Afterglow 2009 - Day 4 Tuesday

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The Obstacle Course is set up for all ages, but since kids big and small participate, they are tasks designated for people of certain ages. One tasks that is meant for the smallest of the small is the wheelbarrow beanbag pickup. Stacy was technically the smallest and youngest on our team, but since she reads at a higher grade level than Kevin, we made him do this simple task. It is supposed to be so easy that even a baby could do it, but Kevin struggled. Brian sat back and laughed, but soon we would all be laughing at Brian as well. We'll laugh at everyone.

Have you ever seen those pictures where there are weird randoms  in the background? If you go to bars with your you friends (or look at pictures of people going to bars) you will always see randoms making faces in the background. In this picture, Stacy and I were the background randoms. And it was the best thing ever.

We are familiar with the scheduled activities at Afterglow. We've seen the memo posted on the refrigerator. It's the same as it was when we were kids. The Obstacle Course is at 1 pm on Tuesday. Now that we are older, we don't participate. But we did stop to check it out on the way to the lake to go swimming.

If I am somehow banished to Hell for all eternity, I'm pretty sure that Satan will make me try to do these skis as my punishment. To anyone who thinks that it isn't all that bad, I invite you to gather up 3 of your friends and try this out. For some reason, every time that I have ever tried to do this, we have failed miserably. You can call it lack of coordination or lack of unity amongst the participants. Call it whatever you want. I'm just gonna go ahead and call it impossible. If this was a life or death situation, I probably would die right there on the skis.

By now it was extremely obvious that we were committed to wearing our sombreros for the entirety of the week. The kids (those smart little devils) caught on to this and named their team "The Mexican Fighting Sombreros from Tijuana" or some crap like that. At first I was offended, but when they extended an invitation to Kevin and I to be their mascots, everything was cool. So while they delegated the Obstacle Course activities and posed for a team picture, Kevin and I stood in the background and looked awesome. Cause that's what mascots do.

We had never intended to participate in the Obstacle Course. We were merely passing by on our way to the beach. When Gail asked if any adults wanted to challenge to beat the kid's time, I rallied the troops to prove that Team Revolution could conquer all.

Besides the Tug-o-War, the sponge pass has to be my favorite event. It's pretty self explanatory by looking at it. And the name is kind of a dead giveaway as well. I purposely sabotaged (is that being redundant? Can you accidentally sabotage something?) this event by squeezing the sponges on Brian's head instead of in the green bucket. Normally he wouldn't have a problem with that, but what you don't know by looking at these pictures is that it is only in the mid 60's. It's not really too bad, but when you're soaking wet it's pretty G D miserable.

Our team of scrappy youngsters performed admirably in this competition, and I was proud to represent their team. I'm sure that Kevin felt the same way. If they were going to borrow our name and likeness, all that I asked was for them not to suck.