... but I got too waisted too fast
I got to try "The Spoon" and lived to talk about it ........ I was having a great time till we got kicked out cause they were late for closing
Off to the "Slanty bar" < I can never remember the real name but its across the straat from Rembrandt Hause ....... I have spent a LOT of afternoon/evening/nights in that place ........... always cool
I stopped at Overkant coffeeshop that day (Its real close to the boat) and got
Buddha Sister 11E < It was OK
and a black hash called Explosion < 15E < It might have been the best deal of the week ...... it was nice
At Bluebird we got Parvati <SP ? Creme 15.50E < Just OK
At Barneys we got some cup entry Tangerine Dream < 11.50 < Not impressed
Ar Basjoes we got the OG Kush 12E < It was nice
62E on day two .......... I think ?
OK my notes are getting MUCH worse ! ! ! . I took 2 books one to write sample reviews and one to jot down stories
They are not lining up
SO I will go from notebook one for a while then notebook 2 at times
Next day Day 3 ?
We went to
Barneys,Greenhouse,Dampkring,Resin,Greenplace,NES,Russland Our Fav. Chinese 4 meat sampler 10E
and we closed the night at Basjoes
We got from Greenhouse
Super Lemon Haze -Gratis
Ice and import samples 4X10 = 40E
We went to Barneys and got the 3 cup samples = Gratis
Tangerine Dream < Just OK
Tangerine Ice < A lot better
And some import hash it was OK
From Dampkring we got some
Lemon shitweed 12E < Not impressed ..... and I like some of their gear
From Resin we got whatever the entry was 12E
Green place whatever the entry was 12E
Rusland Amnesia haze 12E < Sucked
88E for the day
The next day gets weird ......... no way huh ?
3 of us are going to go to the Power Zone ...... Nad boy freaked out again and ran away ....... Oh well he is a big boy
We do the power zone thing ....... its OK buncha vapor bags ....... terrible bar ..... everything was warm ..... met some cool people there
Took the shuttle bus back to Central station
Grey area for
Casey Jones << Not so good
with some hash deal 20X2= 40E
Off to my FAVORITE ! ! ! Restaurant "Eat at Jo's" on Marnixstraat ....... they were closed
so off to a pancake house by Leidsplein
We hit the Melkweg for the party it was lame ....... some scratching star ....... and their rhymes were "illin"
It was cool to see the ice skaters at Rembrandtplein and Leidesplein ........ I havent been there in the off season in a lot of years ..... I forgot how it was
It made me miss the summer ..... I love that city in the summer
OK so .........
Now we get home and Nad boy (I told you he was a dumbass)
Spent the whole day running to as many shops as he could that were in the cup
Buy the sample
and run to the next shop
He has NO IDEA where the weed was from (If it wasnt labeled) how much it was ....... or even what shops he went to ....... cause he was too stoned
he just starts dumping bags of weed and hash on the table
He thinks he went to
Betty Boop,Anyday,HGF,Amnesia,Grey area,Softland,De Tweedie,Dolphin,Happy Feelings,EZ Times,Bulldog (<What tha fuck ?)Noon and Mellow Yellow < Both the same thing I think entered ?? and he bought weed and hash at all those places ........ but he had NO IDEA what any of them were ??? Some of it had SEEDS in it ... I would like to know who that was
SO ...... doing some math we figured
171E for the day
SO I prettymuch quit taking weed notes on that day
We had a TON to smoke and only so many days (First time EVER we left some behind)
I really wish I knew what we were smokin
I caught a NASTY cold ...... and one day took a bubblebath with some bubblebath from sensi seeds ..... my wife and I did that last summer its a good hemp bubblebath
Off to Basjoes till closing again ......... then off to the slanty bar I had never been upstairs but its even more slanty up there ...... its a great building ... I have a big photo of it in my dining room
Maybe the next day ?
Voted at the Power Zone ....... I voted for White Dolphin cause I hate the 2 big companies
Off to Rembrandtplein Burger Bar
Wanted to stop at super club I kind of know someone that used to work there ..... they were closed
then to a small bar in the middle of no where called "The Music Box" < DONT Ever go ........ thats where the scary hookers work
Then to close the night at Hunters
I was going to go to Gapies birthday but I slept in
Back at Leidesplein I ate a 1 meeter bratwurst that they were selling at a stand ........ Old Dutch guy there was way drunk commenting on the bratwurst "Fuckin Germans are geniuses" "Inventing a sausage like this" < I guess you had to be there ???
The closing ceremonies was stoopid I cant remember who won ?? one of the two .... then I think the other guy won ......
I know that lady from polinator that was given one of the greenhouses cup ..... shes cool
455E in the first 4 days then we bought a lot less and quit taking notes ...... we kept (tried to) all our empty bags and I think we had about 75
Finally did get to eat at "Eat at Joes" If you ever get the chance Eric and MaryJo are a real cool couple that run the place
After the cup was over ...... we went back to the Melkweg to see a band called "New Cool Collective" they are a Dutch Big Horn band ..... high energy
I loved em
We had great (considering) weather ........ little to no rain ....... it was cold at times (snowed once)
and we all made it home in one piece
Thanks for reading
I apologize for taking so long but ....... I been busy
I apologize for no pics but ......... I suck ......... I even took a camera I just never carried it ...... Cause I suck
I guess we could start the story of waiting for the plane ...... We got to the airport TOO early SO we had a bunch of time to waste
Everyone went their own separate ways (The group was Me,Nad Boy,John and Ken) the only cool one out of the 4 of us is Ken.
The other 3 of us are dickheads
We are waiting at the airport time to get on the plane ..... and NO Ken ........ They are closing the doors of the plane
I go to the flight attendant and tell her "He is right outside somewhere" I am doing the math in my head of how us 3 are gunna cover his rent ???
He does finally show up saying "Oh Man I had my headphones going and didn't notice" remember he is the cool one.
We made the rest of the trip OK ........ Got to our boat checked in OK ....... the place rocks per usual ...... GREAT to see Kees again we all get our own keys
RAN Over to the greenhouse by Waterloplein ........ < Its close to the boat
Gram of SSH 12.50 < Not too bad
Gram of Lemon Haze 12.50 < Just OK
My notes suck and the info gets worse as it goes .......
Back to the boat ....... to skin up a couple cones
We kick on some tunes
And our "Neighbor" .......... (the boat is cut in 2 apartments (1 bed room and 2 bedroom)
Comes over to complain @ how loud we are being ............ HUH ????? Its about 12:00 time to rock
I didnt see her Ken went to the door ....... She was just asking us to turn the music down ........... When Ken came back he said to me
"She reminds me of your sister" OH SHIT ! ! ! ! ! Are you kidding me ?????
We find out she is a Opera singer doing shows at the Opera house by Waterloplein ....... I told Ken didnt you ask for some free tix ??? Or backstage passes ???
So he (I think) went over there to ask her for tix she said she would see what she could do ...... (Later she offered us tix for 10E I almost went but got scared and backed out) ..... < I dont know if my tie dye's would fit well in the Opera house
OK Off to the Power zone to pick up our passes ............ We got LOST like Hell ....... trying to find it a few days before the cup .....
No one was there ......... we went ALL over the McDonalds area looking for the Power Zone ..... FINALLY we found some guys coming from it
We got there (It wasnt open yet so they had Pre-registration in a tent outside)
We got our passes ........... and I told the other 3 "OK Dumbasses we all got our passes and boat keys I will see you all on the plane in 10 days" ...... Ken freaked out ..... So we are going to take the tram back into town John and Nad Boy got passes good for a week and me and Ken got a one hour pass ......
Our passes were expired when we got back to the tram and the machine for passes was broke ........ SO me and Ken had to use Nad and Johns pass to get on the train .......... Once we got back to Waterloplein I had to ask a guy if we can get OUT of the system on his pass ..... cause we are stoopid Americans
Off to Basjoes
It was nice to see James ..........
SO I asked James "Can I see the Terminator" ?
He says "No mon no Terminator" ...... "I dont have the Terminator"
I said something like ...... "Thats a drag" he says "you like the Terminator" ?
I said hell yeah ......... Hold on mon ...... So he "found" some busted me off some and said "No charge mon"
"JAMES you Fuckin RULE" ! ! ! ! I will also take a gram of G-13 < 12E ...... me likey the G-13
SO Off to Albert Hein
Fully baked
I dropped 2 jars of mayonnaise that were BARELY sitting on a shelf ........ It was only 1/2 my being stoned fault
then at check out my carton of raspberries breaks open and falls all over the place where you bag groceries ..........
I wanna get the hell out of here ........... Before I break something else .........
After dropping off groceries we went to the Hells Angels shop over the years I have become friends with Nunu (Hells Angels Amsterdam chapter President) we always trade stuff ...... shirts/CD's/Etc ...... he is a very nice guy
I am not a biker or anything ..... and I have to be careful where I wear my "Amsterdam Big Red Machine" colors in my neighborhood ..... or I could get killed
<Not Kidding>
Off to Rembrandt House Restaurant for my ....... fav. house sandwich ...... met freits < SP ? my speelin sux
We got to see St. Christopher come down the canal with a bunch of Zwarte Petes ...... < It was awesome ! ! ! !
Across the street to the Bluebird for some evening vaporizer bags
We picked up some sativa ice 25E < Just OK
The other guys (John and Nad boy) went to Katsu got
Black Widow 20E < Pretty nice
Lavender 20E < Not so good
and H2o ??? Something 20E < Dont remember ??
We all ran down to Green place
Blueberry Cheese 12E < It was pretty nice .... might be the best so far ?
we spent 134E on day one
When we got back to the boat Ken (my brother in law) finds a BAG OF WEED he brought from HOME ........ WTF ?????
Are you kidding me ????????/ it was in his pajama pants pocket .......... who in the hell smuggles shitty weed INTO Amsterdam from Amerika ???
And he is the cool one ?
My notes are a total mess ...... and I think parts of that was from day 2 ??
We probably slept all day 2 morning ???
I know that night we went to Browerj het Ij < My fav. windmill bar
Nad boy was being a dumbass american smokin weed all over the place in the bar .......... he acts like a 2 year old often times
Then off to De Kuil Probably for some vape bags
Barneys for free stuff (T shirts and shit like that .....) They gave away a GREAT scope for looking at trichromes <SP ?
Then to Barneys Bar .......... uuuummm too crowded
We stopped at a Dutch bar on our way home Nad Boy freaked out and ran away .... I dont know what happened to him that night ??? But he was gone .... I think he fell down the steps when he got back to the boat ?
Burger Bar mmmmmmmmmm
Then to Basjoes ........ we met up with Lovetick/USBL/Freewheelin Franklin and Ohme sweet Ohme < I had met him before ...... but I got too waisted too fast
I got to try "The Spoon" and lived to talk about it ........ I was having a great time till we got kicked out cause they were late for closing
Off to the "Slanty bar" < I can never remember the real name but its across the straat from Rembrandt Hause ....... I have spent a LOT of afternoon/evening/nights in that place ........... always cool
I stopped at Overkant coffeeshop that day (Its real close to the boat) and got
Buddha Sister 11E < It was OK
and a black hash called Explosion < 15E < It might have been the best deal of the week ...... it was nice
At Bluebird we got Parvati <SP ? Creme 15.50E < Just OK
At Barneys we got some cup entry Tangerine Dream < 11.50 < Not impressed
Ar Basjoes we got the OG Kush 12E < It was nice
62E on day two .......... I think ?
OK my notes are getting MUCH worse ! ! ! . I took 2 books one to write sample reviews and one to jot down stories
They are not lining up
SO I will go from notebook one for a while then notebook 2 at times
Next day Day 3 ?
We went to
Barneys,Greenhouse,Dampkring,Resin,Greenplace,NES,Russland Our Fav. Chinese 4 meat sampler 10E
and we closed the night at Basjoes
We got from Greenhouse
Super Lemon Haze -Gratis
Ice and import samples 4X10 = 40E
We went to Barneys and got the 3 cup samples = Gratis
Tangerine Dream < Just OK
Tangerine Ice < A lot better
And some import hash it was OK
From Dampkring we got some
Lemon shitweed 12E < Not impressed ..... and I like some of their gear
From Resin we got whatever the entry was 12E
Green place whatever the entry was 12E
Rusland Amnesia haze 12E < Sucked
88E for the day
The next day gets weird ......... no way huh ?
3 of us are going to go to the Power Zone ...... Nad boy freaked out again and ran away ....... Oh well he is a big boy
We do the power zone thing ....... its OK buncha vapor bags ....... terrible bar ..... everything was warm ..... met some cool people there
Took the shuttle bus back to Central station
Grey area for
Casey Jones << Not so good
with some hash deal 20X2= 40E
Off to my FAVORITE ! ! ! Restaurant "Eat at Jo's" on Marnixstraat ....... they were closed
so off to a pancake house by Leidsplein
We hit the Melkweg for the party it was lame ....... some scratching star ....... and their rhymes were "illin"
It was cool to see the ice skaters at Rembrandtplein and Leidesplein ........ I havent been there in the off season in a lot of years ..... I forgot how it was
It made me miss the summer ..... I love that city in the summer
OK so .........
Now we get home and Nad boy (I told you he was a dumbass)
Spent the whole day running to as many shops as he could that were in the cup
Buy the sample
and run to the next shop
He has NO IDEA where the weed was from (If it wasnt labeled) how much it was ....... or even what shops he went to ....... cause he was too stoned
he just starts dumping bags of weed and hash on the table
He thinks he went to
Betty Boop,Anyday,HGF,Amnesia,Grey area,Softland,De Tweedie,Dolphin,Happy Feelings,EZ Times,Bulldog (<What tha fuck ?)Noon and Mellow Yellow < Both the same thing I think entered ?? and he bought weed and hash at all those places ........ but he had NO IDEA what any of them were ??? Some of it had SEEDS in it ... I would like to know who that was
SO ...... doing some math we figured
171E for the day
SO I prettymuch quit taking weed notes on that day
We had a TON to smoke and only so many days (First time EVER we left some behind)
I really wish I knew what we were smokin
I caught a NASTY cold ...... and one day took a bubblebath with some bubblebath from sensi seeds ..... my wife and I did that last summer its a good hemp bubblebath
Off to Basjoes till closing again ......... then off to the slanty bar I had never been upstairs but its even more slanty up there ...... its a great building ... I have a big photo of it in my dining room
Maybe the next day ?
Voted at the Power Zone ....... I voted for White Dolphin cause I hate the 2 big companies
Off to Rembrandtplein Burger Bar
Wanted to stop at super club I kind of know someone that used to work there ..... they were closed
then to a small bar in the middle of no where called "The Music Box" < DONT Ever go ........ thats where the scary hookers work
Then to close the night at Hunters
I was going to go to Gapies birthday but I slept in
Back at Leidesplein I ate a 1 meeter bratwurst that they were selling at a stand ........ Old Dutch guy there was way drunk commenting on the bratwurst "Fuckin Germans are geniuses" "Inventing a sausage like this" < I guess you had to be there ???
The closing ceremonies was stoopid I cant remember who won ?? one of the two .... then I think the other guy won ......
I know that lady from polinator that was given one of the greenhouses cup ..... shes cool
455E in the first 4 days then we bought a lot less and quit taking notes ...... we kept (tried to) all our empty bags and I think we had about 75
Finally did get to eat at "Eat at Joes" If you ever get the chance Eric and MaryJo are a real cool couple that run the place
After the cup was over ...... we went back to the Melkweg to see a band called "New Cool Collective" they are a Dutch Big Horn band ..... high energy
I loved em
We had great (considering) weather ........ little to no rain ....... it was cold at times (snowed once)
and we all made it home in one piece
Thanks for reading
Then I remembered that in Schipol I forgot to remove my belt and set off the metal detector; so there I was arms out to the side to be "wanded" all the while clutching my jacket in my left hand with the weed in it.