Curtis Matthews

Last year I rode my bike by CB Smith Park and saw they were having a concert. It was the annual Chili Cook Off, lots of country music and a chili cook off contest.

The main thing that caught my attention was how the surrounding area was thrashed with garbage and broken beer bottles.

This year I made the mistake of driving in that direction in the morning to go to the gym and like last year it was thrashed and it seems that it must go on for two day because that trash could not have gotten there at 8am. Besides the trash a mile long line of cars with confederate flags waving were waiting to get into the park. I was block from going the direction I was attempting to go and had to turn around and go to another LA Fitness in west Pembroke Pines.

I have to say last year I remembered that the following Monday after the Chili cook off weekend the streets were clean so I can not bitch that some country music, chili eating, beer drinking folks had a good time.

I am just jealous I don’t like country music that much or I would be drinking beer and eating chili with my American Flag t shirt.

We made it to the Finals last night of the Fame Natural Body Building competition in Fort Lauderdale, Florida held at the War Memorial center. I was very happy that I could attend and see my first live body building show. What sucked was my camera batteries died after 2 pictures and the one posted is the best of the 2. I did have my Blackberry Bold with me but from where I was sitting the pictures came out fuzzy. I was proud to see the contestants on stage knowing these were the real deals not some Roid Boybut hard working real people from all walks of life and people whom had obstacles such as one guy used to be parlayed and the lady named Amy who loss over 300lbs. I wish this event and other natural body building events would get a better following but I guess most people rather look at a freakish monster than a person whom does not use steroids and trains hard.
The only thing that I saw bad was the turn out it was terrible. Most of the seats were empty and they had to drop the general admission tickets to $2 stating it was to promote drug free body building. What they called VIP seating was the fold up chairs in front of the stage and those tickets were $40, so you can guess most people sat in the general admission seats. The sponsorship was week, they had a new company that Donald Trump is backing that creates personalized supplements based on your body make up. The other sponsor were a vitamin water company, personal trainer certification and a guy promoting his energy pill. I did not stay to the end but the guy who did the Terminator routine and I think is name was Malik, he did a routine with a sword. Those 2 should have place very well in the competition. The 69 year old guy looked great and much respect to him.