Prancing and Sucking

I quit my job, sold my home, and drove around the country in the summer and fall of 2006, training BJJ, finding myself, and landing in LA. I still travel a lot and get to train in amazing places. Some of my friends are irritated that I "prance" around the world and think I "suck" for doing so.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Pics from Abu Dhabi weekend

Here are the pics.

Me, Rachel, and my shiner in cute Princeton coffee shop:

Me and Tim/Stimy at Dojo:

Alicia, me, and Felicia eating pasta salad after the weigh-in:

Me, Alicia, Felicia, Johnny, and Jeannette showing off our ADCC stamps. You can't really see them, and I had to get about 3 because they kept washing off. But they were cool!


Jen and me after my fight. My hair looks frizzy because Anahi and Felicia braided it for me and when I was done competing I took it down. I don't have pics of my fight because, well, I was fighting, but I'm sure Alicia has some. So you will be able to see the Fight Hair in those. I'll post them when I buy some.

The hilarious Anahi and me.

Felicia, Anahi, and Alicia after Felicia's win. You can't see it, but it's a safe bet the belt she won is around Felicia's waist!

Crazy post-competition party at Outback Steakhouse with Andrew, Dave, Felicia, Alicia, Rudy, Johnny, Jeannette, me. Things that made it crazy: 1) Dave had coffee (to keep him awake on the 4-hour drive home; Dave NEVER has coffee), 2) Felicia had two bites of cheesecake, 3) we got extra sauce for the Bloomin' Onion, 4) we all went to sleep shortly thereafter.

9 Comments:

At 8:15 AM, Blogger TonyP said...

Way to go Val! I'm glad you had a great time.

Did you steal dave's fanny pack?

 
At 8:15 AM, Blogger TonyP said...

Way to go Val! I'm glad you had a great time.

Did you steal dave's fanny pack?

 
At 9:45 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congrats! I am sure it's an experience to remember.

chuong

 
At 3:29 PM, Blogger aliciaphotos.com said...

Damn! Did I ever take that meat sweatshirt off?


Go TEAM VEAL ADOOBE!!

 
At 5:07 PM, Blogger thetrianglekid said...

awesome job, val! i think it's about time for a belt change ;)


COME BACK TO CHICAGO!

 
At 5:53 PM, Blogger Valerie said...

Thanks, FT and Chuong! It was really fun.

Alicia, now you need to get Team Veal patches.

Kuan, I'm planning to be in Chicago in December. I have two new New Breed t-shirts and will be representing! I'll keep you posted.

 
At 8:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice job. You look almost as bad as I did after getting jammed into the sand surfing in August ... say yo to Woody and Jen and the crew ... ED

 
At 9:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

PS

this is REALLY random but i just got an invite from BEAR on myspace ... val you're on my my space too where's Woody's ... jesus ! hahaha ED

 
At 10:03 PM, Blogger Valerie said...

Whoa, Ed. I remember Bear! Talk about a blast from the past.

 

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