Where is the coolest place you have ever been or coolest thing you've ever done with your clothes on? One for me is the top of Heavenly ski resort at Lake Tahoe. You look down the snowy mountain to the deep blue lake but if you look just slightly to the right you look down into the dry brown desert.
Coolest place I've ever been? On the free throw line in front of 20,000 people at the Toyota Center shooting baskets during a second quarter timeout of the Rockets vs. Lakers playoff game (Game 2) in May 2004.
I got to sit in the NBC production trailer for an Oilers playoff game. That was pretty cool. I went to one of my Uncle's broadway plays when I was 10 or 11 and went backstage. We were being introduced to Chita (sp?) Rivera when a super-coked Liza Minelli (also in the play) ran in with nothing but a long shirt on freaking out about some guy that was there to see her. I only knew her from "Arthur" at the time and she was jumping around the room like that SNL monkey character that Chris Kattan used to play. A very mindblowing experience. During the last Superbowl, I was able to "horn synch" with Mango Punch on the field at half time. Got to meet Aerosmith and Beyonce. I met Willie Nelson and all I could say was ,"Loved you in Half Baked". That's all I can think of right now.
Probably on top of the qutub minar, considering its been closed off to the public since like the 70's. Close second has to be Al Burj Hotel.
Coolest thing I've ever done: Well, I haven't done it yet, but in 3 weeks I'm going to Omaha to meet and spend a couple of hours with Warren Buffett. I can't wait.
Wow, thats really cool. I've always wanted to ask Buffett a few questions about the market. I also wanted to speak to George Soros someday. Closest I've been to talking to a market genius is Fayez Sarofim (the finance billionaire) in Houston. For me, the coolest thing I've done is having dinner with Eminem a few years back , just as he was about to become very famous. I've met him a few times since, but the first meeting was very cool.
watching my wife give birth to our two children. most moving experience ever. it will never be topped and the memory will never fade.
That's a tough one. Quepos at Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica's the most beautiful place I've ever been. I can't wait to go back. Montana's the most religous place I've been. That Big Sky Country blew me away. But the coolest place? Rudyards Pub in Houston, Texas. No question.
our deer lease on hunting weekends from november to january when i was about 9 and 10 years old. i absolutely loved going up there (even though i didn't hunt and still don't to this day), getting to start the fire in the morning, eating the eggs and bacon and biscuit breakfasts, going to the lake and river and throwing stuff in there, it always being so cold, shooting a bb gun, sticking twigs and pine needles and styrofoam plates in the fire, listening to john fogerty's "centerfield" tape as i went to sleep at night. we haven't been in a long time and i'm not even an outdoorsy type person, but nothing can top how fun that was back then.
I'd have to say the coolest place I've been was on the ski slopes at Alta, Utah in January of 1997. It was the honeymoon of my second marriage but my first time ever on downhill skis-- at age 43. We went skiing with my wife's Aunt and Uncle and some friends of theirs. I was the only neophyte skier. I went up high with them on the last day after toiling for the first two days on the Bunny Slope with my instructor. The snow was awesomely beautiful. Remember, I was born and raised in Houston, Texas where it snowed in Kindergarten of 1960 and then again in 1972 when I was readying to graduate from high school. Such silent beauty in all that snow. The most awesome thing I've ever done is to witness the birth of my four children. The first labor lasted 40 minutes or so from the time we entered the hospital. The second was a scheduled C-section which I stood over and watched. The third was a five and a half hour labor. The fourth was a 12-hour labor. The miracle of birth is astounding.
I'm only 20...so I guess my experience is limited, but one of the most breathtaking things i've ever done/seen is view Las Vegas at night from over 1,000 feet while shooting upwards on the Stratosphere Tower Big Shot. It's crazy having your feet dangle from a little seat with all those lights below you. It took me a second to open my eyes, but once I did...gosh, it was beautiful...
actually i realized i didnt mention a coolest place. my coolest place i've been to is the great alaskan wilderness, or lake tahoe. the german black forest is also quite breathtaking.
-top of 7th heaven (a run on the blackcombe mountain of whistler). -in the vancouver canucks locker room. -just outside the vancouver grizzlies locker room, ironically - since i didn't like the rockets back then, it was after a vancouver/houston game and i talked to Cuttino for a bit - then met Shareef and Bryant Reeves.
Section 23, 50 yard line, 7th row up when Texas beat Oklahoma in 1999. The last time I'll witness such a victory over Stoops.
I guess Australia. I wish I could have spent more time in Sydney, and that it wasn't raining ice water during that short time. I also went to one of the islands on the east coast there, Great Keppel Island, I got to go snorkeling over the reef there.
That's classic! My coolest place has to be the mountain that overlooks the valley where my grandmother lives in Pennsylvania. It looks absolutely magical in the summer.
