The call of "wake up we have to leave , they are kicking us out !" is familiar . The pounding headache i woke up with is somewhat familiar . Alcohol poisoning is new to me , and i don't like it . Now when i woke up i did not know i had alcohol poisoning , but i did know i didn't want to drink and by the time we got to Bolzano which was not too far from Innsbruck .
When we got to Bolzano the first thing we did was check into the youth hostel and i found out my roommates were our British teammates aka the Island Monkeys ( LOL) Daz,Paul,and Rob . These 3 drove some odd 24 hours all the way from Sheffield,UK to join us for the exhibition games and tournament . We actually bumped into them on the highway going to Innsbruck ....funny it is when we stopped for more booze that we bumped into them randomly . But on this day we only had an exhibition game to look forward to and that was in the evening and it was barely midday at this point so we all decided to go into the city centre . When i say we all i mean all of us that were not Czech as our Czech teammates had their own agendas apparently . So it was Rainer, Timo,Andi,Maria,Rudi (all in the room across from mine ) and the English speakers HAHAHA , that mainly hung out .
Walking into the city centre i realized how truly hungover i was and began to experience what i call "The Liver Quiver " . Oh man feeling like shit would be a major upgrade . And yeah it was sunny and beautiful , we were all wearing shorts and it was such an amazing experience , if i was not so damn hurting . So i was a trooper and dealt with it and enjoyed the day to the utmost ...by watching my new found friends enjoy Latte's and beer on patios , i couldn't stomach anything :( That night we finally got on the ice , not in Bolzano but in Meran . Another town not too far from Bolzano . I was hoping to kick the hard feelings from the night before with a bit of sweat .To my knowledge the name of the team we played in Meran was the Bolzano Black Tigers and we kicked the living shit out of them ! Like i mentioned before we had 2 ex NHL players (Czechs) on our team ....Petr Havelka was drafted ( not sure if he ever played) and we had Michal Sivek who was also C of Czech National Jr. team at one point and also traded for Jaromir Jagr . These guys laid a hardcore beatdown on these poor guys that i think invited us out to play them and were not very excited about getting killed 12-1 . We were happy though and went back to have dinner before turning in . Tomorrow the tournament starts and i still feel like crap .
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