As promised, I shall continue to describe the wonderful CT Reunion happenings from last weekend. I'm not sure if I mentioned this in the previous blog, but one of the fun activities from Friday evening was making signs for our fundraising for Joplin plan. Now, we are a pretty creative group of individuals, and we have a ton of fundraising experience since each of us had to fundraise $4,000 in order to participate in Bike & Build. Though we had a variety of ideas of ways to fundraise while we were in CT, we ended up taking signs out to a street corner in the town that Adam's parents live in, and fundraising that way. I'll get to that in Part Tres of the Reunion recap, but I would just like to mention how hilarious people can be when they are trying to think of creative ideas while sleepy from traveling all day. Let's just say there aren't many words that rhyme with Joplin, and that makes clever slogans hard to come by.
Onto Saturday! We all eventually woke up after a nice nights sleep on various floor locations in the apartment. A group of people made the group a lovely breakfast of pancakes (traditional and chocolate chip variety), bacon, and fruit. Allison and her awesome boyfriend Charlie came in from Boston, and though we all kept telling ourselves that we would finally get up and leave, we decided that we should first watch a show involving rival gangs of monkeys called "Street Monkeys" that was narrated by the one and only Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame. The show was hilarious to say the least, and the special commentary we added made it all that much more delightful. After watching an episode of that, we finally decided to head to Hartford for old timey baseball.
If you've never seen old school baseball games, I highly suggest checking it out. Essentially there are baseball games setup where the teams play with the rules from the early days of baseball (no gloves, no helmets, etc.) and they even wear the old types of uniforms. The actual rules of the game are different than modern times, but we were lucky enough to meet one of the players who explained things to us. It was great to see them play, and then we managed to get some photos with one of the teams. At one point, one of the players from a team who was about to play asked us if we would be interested in actually playing. I could barely contain my excitement about being able to do this, but after we started pondering who would play what position, we found out that we couldn't do it due to waivers and insurance reasons. It was quite a bummer, but I understood why they said that. Some of the group had gone out for a run earlier in the day, and they met up with us at the park later in the day. Since we didn't get a chance to play 1860s rules baseball, we decided to play ultimate frisbee.
At this point, we had managed to make a new friend named Adam. Apparently he was going to be a part of our baseball team, but since that didn't work out, he came and played ultimate frisbee with us. Though a lot of us had never played this before (including me), it turned out to be a pretty competitive game. My team got ahead by two scores (I have no idea how the scoring works in Ultimate Frisbee, so instead of saying 2 runs, 2 goals, or 2 touchdowns which would make me sound like I'm not sure what sport I was actually participating in, I'll stick with the scores), and we were about to throw off to the other team to start things back up. The other team stopped for a second to have a group huddle to plan their strategy, so my team decided to do the same though we really had no strategy to discuss. We pondered the idea of throwing the frisbee down the field, and then doing miniature tanks down the field just to confuse them/ be funny. Then someone suggested that we should hold off on that idea so we could score some more points and make sure we didn't lose the game. One of my teammates, who shall remain nameless, said with a very confident bravado "Let's shove it down their throats!", and then we broke up the huddle to start the game back up. After a few tosses, we ended up getting the frisbee back in our possession, and the person who said what would become one of the quotes of the weekend got the frisbee and tried to throw it down the field to a teammate. Well... he ended up "shoving it down their throats" because he hit Adam (our new friend who is not a Bike & Builder) who was on the other team and got him square in the nose. Though it looked like a nasty hit, Adam appeared to be alright, minus the bruise on the bridge of his nose, and we decided that it might be a smart idea to stop playing Ultimate Frisbee for the day.
After all the excitement of old time baseball, ultimate frisbee, and almost breaking a stranger's nose on accident, we decided to get some lunch at a local Hartford brewery. Adam ended up coming out to lunch with us, and we all got a chance to eat some really delicious food, and talk and have fun. It was cool to get to know Adam, and I think he enjoyed hearing about how we all know each other from Bike & Build. After we ate our delicious food, we departed from Adam and Hartford, and a group of us went to the bike shop to visit our Adam at work. In true B2SB '10 fashion, we decided to organize a cheer for Adam that we would shout when we went into his shop. Luckily no customers were in the shop when we did it, otherwise they would have probably been very confused. When we came into the shop, we did our special cheer for Adam, and somehow he wasn't completely embarrassed by our obnoxious entrance, but we got a chance to see all the cool things he has at his shop. There were some really awesome bikes at the shop, and some folks tried out the unicycle to see if they could do it. I think we are all going to need some practice before we decide to do Bike & Build: Unicycle Edition, but people really had fun checking out the shop.
We had to figure out dinner plans after all the excitement of the day, and we decided to relive one of our favorite meals from Bike & Build, TACO NIGHT! With the help of Kelsey and the "dinner crew", we had a wonderful feast full of tacos, fruit salad, chips and queso, and other gloriousness. This was the beginning of what would be a wild and wonderful evening!
In CT Reunion Recap Part Tres: Rubik's Cube Party- Teeth or Toes, I'll fill you all in on one of the greatest party ideas I've ever heard of/ participated in. If you are thinking about having a big shindig in the future, the next part of this recap will help you prepare for what could be the greatest party ever!
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