Delta Zeta Turtle Tug
I woke up this morning around 9:00 AM after getting to bed last night around 6:00 AM. I’m sore from recent events so it took me an hour to get motivated and get out of bed. I really didn’t even want to get up, but after I got phone calls from both Johnny and Miguel I finally managed to grab a Monster energy drink and get myself ready for the days events. I’m out the door by 10:30 AM on my way down to Wild River in Irvine.
I get to Wild River at 11:00 AM to find that I’m the first one there. I sign in and register and go meet my coaches, go Laurie, Berenice, Danielle and Mary! A little later Johnny, Miguel, Albert, and Robert all show up. They all sign in and we all fill out waiver paperwork. Hey, you gotta be safe rather then sorry. We hang out for a little bit until the festivities began.
We started the event off with the chin orange pass game. Basically the point it to show your spirit and by using only your chin and neck to hold the orange, pass it down the line through 5 members of your team and 5 Delta Zeta’s and then go back to the front with it. We did ok getting it down, but on the way back we had troubles. I think we got 3rd or 4th place.
Next was the tug of war event. We got to go second, I forget against who, and we won. The next spirit event was to dig out 3 pieces of gum out of a plate of flour. I got volunteered to do the event, which was fine by me, I’m down for silly fun. I was the first one to get the gum out of the flour in which I thought I won, but apparently there was a second requirement that I didn’t hear about. You needed to blow a bubble. Well, flour in your mouth makes it hard to get the necessary saliva to be able to chew bubble gum and blow a bubble, so even though I was first to get the gum, I was probably 3rd to blow the bubble. Damn I gotta pay more attention to directions!
We got in our next tug of war match and unfortunately lost. We held in there as long as we could, but eventually we lost our footing and it was over. No green Jello bath for us though, we slid under it. :p The next spirit event was to have one of our members run up the water slide tower, grab the components of a baby bottle, run down, pour in a bottle of root beer and make up the bottle for someone to drink. Can you guess who was the one that got to drink the bottle. Booyah! I rock!
Robert was damn quick and got up the tower and down the tower pretty damn fast, however the other guy was pretty damn fast as well so it came down to who sucks more…I mean, who can suck more…I mean…you know what I mean. :p I started off strong, but as I got down to the bottom, it was hard as hell to finish that off. My opponent started to catch up, but I was able to drain out the very last bit before he could and we won. It was dope.
We did our last tug of war event and won, but got kinda slided since we won twice, lost once, but somehow was only able to compete for 3rd or 4th place. I think something weird happened, but whatever, it wasn’t about winning ( ok yeah, maybe a little :p ), but it was for the fun. The pool of Jello that the Delta Zeta’s had made for our tug of war pit of doom had never been used, since we all slided under it, so they were bummed out that no one had jumped in. I had planned on jumping in, but someone else had beaten me to the thought and did it first. To not lose out on spirit points my team cheered me on, and we got a video of me face planting into the pool of Jello. It was fun, but damn is that stuff sticky!
Our final spirit event was to use every item that was in our goodies bag to make the most creative and fun thing we could. Since I had jumped into the Jello, I found that we already had a source of glue to be able to stick the things to me easily without trying to figure out how to wrap them on someone. I got silver stars stuck all over me, a plastic plate crown, ribbons galore, a puzzle heart, as well as some stickies and paper saying “Delta Chi” Heart “Delta Zeta.” After everything was done and ready, we got judged and after viewing everyone, they came to the conclusion that there were two teams that got first place. Delta Chi ( oh yeah, we knew we had it ) and Sigma Nu.
All in all the event kicked ass and I’m so glad that I got prodded to get motivated and participate because today was filled with fun memories. Thanks to everyone that came, I hope you all enjoy the pictures and memories! ![]()