It's been another hectic and exciting couple weeks, and I have so much I want to tell you!
Ok first off, last Friday was casino night! Basically everyone at Tommy got all dressed up 007-style and gambled with neon-colored money and bid on a horse race and, you know, participated in fun casino-related things like that. I have no idea how to play any games (i.e. poker, black jack, roulette) so I just walked up to a table, put $2,000 down on my lucky number (15) on the table, and next thing i know someone told me I won $20,000 and threw it into my hands--so that was cool!!! If only it were real....Nevertheless, the first time I (fake) gambled, I won! YAY!!!
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| All dolled up for Casino Night! |
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| Erin and me :) |
SO,
Now on to the really good stuff.
This weekend was Tommy Car Rally 2012.
*Note to my much younger and much older audience comprised of family members:
The following statements are chock full of immature, college-age, crude humor that you may find inappropriate. Don't worry, I'm still as innocent as can be, Australia hasn't corrupted me yet. Nevertheless, I wanted to give you guys the heads up so you're prepared, and so you don't disown me after you learn of all the atrocious things I have done.
End of note*
Car Rally = an excuse to do ridiculous (and probably illegal) things in public for 5 hours, then go camping in the outback with your best friends.
How Car Rally Works:
You are divided into cars, and each car is a team. Each team has a theme, and you dress up according to that theme. Each team receives a "Task List"of things you must complete before traveling to the camping site later on in the evening. So essentially, you go on a scavenger hunt through the city and make an absolute fool of yourself, and then meet up with your friends in the middle of nowhere to have a sleepover and talk about all the stupid things you did. It's awesome.
So, I was on a team with my friends Erica, Alanna, Sean, and Erin, and let me tell you, we took these tasks by storm. We completed almost every task we were given, which (trust me) is saying something considering the nature of the tasks. One task even got us banned from a local super market....sorry, Mom and Dad! :)
For every task you complete, you receive a certain number of points. Also, each task requires that you have photo or video evidence of its completion. For example, some tasks that required photo evidence (which won you 100 points each) included:
"1) Kiss another team member of the same sex
2) Whole team in a port-a-potty
3) Skinny dip or nudie run
4) Public urination
5) Sniff a dog's butt
6) Find a Lady Gaga look-a-like
7) Eskimo kiss a stranger
8) Whole team on one bed in a bedding store
9) Get a shot named after you in a bar"
A few tasks that required video evidence (300 points):
"1) Walk into a hardware store and ask for a screw
2) Dance provocatively behind a stranger
3) Cone someone at Macca's
4) Go into a restaurant and read the menu aloud, Shakespeare style
5) Have a checkout girl put out an announcement looking for your friend with a dirty name (this is the one that got us banned from a super market...hehehe oops!)
6) Have a team member eat 8 cheeseburgers in 4 minutes
7) Wrap yourself in a towel, and knock on a stranger's door and ask to use their shower
8) Pile your team into a shopping cart, ride through the store, and then bail!
9) Walk around a public area and argue with your alter-ego, that only you can see...
10) Ask a stranger for their autograph
11) Cinnamon Challenge
12) Pretend your car is broken down and push it to the nearest gas station with strangers' help"
Items to collect/do along the way:
1) get a traffic cone
2) glow sticks
3) homeless person's house
4) get a male team member to get his makeup done
As you can see, some of these tasks are pretty hilarious and absurd, and I didn't even mention the really bad ones!
Here are a few pictures of some of the teams before we startled tackling our task lists!
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| Team "Balanced Meal" |
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| Wario, Donkey Kong, and Erica |
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| 100 points if you can find what does not belong in this picture.... |
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| Wario, Princess Peach, and Donkey Kong (Team Mario Kart) |
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| Team Toga |
I made a little video of all of our ridiculous stunts for your viewing pleasure, hopefully you giggle as much as I do when you watch it!
After everyone completed their tasks, we all drove an hour outside of the city to Mandurah, which is literally in the middle of nowhere. After 30 minutes of driving down an obscure, unlit dirt road, we came out on the top of a hill in the middle of the Australian outback--no civilization in sight, just stars as far as the eye could see. Honestly, it was so incredible. I wish I could explain what it was like there to everyone back home, but that's near impossible. I swear there are more stars just in general over here. Secondly, we weren't surrounded by any lights/signs of life while we were camping, so the entire sky was lit up with stars. There were more stars than there was sky! It was truly sublime--I also saw shooting stars throughout the course of the night, and I counted at least 10! How cool is that?!
When all the teams arrived in Mandurah, the Aussies set up the barbie (barbecue) and we had a good old fashioned cook out around a massive campfire (meanwhile, the temperature plummeted and we all got bundled up in sleeping bags and blankets).
After that, shenanigans ensued, which I will not document here since I am doing my best to keep this G-rated :) Needless to say, it was hands down my best night here so far, and I had more fun than I can begin to explain with all of my new friends!
I was in an incredible place with incredible people, where we all were soaking up each other's awesomeness (Mean Girls quote, hollaaa)
I wish you all could have been there with me! It was amazing--the beauty of this place is awe inspiring!
Love you all!
Cheers,
Becca :)
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