"Light green....you're team number four....you now have a madatory 14 minute rest time...."

Yesterday was, in a word, amazing. Mostly because that's the only word that makes this a play on words. Yesterday was the local version of the Amazing Race. It took place in Wells.

It started out with 15 minutes of going door to door (each team on a different street) to raise money for the Kubu family. The team with the most money raised got to start the race first, and each team followed in 5-minute intervals. Our pink-wearing team, appropriately named We Know Janet, started 4th.

The first challenge took everyone forever. We had to hit a coffee can with a golf ball using a slingshot-style piece of rubber (well....sort of rubber). After that the tasks were easier. Dig a plastic egg out of a sandbox, find ribbons in evergreen trees, sink an 8-foot putt, get a ringer in horseshoes, eat an all-American meal of hot dog/fries/jello (only thing was....the hot dog and fries were IN the jello [thankfully we had Tommy to eat that]), etc.

I know I'm missing all of the details, but it'd take me forever and I just don't have that kind of ambition right now. For that, I apologize.

We finished in 5th place, but we still had fun. We didn't win anything initially, but they had a drawing for the teams that weren't in the top 3. We were the first team drawn, and we got a free pizza and movie rental. We took them both and went to Mariah's house to eat and watch Wedding Crashers.

Plans to compete next year? Ready to go.


Random quote del día número uno: "Oh hey!" -- Kimmy
Random quote del día número dos: "When I was six years old, a carnie stole my bicycle." -- Mariah

Final comments: Mine and Tommy's shirts were done last-minute, and we ended up with crappy iron-on paper. They weren't what we wanted and were meant to have sayings on each that we decided we didn't want to put on because it was a hassle. We did add duct tape, so that made it slightly better.

My name: Baron

Tommy's name: Toz

Janet for Convenor

"Just Follow Janet..."

Kimmy and Mariah's shirts were done at about 5 in the morning, and they went pretty much all out. Kimmy's big J in the front and S on the back were falling off the whole time. We thought the S was going to be stuck to Mariah's couch later on.

Kimmy's name: Sexy Kyle

Mariah's name: Ghetto Fab

got janet?

It should be illegal to be this cool

And my final final comment....WE LOVE YOU JANET!