Virginia Beach Memories

• At the awards ceremony at Busch Gardens, when the conductors were called up their groups would scream and applaud. When Mr. P was called up we all gave him
• At 10:30 Saturday night the chaperones had all 200 of us stand on a tiny stage to take photos. Someone tried to adjust one of the lights and it fell and smacked someone else in the eye. Then all the lights on stage went out.
• At that same photo session, all the chaperones were taking pictures of us. There was a quick lull in their photos and the guy behind me took out a camera and took a picture of the chaperones.
• Prank phone calling Kevin at 2 in the morning and having Deirdre say, Potty go down the hole. Wait, how can the potty go down the hole?
• Having Kevin tell us that someone prank phonecalled him at 2 in the morning saying, Potty go down the hole. Wait, how can the potty go down the hole?
• Trying grits (mmm...) ps- to all you Southerners who think I'm psycho, I live in New England. We don't eat grits here. *sigh*
• Decorating my hat. (anyone who wasn't on the trip will not get that)
• Slamming Jenny's big doofy hat from Busch Gardens on her head.
• Mr. P overhearing mine and Fred's plans for him during our group's goofy picture and him saying, Honestly Fred, I don't give a damn what you do to me.
• The photographer calling for a goofy picture and Mr. P scooting out of there as fast as possible.
• Walking around the hotel at 10:45 wearing old pants, a scrub shirt, my snazzy hat, and a plastic sword I bought at a dollar store.
• Swordfights with Deirdre on the Virginia Beach boardwalk.
• No Swearing signs on the boardwalk
• PowerTramps
• Watching Shrek on the bus at 5:30 in the morning
• Seeing a giant billboard for the Erotic Empire
• Having the DJ dedicate a disco song to me at our beach party. (he asked what kind of music us Northerners listen to and I told him disco as a joke. He dedicated the next song to me. Chris, YOU ARE EVIL!!!!
• Listening to Adam Sandler's Ode to My Car, then calling Kevin and playing it into the phone at 2 in the morning
• Jenny's Irish whistle. (sounds like a cat in a microwave. note to self: ask Mr. P if I can join the Irish Whistle section)
• Sitting through the Somewhere's Boy's Choir performing The Ballad of So-And-So and Someone. The song was 10 minutes long!
• M&Ms. mmm...
• Telling dirty jokes at 2 in the morning
• Putting our feet in the ocean when it was 40 degrees
• The guys jumping in the ocean then trying to find Mr. P to give him a hug

• Movie after Movie after Movie...
• Deirdre picking up the phone at 2 in the morning and hearing the sound of an Irish whistle. (and Jenny was with us. wierd.)
• Driving 14-17 hours both ways and only being able to use the bathroom in an emergency.
• Bus bathrooms. Enough said.
• Fried chicken
• playing Mario in the lobby, having Fred tell me he's the master at that game, handing it over to him with 2 lives left, then turning it on to discover all 6 golden coins gone (game over)
• 200 kids in line for McDonald's breakfasts
• Drinking coffee (blech)
• Drinking Mountain Dew. (mmm)
• Karaoke at the beach party. I sang Get Over It by the Eagles before he told us not to sing the profanity. Everyone cheered for me. I was so happy
• The women chaperones calling themselves the Mammas and singing and dancing to Dancing Queen
• Sleeping on the bus to everywhere
• Arriving at MHS at 1 am on Monday and going to school 6 hours later knowing full well I'm going to fall asleep in class or JSA
• Almost having a riot when they tried to take more pictures Saturday night. All of us had gotten about 15 hours of sleep total the whole time we were there and now they were trying to force us to have our pictures taken. Anyone who wasn't there, you do the math. They didn't do the pictures
• The infested hotel pool
• Sneaking by the Navy officers to get off the USS Wisconsin. (thank you Tony for letting me stay with your group)
• PSYCHED FOR FLORIDA 2005!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!!!