road trip

This previous weekend I spent with friends on Saint Simon's Island. We journeyed the 5 hours south so the fellows could attend the GA/FL game in Jacksonville. Bethany and I didn't want to pass up a free ride down to the island, so we hopped on board and made the trek down there for some fun and silliness. Friday night, Halloween, I was dismayed to not give out candy to the trick-or-treaters, however, hanging out downtown on the island proved fun indeed. We hung out at a local bar and witnessed a pretty humorous costume contest. In one of the following pictures you'll find Daniel, who dressed as Captain Crunch. He had made his costume entirely out of carpet foam, very inventive. We were saddened that he didn't take home the prize for the best costume, but he was in the top 5! Somehow or another Matt and I were coerced into resurrecting our Spartan Cheerleader cheers out on the sidewalk that night by Sarah, Daniel, Chad, Chris, and Bethany! We definitely drew a crowd of spectators. Afterwards we took a stroll on the pier. Chad and Daniel got very silly indeed, harassing couples in romantic embraces and climbing down to the fishers' perch and trying to scare people.
The weekend proved particularly difficult for Bethany and I because we are working on something I like to call "Operation Cut -out Coke." We are strongly attempting to rid diet coke and other caffeinated sodas from our diet. This led to a weekend of some grouchiness and headaches on our part. Poor Matt probably got the worst of it. You can see Bethany here trying to remedy-this by treating her self to a nice hunk of chocolate. The drive home was fun as usual with this crew. Matt chauffeured us while Bethany studied her analogies and Chad and I officiated our car time activities. We managed to play a plethora of car games to pass the time. We read the lateral thinking puzzles to each other, played boom truck, red dooley, the movie game, the alphabet game, and we even sang Row, Row, Row your boat in rounds.