Faro?

2.5 weeks later, I finally get to the Portugal portion of the trip. Got Erics CD of pics in the mail too, now, so I have more choice for posting.

Later on Ill do it, I said. Ill post them tonight after the Champions League Final, I said...

and then the Champions League final happened, Liverpool vs AC Milan... and it ends up being the craziest and quite possibly the best championship game Ive ever seen in any sport... and I am just too freakin wasted now ... totally spent...

Milan scores right away within the first minute, dominates the first half and eventually goes up 3-nil at halftime, capitalizing on the brilliant play of the best name in sports today, Kaka. 3-nil, a score in soccer which is equivalent to a 40 point lead at the half for basketball, or a 10 mile headstart in a marathon, or consistantly getting lobbed "Sam I am" vocabulary words during the National Spelling Bee. ("HAM" "AYCHH, AYE, EMM" "HAM". "Well done Noli, correct. Now our other semi-finalist is Jessica Simpson. Your Word is 'DIMETHYLAMIDOPHENYLDIMETHYLPYRAZOLONE') Seriously, most Liverpool fans looked as if their Mom discovered and took away their Paris Hilton video.

Liverpool scored quickly though in the second half. And then again. And then again, somehow channelling the Boston Red Sox, and squaring the match with 3 goals in 6 minutes... Liverpool fans go nuts, and Milan fans start "mama-mia"-ing... Then Liverpool proceeded to make crazy saves to keep it tied, while AC continued to press for the go ahead. To no avail.

It goes to extra time and then penalty kicks, the most obsurd yet most exciting deciding event in all sports. Liverpool goalie, Jerzy Dudeck, who was a sieve in the first half, but Jackie Chan in the second half, then does the coolest things Ive ever seen in soccer; in order to distract every Milan penalty kicker, he first stares them down with dagger eyes while he hands them the ball, then he shaked about in goal, doing what looked like a cross between the electric shock, jumping jacks and samba dancing, waving his hands and hips about while every Milan penalty kicker addressed and kicked the ball... which proves shit like that has got to work... cuz he made 3 of 5 saves... Liverpool wins.

And like I said, Im spent. Tomorrow Ill give it another try...