May 24th $20 8ball bar box Rusty's Fort Worth,TX
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The cook-in sounds good. I bet the food is great.
We're planning to leave tomorrow morning, I think. Gonna visit the Fort Worth Zoo. Does anyone know if they still have the little train that runs around town and whether there's still a black gorilla "statue" somewhere inside the zoo? Those are the 2 things I'm after most. And, maybe the Mighty Mouse ride. I've ridden that ride every time I have been there, ever since I was big enough to get on. Can't stop, now. I'm still barely big enough to get on. If I ever get old and shrink, I'm in trouble! :wink: (Found the website..... Checking it out, now.)
ftgokie... looking forward to meeting you, there. Hope your family has a nice visit with your sis-in-law.
We're planning to leave tomorrow morning, I think. Gonna visit the Fort Worth Zoo. Does anyone know if they still have the little train that runs around town and whether there's still a black gorilla "statue" somewhere inside the zoo? Those are the 2 things I'm after most. And, maybe the Mighty Mouse ride. I've ridden that ride every time I have been there, ever since I was big enough to get on. Can't stop, now. I'm still barely big enough to get on. If I ever get old and shrink, I'm in trouble! :wink: (Found the website..... Checking it out, now.)
ftgokie... looking forward to meeting you, there. Hope your family has a nice visit with your sis-in-law.
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Ah..well my family isnt going now...my sister in law freaked out (she is bi polar) and drove down to Sugar Land to their moms to stay till sunday...so the wife and son are just gonna stay here....me and a friend are gonna drive down sunday morning.. play, then drive back after the tourney....but I will see you guys there....
Whoa! Well, sorry to hear all that, but at least you're gonna get to go, anyway.
See ya there!
Good Tournament
It was a very good tournament and it was ran very well with all the brackets moving along. Everyone was very polite and friendly. I enjoyed it and hope to make the next one in August.
It was a very good tournament and it was ran very well with all the brackets moving along. Everyone was very polite and friendly. I enjoyed it and hope to make the next one in August.
Great Tourney!
Thanks for everyone who came out! It was fun and the free cookout was awesome as always. :thumbup:
Tracie added $10 per person to the prize fund!!
1st TJ Davis $430
2nd Greg Sanford $300
3rd Chen $200
4th Tony Ewart $100
5/6 Rick Smith and Dave Favor $60
7/8 Tara Williams and Ralf Cortez $30
Players Auction:
1st $450
2nd $340
3rd $225
4th $110
I hope to have photos online in a few days!
Thanks to my helper Barbara Kimbrell - she did great learning to run the charts.
Tracie and Staff are awesome as usual and it was a blast. :grin:
Thanks for everyone who came out! It was fun and the free cookout was awesome as always. :thumbup:
Tracie added $10 per person to the prize fund!!
1st TJ Davis $430
2nd Greg Sanford $300
3rd Chen $200
4th Tony Ewart $100
5/6 Rick Smith and Dave Favor $60
7/8 Tara Williams and Ralf Cortez $30
Players Auction:
1st $450
2nd $340
3rd $225
4th $110
I hope to have photos online in a few days!
Thanks to my helper Barbara Kimbrell - she did great learning to run the charts.
Tracie and Staff are awesome as usual and it was a blast. :grin:
We got home around 4am, this morning. We unloaded the car and hit the sack, so I'm just now waking up and getting to write.
We had a great time, yesterday. It was totally worth the drive!
We went to have fun and meet some fellow AZers and we definitely did that. We met a lot of other great folks, as well.
The service was great and the atmosphere was absolutely wonderful. I put way too much money in the jukebox, though.
The food was also terrific and we even received special orders a couple of times. Can't ask for better service than that!
Jeff-behind-the-counter was great, too. He was on the move and keeping up with things, all day. That young man has some great energy and an awesome personality to match. We definitely owe him a tip, next time we come down. We somehow got away without leaving him a well-deserved tip.
Kristen and Jamie took good care of us Saturday night and Sunday. Mike and Tracie made us feel like regular customers. Just watch them for a few minutes and you'll see they treat everyone like special friends.
Melinda was with on top of the tournament and busy, all day, but never too busy for a friendly hug or an answer to a question.
The competition was great to watch. There were some fine players, there!
After Gene got knocked out of the tournament, we watched for a while, then decided to play a few games and enjoy the evening. I figured out that I play a lot better with a mudball!!! (Imagine that!) I have missed the control I always had with a mudball. When I got use to hitting one again, I had a lot more control of my shots than I've had in a long time. It felt good to know I hadn't totally lost my game, after all. If I missed a couple of shots due to lack of focus, I did get a little frustrated, but having my game back made it easy to get back into the swing of things. (I never did like the little blue eyeball staring at me from one of those Aramith cue balls!)
All in all, this was a great event and we hope to make it back down, for the next one. If you guys announce the next one and don't hear from us, someone please make sure we know it's coming. If we can be there, we will. The atomosphere was wonderful, the equipment was well-cared for and the people were great. It was similar to the atmosphere at the family pool hall we visit most often, up here, so we felt right at home.
ftgokie.... You missed a GREAT event! Hope all is okay on the home front and you didn't have problems on the road.
I don't want to create any confusion, due to my paragraph about mudballs... The tournament was played with Aramith cue balls, but regular play on the tables is with mudballs. They keep the mudballs in pretty good shape, though. They were clean and they weren't chunked up, or anything... and they played GREAT.
We had a great time, yesterday. It was totally worth the drive!
We went to have fun and meet some fellow AZers and we definitely did that. We met a lot of other great folks, as well.
The service was great and the atmosphere was absolutely wonderful. I put way too much money in the jukebox, though.
The food was also terrific and we even received special orders a couple of times. Can't ask for better service than that!Jeff-behind-the-counter was great, too. He was on the move and keeping up with things, all day. That young man has some great energy and an awesome personality to match. We definitely owe him a tip, next time we come down. We somehow got away without leaving him a well-deserved tip.
Kristen and Jamie took good care of us Saturday night and Sunday. Mike and Tracie made us feel like regular customers. Just watch them for a few minutes and you'll see they treat everyone like special friends.
Melinda was with on top of the tournament and busy, all day, but never too busy for a friendly hug or an answer to a question.
The competition was great to watch. There were some fine players, there!
After Gene got knocked out of the tournament, we watched for a while, then decided to play a few games and enjoy the evening. I figured out that I play a lot better with a mudball!!! (Imagine that!) I have missed the control I always had with a mudball. When I got use to hitting one again, I had a lot more control of my shots than I've had in a long time. It felt good to know I hadn't totally lost my game, after all. If I missed a couple of shots due to lack of focus, I did get a little frustrated, but having my game back made it easy to get back into the swing of things. (I never did like the little blue eyeball staring at me from one of those Aramith cue balls!)
All in all, this was a great event and we hope to make it back down, for the next one. If you guys announce the next one and don't hear from us, someone please make sure we know it's coming. If we can be there, we will. The atomosphere was wonderful, the equipment was well-cared for and the people were great. It was similar to the atmosphere at the family pool hall we visit most often, up here, so we felt right at home.
ftgokie.... You missed a GREAT event! Hope all is okay on the home front and you didn't have problems on the road.
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I don't want to create any confusion, due to my paragraph about mudballs... The tournament was played with Aramith cue balls, but regular play on the tables is with mudballs. They keep the mudballs in pretty good shape, though. They were clean and they weren't chunked up, or anything... and they played GREAT.
Glad you guys had fun...Sorry I couldnt make it...people backing out on me at the last second and things just didnt work in my favor for this trip. We did manage to go to Magoos and play in the Sunday tourny....there at the very end I was so tired I had to be told it was my shot because I was about to fall asleep...I actually TRIED to lose my last 2 games...I ended up getting 4th.
Hopefully next time I can make it to this tourney and my sister in law wont spaz out and forget she invited us to stay at her place for the weekend...that kinda upset me and the wife...but oh well.
Sorry I couldnt make it, but I am hoping to make the next one...
Hopefully next time I can make it to this tourney and my sister in law wont spaz out and forget she invited us to stay at her place for the weekend...that kinda upset me and the wife...but oh well.
Sorry I couldnt make it, but I am hoping to make the next one...
Not to worry. There'll be another one. We'll get to meet up with you guys, one day.
Oh no! There's a fat person in my pics! ;-)
We sure had a good time. Glad to see the pictures and the names, misspelled, or not. We remembered a lot of them, but it's great to have a reference to remind us of any names or faces we might forget.
I got lots of cloud pics!
Melinda,
You're gonna think I'm a bit strange. These are the pics I got from the day at Rusty's. I don't recall whether you got a pic of our waitress, but I did. I had to be really quick, though. She wasn't going to give up a pic too easily, so I had to be sneaky to get this one, which wasn't very clear, but her beautiful smile is very evident.
You're gonna think I'm a bit strange. These are the pics I got from the day at Rusty's. I don't recall whether you got a pic of our waitress, but I did. I had to be really quick, though. She wasn't going to give up a pic too easily, so I had to be sneaky to get this one, which wasn't very clear, but her beautiful smile is very evident.
And 2 more...
Great pics Melinda
Thanks.
For anyone who wonders, I really WAS inside more than I was outside, but those clouds just call to me. It's an obsession. Being struck by lightning and having severe tornado damage didn't seem to "fix" the draw the clouds have for me. But, if you ask anyone who was there (almost), they'll tell you I was indoors most of the day. Melinda even got quite a few pics of me to prove it.