Cannes part 1.....

Generally, when things get overwhelming for me, I like to split things up and break them down. In looking how many pictures and stuff I took in Cannes I thought I’d break up the post into chunks. This is the first one. To be honest, I could’ve probably done this all in one big post but I spent the day playing fight night round 4 and tiger woods golf, so now it’s 10:30 and I feel like I should at least make an attempt to start writing this stuff.

Me and my buddy John Murray won a trip to Cannes to compete in the young lions competition. On paper we were psyched because our competition was going to happen on our first day there. We figured we could do the competition then spend the rest of the week just partying and having fun and all that good stuff. However, after 20 hours of traveling, and a 9 hour time difference we realized our brains were pretty fried for the actual competition. It was unfortunate and I know the two of us still have regrets about how we approached it. Oh well, that hiccup aside the week was pretty awesome.

The flight over to Cannes was actually not as bad as we expected. The only bummer was that it literally didn’t get dark at all for the entire 10 hour flight. After a brief stop over in London we headed to Nice and finally took a cab into Cannes.

When we first got there we walked around for a bit, checked out a few things then went to a bar. We figured that first day we wanted to force ourselves to stay up until 9. The best way we could figure to do that was by going for a drink or two until then. We made it until 8:30.

The next day after a night of not really sleeping, we registered at the convention center where we got interviewed by people from the festival (warning, not the coolest interview you’ve ever seen, also note how they didn’t use any of Jon’s bits, poor guy is just trying to find somewhere to stare the entire time).

After registration we did a bit of touristy stuff for a little bit. Checked out a market and some cooler side streets, basically just wandered around, enjoyed some coffees. This was also my first time noticing some strange quirks about Cannes. Apparently they have a big problem with overweight dogs pooping. Also, saw a super powerful beer, with a super powerful name. And it was my first time noticing that apparently racism isn’t as much of a faux pas in France as it is in North America. All in all, First impressions, the town was very very pretty. You could tell it was a playground for the rich. There were yachts so big that they had pools on them with yachts in the pool (thank you, please tip your waitresses).

Okay, more to come tomorrow.