15 CommentsPachaug State Park, Voluntown, CT
September 2nd, 2007
Around 2pm, people have started to arrive at the area, setting up tents, the canopy for the food area, and the fireplace. By 5pm, there were at least 5 families running full steam to get the place setup and ready. I did arrive with Gemma and a truckload of firewood, which was summarily taken and setup around the firepit. Little did we know, we only had about 3 hours of the stuff to burn, so another trip was required later. Oh well, 20/20 hindsight.
Sick game of volleyball. Righteous. Must’ve gone on for at least an hour before we started keeping track of the score. In which case, the losing shot was made and the team I was on, froze on the bounce-back. We all stood there for a second contemplating how funny that was, before shaking our heads and screaming “blaaarrrrgghh!”.
Towards the evening, most of the tents were setup, Boston was able to hop in to the picture and join at the giant fire which was baking everyone around it. We all took turns talking and telling stories. The marine stories, biblical stories, the random ones, the “how crazy my workplace can be” stories, Mcdonald’s stories are included in a category of their own, bloody mary, the variety of jokes, and the slightly childish scary stories (where the ‘plants’ utterly failed). Haha, next year, you just wait! We’ll have you jumping out of your chairs.
Tick…tock…boom number 1! Wait…team one is already out? You mean we lost? Man!
Most of the late nighters went to sleep around 2AM-6AM, myself included. I awoke to my tent being undone around me and dropped on my poor sleeping body. After belly crawling out of the wreckage at around 8AM, breakfast was already up and ready, with people manning the cooking machines making eggs and whatnot. Smells and looks absolutely delicious after a pseudo-all-nighter. Pancakes, anybody?
Around 10AM we started the contests, which were basically things to embarrass whoever participated, started.
First the worm eating contest, where some people actually chickened out at the last second. Because c’mon, who wants to eat worms anyway? Especially gummy worms, teehee! That was really really messy, just check out the pictures.
The next contest involved watermelon eating, and lots of it. Very messy, probably worse than the worm eating. The next contest was banana eating, blindfolded. That was interesting considering Bro. Jeff wrestled the banana into my uvula initiating my gag reflex, yeah we still lost.
The relay, which was fun, consisted of lots of stuff which is weird.
Balloon throwing contest and the tug-o-war. The tug-o-war, was quite interesting, because the females defeated the males on the first match, then the next two were all to the males. But heck, it was fun.
All lunchtime was devoted to jamming on the guitar to many varied and unusual songs. Along with lots of food and water. Yes the water…
Lots of water fights! Because that was the consequence of losing the tug-o-war, despite the fact that Bro. Hank was helping the females!
After that, tents were broken down and put away, and everyone said they had a great time, and told me about what they wanted to see next time. Because next time is gonna be even better!
If anyone wants to include any of their memoirs, please feel free to comment and add to the list. W0rd, homies.
Yep, you summed it up pretty swell bud.
We can totally leave out the questionable (and possibly offensive) humour…mmmyes
in fact…it never happened.
Jolly Good
Oh and you might also want to add the countless times [unnamed people] asked me about [unnamed guy sibling] because [unnamed girl] found said sibling midly interesting.
Scandal.
On second thought, that NEVER happened either.
Bingo.
Hey, we stayed up all night, you went to sleep at 6! Raaawr. It was me, jian, jayo, jeff, paul, sil annnd if I hope I didn’t miss anyone else.
Twas a good morning night.
Oh yeah,
Hot wax + flames = people jumping out of their chairs to get away from the big flames that erupt. mweehehehe. Silly sil.
[Unnamed girl] told me to tell everyone she says hi.
Fun time! When will it be Labor Day Weekend again?
who said the tree stump wouldn’t burn?? who said my big tree branch wouldn’t burn?! everything’s possible..with wax, pandesal and cheese puffs…
oh yeh.
yay for eye bags!!
suuuch a fun night, one of the best of the summer.
ya’ll get your bum bums over here and do thangs btown style!
OOOH! let’s JAM!! check it guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diZs53z6ZGE
i wanna jam!
here’s my intro, body, conclusion haha ok BYE!
jayofromboston (Mr. Boston :D)
It was nice meeting ya! I even got a huggle- after some bribing but what
the
heck XD
It was fun!! But I was wearing white when we had a water fight T.T
The Unbreakable Trio had reunitement after ? months. I even have a pic of it even though isis_angel cut It out!!
Let’s do it again!! And make sure Boston comes over again!!
Aishiteru peoplez!!
Who are you people? I can barely recognize you from your online names!
I always liked staying up at night. Sorta like survivor. Every time someone goes back to their tent, it’s like, “I’M SORRY YOU’VE BEEN VOTED OUT!”
I’ll be gollified if I don’t bring enough clothing for the next time we camp. With all the clothing I wore, I was still freezing.
I like how jeff went into the bush to yell “daddy, where are you?” in sync with Bro. Cliff’s story
but I guess he took too long (someone had to go look for him haha) and by the time he pops out with a “DADDY, WHERE ARE YOOOOU?!”…
Bro Marcel was already on a new story.
-Jianwantsatwixbar
I did what to what picture? lol… my name is pretty obvious Mr. Josh.
I was onto to Jeff’s case the moment I noticed him missing.
I knew Cliff had coordinated something with him, and that’s why I was walking around in the dark with a flashlight. Silly Jeffrey, he had to make so much noise when he ran!
In internet forum slang: Epic Fail.
Every year it’s Jeff though… anyone could’ve went out in search for him. We should have played along. Just for Boston seeing as how it was their first time camping with Norwich and Bristol combined.
Aww why didn’t we do that???
lol.
Or…it would have been cooler if someone unexpected did it like…Ka Mark…
dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuun
Well why couldn’t anybody think of this before the camping trip??? Well next year keep a mental note in doing this… of course we’d have to do it to someone else… hey why didn’t the rest of Boston people come?
me no kno….. o yea Mr Josh, check my profile! It’ll get to ya… very slowly! ‘Sides, dad made me go to sleep! I heard people outta my tent and when I woke up my hair was wet! And I had school the next day too!!! Isis_Angel, you cut off my sis’s head!!! Just when I could’ve gotten a good pic of the Unbreakable Trio together… Let’s do it again!!! JayoFromBoston… it’d be cooler… I’d be laughing my head off if Ka Mark really did that!
Hugglez to everyone who came to camp!!!
“Ok Ka Mark, we’re about to tell the ‘Daddy, where are you?’ story for the fifty gajillionth time, go hide in the bushes, quick!”
Omg, YES.
I can see it now.
Oh, and nobody else from Boston came because it was very late notice… We bought our camping gear the night before hehe. But you know, it was fun just the way it was. Next year though, watch out. there’ll be more of us!!! Bwaahuahuahuahauhauhua!!!
-hahahajianisstillohsoridiculousitsdelicious