Around the World!!!

Wow! I'm so sorry, I didn't realize how long it had been since I'd written. It's sometimes hard to motivate myself to update because there's so much time to just sit around and dwell on nothing, but I suppose I have a lot to talk about in this entry.

Needless to say, the rest of that day did NOT go as I had hoped. However, it turned out swell by the end. Let me mention first that it had been decided that Saturday night would be another theme party/competition. The theme was Around the World and each cabin was told to pick an obscure country to present for the rest of the company. Food, drink, costumes and decorations were all a necessity. My cabin was combined with the adjoining cabin. We, the duplex, chose Fiji for our country.

Okay, so after I finished writing about how I was going to spend time at the pool I had to go changeover the set from whatever it had been the night before into the pirates set because the children's youth theater production of To Be or Not to Be...a Pirate? uses our set. that took until about 12:45. I went back to the cabin to change into my bathing suit. I asked if there was anything I could to do help set up for the party. Since the other girls were already working on food and drink and decorations, they asked if I could go gather some long grass for our costumes and for decorations. Well, that took for freakin ever. Okay, it took an hour. But I gathered grass for an hour. Then finally as I was ready to set off for the pool, Ronen came up and reminded me that I'd told him I'd go see the kids show with him that day. I was grumpy about it, particularly cause I was still supposed to go on this stupid ice cream date with Putt-Putt, but he told me it was only 40 mins so I should go with him. After much pestering (and MAYBE a trip to Grumpy's for some pre-show shots of tequila) I agreed to go see the show. It was awful. And I know they're just kids, but ug. It was bad news. Not only that, it was AN HOUR AND A HALF long. So by that time it was well past 4, I called Putt-Putt and asked if we could reschedule I didn't make it to the pool because we had to change the set back over. BUMMER.

Despite being grumpy about not making it to the pool, the Around the World party TOTALLY made up for it. The competition was judged by the RMRT alum who had sung the special event the night before. Now, I did say the rules said obscure countries. Here's what it turned out to be. Fiji, Greenland, Texas, 78% of the earth's surface (so the ocean) and Columbia. It was all INCREDIBLE. Fiji went first. Everyone in the entire company came into our cabin and we had the judges and some others sitting around on a carpet we'd laid out. The drink we made was called Caba which is some ritualistic root drink that actually tasted pretty terrible but it was a lot of fun having everyone clapping their hands and doing the rituals and what not. Anna made a pineapple sweet potato back with cheese melted on top. Everyone got to try a little bit and it was fantastic.

Onward to Greenland! Scott and Sarah are the vegan couple of the company who live together. We all packed into their cabin which they had decorated with white sheets draped everywhere. They were both wearing winter gear. They didn't have any food for us, we all got hot chocolate with schnapps which tasted great. We also got a fun fact! Did you know that if Greenland were to melt that the water level of the ocean would rise 23 feet? Cool, huh?

Next was the main house who chose Texas as their country. The main house consists of the most people out of any cabin, seven of them under one roof (although one of them is pretty anti-social so he didn't really participate). Most of the kids from there are from southern states and like to joke with each other that they're a southern family anyway. They all talked with annoying accents and yelled alot. They had American themed balloons everywhere and a confederate flag which was...cute. Jack Sweeney grilled hot dogs and they were phenomenal. Their beverage was a gin bucket with an ef ton of gin in it, but I guess that's what happens when you have 6 people buying booze.

THe ocean was next. Cat lives by herself so she joined Luke and Christina, the other resident couple of the company. I don't recall their decorations, but they looked incredible. Christina just looked like a sea urchin or something. Luke walked around in a bathing suit and life preserver and Cat had a mermaid costume. They actually made vegan avocado sushi! They also had blue jello with Swedish fish sticking out and they made Velveeta pasta shells. They called their drink "Whale's Milk" and it consisted of milk, caluha and vodka. By this point we were all drunk as hell which made us that less prepared for...oh gosh, Columbia.

The loft house did Columbia. While the Fiji house consisted of only females, Columbia's house is the home of one actor, two musicians and the lighting designer. All male. All effing crazy. Honestly, words can't really describe their house. Kent, the lighting designer, set them up with red lights all over the house. The borrowed the jail cell that had been used in the Buffalo BBQ Parade. Josh, the actor, was locked in the cell with bags of powdered sugar that looked like cocaine and danced around saying sexually perverted things to all the girls. They made fried plantains and some sort of dulce de leche cake which was effing incredible. Honestly. their booze scared me so I didn't have any of it and I don't really recall what it was. They also burned about 20 sticks of incense at the same time. The whole cabin complex still smells like Columbia.

In the end, Fiji won for most authentic, Texas won best pride and Columbia took home the Roustabout t-shirts with the overall win. It was so much fun and I don't think I've been more drunk since I got here.

I have more stories from the past few days including my trip to Estes Park and my....huhhh, ice cream date with Putt-Putt, but it's 1:00 here and I want to get up early tomorrow before a lunch party we've been invited to.