Where's Burt?

the only thing missing from last night's party at cain was burt reynolds. my dad and i decided to show up fashionably late for the 10:00 party at 10:30 and guess what? apparently that ain't fashionably late in NYC - we were only the second people there.

that was actually a good thing because we got to talk to a couple other cannonballers from london, paul and sara. they were actually quite helpful too because they had just completed the run across europe and the rabbit run and gave us a hell of a lot of tips for this one. rumor has it our first run could be 24 hours. my guess is that it'll be about 20 - we leave at 6pm, and we have to check into a hotel, right? more importantly, we have to check out. i figure we have a 3:00 check-in the first day which puts us on the road for 21 hours.

as for the party? it kicked ass - my dad wound up taking off around midnight or so and i think i stayed until about 1:30 - nothing too late (apparently manhattan night clubs are open until 4). while it didn't seem at first that there were many rallyers, it turned out there were - i got to talk to some staff members for the run (wouldn't give out any hints), a couple of guys running their porsche (from mass) and a sister-sister team in their bentley. (from oregon)

also talked with a group of people who just showed up to talk to the rallyers - they were part of a local ferrari club on the island here and just fans of rally races.

more later, i'm gonna roll back over and close my eyes - the martinis at cain are as big as i have seen anywhere.

oh - and the club still had 400 people trying to get in when i left and i gotta tell ya, i was ready to do some serious people watching with the rumored high fashion in NYC and ya know what: fugedaboutit as they'd say here - while this town is great in every respect (mostly), it dropped significantly in my eyes when it comes to fashion... if i'm the best dressed guy in a bar, we got problems... i did peek my head into the hiphop club across the street and those cats were dressed much nicer, but still not up to what i thought i'd see.

must sleep...