We find ourselves waiting...

Literally clockwatching down to the second, every day at work, in the car, at home, on the John, waiting in line at the bank, heck even while I type this my mind has little cogs in it trying to work out how long till the home stretch. Tom Petty had it right, the waiting is most certainly the hardest part.

There’s been a couple of emails that have been forwarded out and around…well more than a couple, no joke – closer to 1000 than it is to 100! They’ve done the rounds in the past three months, getting forwarded around more than those “Fat Emo” or “FAIL” emails, and probably providing each of us more laughs than those now cliché pictures.

There has been countless varying opinions, sledging, name calling, grasps of the English language, and acceptable emails for work email accounts, but to be fair we’ve been eating them up like Homer when he went to Hell in that classic Halloween Special…season 5 I think? Needless to say cartoon quotes, Suns statistical anomalies, movie scenes and random sing-a-longs will make the time pass in the truck we’re driving around in…but that all seems oh so far away!!

Apologies to all the peeps at my work at the NZ Transport Agency, if I’ve bored you with rants about the voyage to the Valley of the Sun, it’s only because I care….about the Suns…haha. Month end won’t be the same without my moaning I’m sure…or the two pregnant lasses leaving around the same time, Chrystal and Julie (I only tease you two cos I care).

We’ve purchased a mascot, a Monkey, aptly named ‘Sunny’ by sunsdownunder, along with the odd group trinket to take along for the ride. If you see a small pack of Suns supporters carrying a purple monkey, odds are it will be us, so make sure you yell out and say g’day, we won’t bite and would love to meet some local Phoenicians. On that point, we’ll be in a sort of uniform, armed to the teeth in Suns gear and baying for opposition blood and/or rebounds. We’ll be the devilishly good looking foreign gentleman yelling louder than an old woman at a Tom Jones gig, minus throwing the underwear – though we do have a couple of Suns garters that will be used as punishment and/or when a good photo op raises itself.

The seating process has been fun…and hectic! Spreadsheets aplenty, prices from all over the economic spectrum floating around, and plans to get as close to the action as possible.

I think Never Fear will be bringing a bottle to the game to get some sweat from Mr Hill, while the rest of us will be screaming our butts off and trying to get as much out of every game as we can.

A highlight for all of us all will be against the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, arguably the most famous sports venue in the world. We’re all hoping it turns out better than last year’s visit to the Garden, and with Coach D’Antoni in charge it’ll be an eye opener for sure! Will be weird seeing DA, Q and Marbury on the Knicks…but who knows who’ll be there in a week’s time let alone three months!

The Hawks game in particular will be special, as we have (drum roll please) COURTSIDE SEATS! I’m not sure who nevetsov kidnapped/took incriminating photos of/blackmailed to get them, but I’ll take the same approach I take to eating burgers – I don’t care how it got on my plate, I’m going to eat that bad boy if I’m hungry. In this case, my eyes will be feasting on the Suns and their smorgasbord of offense and entertaining plays.

After the big six game road trip we have the three game homestand, which will be epic and just being in the Suns stomping ground will be an experience I know I’ll never forget. A Mecca-like trip for us all, it promises to be one of the most memorable moments of our collective lives.

The pickup game between the International Suns Fans and the locals will be a doozy, and we’ll hopefully get some photos/video to see the C grade movie impressions of our Suns boys!

Anyhew, stay tuned for the next riveting update…

Cheers

TASTIC

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