Rain, and How it Leads to Lauren's Basement

First of all, I'd like to say that today was pretty much the most amazing SCA work day ever, aside from the fact that John was not with us today to enjoy it. Anyway it began just like any other day, meeting at the school at the crack of dawn, Jen rolling up in her graffiti covered car blasting screamo, and me commenting on how motivated everyone is for doing full-body-stretches before the day even started. The weather in the morning was fair, well, it was fair compared the torrid weather we've been having lately. The only problem was that the humidity was actually visible in the air. You know you're gonna be raining on the inside when you can literally see the humidity on the outside. Anyway, the rest of the morning was pretty routine too. Abbey was DJ and basically schooled us in the music department and Jevon was stretch master and had an.........intriguing question? (totally rolling my eyes at this right now) He wanted to know what everyones favorite type of object was and he wanted to do it in a linear fashion. What this means, no one knows. The hike was sweaty, thats all that needs to be said about that and the rest of the day was orthodox until................the rain started.

Now, for those of you who don't know, weather patterns of any sort will excuse you from physical labor in any circumstance. Lauren, with her aspirations to be a drill sergeant and plastic-melting gaze to match it, almost broke that rule. Luckily though, she hates blood enough not to leave us on slippery rocks surrounded by other slippery pointed rocks on the side of a mountain. At this time, I'll be honest, I didn't believe that this day could get any better. That changed when I found out we were heading to Lauren's basement which, by the way, is like a bar/game-room/best-basement-on-the-face-of-the-planet. Too bad we spent the first hour playing "Choose Your Own Life". For those of you who don't know what that is, it's exactly like that "Choose Your Own Adventure" game where you get to make the decisions in your story except no matter which option you pick someone dies. Totally rigged. But, I will let you in on a little secret, if you leave your kids alone for three hours as one of your decisions you get the only happily ever after if the game. And just for the record Green Team 2, abductions where the kid turns out "healthy and well" definitely counts as a happily ever after ending. To wrap things up we finished the day with the most amazing documentary ever, Planet Earth.

Adios,

Taylormander (yeah, thats my Pokemon name, you got a problem, talk to my trainer, Hurricaney)

P.S.

thats totally Lauren, who else would start this up