Ski Weekend 2006- Poconos Love!

How about the 20-30-somethings' rendition of Chubby Bunny?!



The whole gang re-convened for another weekend of madness... this time we had some newbies.... Dan, Natalie (Cait's friend from PSU), Josh (Paul's friend from DC), Lexie, and America (Sean's girlfriend) all joined the core group - Jeremy, Paul, Sean, Mollie, Doug, Caitlin, Emmy, and me. We had an amazing weekend, as always, hanging out with each other in Lexie's family's beautiful weekend retreat.

Highlights of the weekend include lots of catch-up chatting, Chubby Bunny, DDR, board games, lots of booze, Sound of Music highlights, the January birthday party, delicious meals, and great skiing, of course!

(NO, we do NOT consider Dan's comment to Caitlin a highlight...)

The Orange Bowl Quote Board

The Sex Quotes:
“Sex in the front yard... hmmmmmm...." -Anonymous

“I love the hummers.” – Jenn

“Do we got balls? We got them from FSU…” - Anonymous

“I raped AJ Nicholson.” – FSU Fan

"Forced Sex University" - Some guy's sign

“Orange you glad you didn't get raped by AJ Nicholson…” - Another guy's sign

Ben- “Be all you can be Dave.” Dave- “Later tonight, if you hear me say I'm in the army now, don't look up.”

“They're gonna have sex tonight. Winner on top.” - Ben describing a PSU/FSU couple.

“Can I touch ‘em too?” - Kristin Z.

“It's just like cutting up dead people.” - Jenn on cutting up raw chicken

“Actually, could you take it out? I don't want my hands to smell like meat. " - Jess

“Bring on the meat.” - Kristina

Cait- “Get it up.” Mike- “I am trying to get it up, Cait!”

“Nice rack!”- Jeff to some dude

“I wouldn't sleep with him even if I were dead…” – Kristina

“Those are some hardcore balls.” – Doug

“Go big or go home.” – Jenn

“There's gotta be a hole you can stick it in somewhere.” - Mike

“That's it? It's so tiny!” - Kristin Z to Mike

“Honey, is it because I'm too fat that it hurts?” – Keith


The Strip-N-Slide / Late Night Swimming Quotes:

“Strip & Slide” – BJ

“If you're going to cover anything, cover your mouth.” – Tori, on naked late night strip and slide
“No one will believe it when they get pregnant on the strip and slide…” -Mike, about coed naked strip and slide

“Did you have a good time at the Orange Bowl? I don't know, ask me in nine months...” – Mike

“Mankind would be fucked if my nipples flew into the sun…” – Doug

Mike- “If shrinkage were a contest, I'd totally win.” Doug- “Don't be so sure about that…”


Other Fun Quotes:

“Do you believe in miracles?” - Doug on the keg of Yuengling showing up from above

“I could grab your shit if you wanna hug.” – Kristina

“Who was that 35 year old woman you were with?” – Anonymous

“Now it's a load-bearing flamingo.” - Zack on people taking pics with the flamingos

“The keg doesn’t like me because I’m white…” – Keith

"It's Gary Coleman plus 4 feet.” - Alex Davis

Doug- “So, for a #1, how many squares?” Erica- “About 15.” Doug- “Are you serious?” Erica- “Yes, I want to make sure everything is clean!” - talking about toilet paper...

“Just give me a wiener and a beer!” – Terri

“Tilden's like a rolled up rug... he's feeling your sisters boobs!” - Some kid we can't remember

“Why do I want to retire? I could be here or shoveling snow at home.” - Joe Pa

“But it's ours and I'm going to take it!”- Joe Pa

“Tequila gets me really messed up…” - Cassie, age 19

“I puked on my way here.” - James

“If it were up to me, we'd be playing a double header. Today- Texas in the morning and USC tonight.” - Joe Pa

“I love freshmen!” – Jack

Welcome to Miami

I generally hate New Years... I think it's a terribly depressing holiday and I always end up staying home with nothing exciting to do. This year, Penn State made my holiday season something special by securing a bid in the BCS Orange Bowl in Miami, FL. The Zombie Nation moved south! Thirty-three, in particular, moved into the Yerkes residence for a week.

Doug and I caught a flight out from Baltimore late afternoon on New Years Eve... we arrived in Miami at 11 pm. Kim (Caitlin's mom) picked us up at the airport and drove us to South Beach, where we met up with Cait and a dozen of the PSU crew that had already arrived. 12 down... 21 more to arrive! We celebrated life, happiness, college degrees from an amazing institution and the arrival of the new year on South Beach and later crashed in the hotel suite we rented on Ocean Drive. We spent the next day soaking in the warm Florida sunshine on the beach and then headed back to Cait's house to settle in with all the new arrivals. It was like living in a fraternity for a week - 10 air mattresses on the floor... people occupying every free inch of floor space, couch space, pool table space, etc. It was wonderful. Nobody complained about sleeping 2 feet from a stranger or having to take showers at odd times during the day (because of only having 3 showers for 30 people). There was a lot of positive energy with this group.

In many ways, the event was like summer camp (minus the beer). We coordinated group meals and group drinking sessions (all in all, we drank 3 kegs and 50 cases of beer, I've been told... or maybe the numbers keep growing as the legend always does). We partied it up like only Penn Staters know how to.

The day before the game, we partied both at the official PSU pep rally and on the beach for the official Orange Bowl Beach Bash (which PSU outnumbered FSU 9-to-1) and sang fight songs and did cheers and drank to Doug's fantastic power hour. It felt like freshman year all over again, minus the bitchy friends.

Then there was the tandem slip-n-slide... you can only imagine what fun 20-somethings can have with that.

The tailgate at the bowl game was an all-day affair (11 AM to 7 PM) and was fantastic - 80 degree weather, bikinis, amazing food, beer pong and good friends. We had one point of fear when we prematurely kicked our keg of cheap Haitian beer - but Curtis' friend came to the rescue. He actually bartered a game ticket with another tailgate to get us another keg - Yuengling, nonetheless. Another kid walked 3 miles to buy beer at the nearest convenience store and carried it back to the tailgate- 3 cases of it!

The game was awesome even though PSU nearly gave us all heart attacks. But we won and all was right with the world.

Definitely the party of the year and a killer way to start off 2006. I'll never forget this trip.