Okay so The trip to Rome is booked, half the trip to Florida is booked, the lake powell weekend is booked and school is only 3 weeks from over!!! I am so ready for summer! Turns out my kids are too.
On a more fun little side note: On Saturday the ROTC on Dixie College Campus had a little obstacle course. I thought is sounded super fun so I found 3 willing participants and we all went to try our best. I thought there would be 4 or 5 obstacles. I may have been a little off. So Delina, Kelly, Joy, and I get there and they hand us a map of the course. There were 13 obstacles! So come with me on the ride for this was such a funny adventure for us.
First was the rock climbing wall. Not too bad and we got through it pretty quickly. Then comes the one rope bridge. You know the kind you have to hang from upside-down and shimmey from one end to the other holding on with your feet and hands. But again, not too bad.
Then we come to the litter carry obstacle. K not our favorite obstacle. We are already a little tired and our arms are getting a bit floppy. So we have probably about 150 pounds to carry around the water fountain. I tell you it was such a long way around! So we get done with that and our arms are limp. We cant even hold them up in the jogging position to jog to the next obstacle. So we are running along all floppy arms and out of breath like..."come on we can do this".
So then we have to make 8 baskets with these small little basketballs. Which I'm proud to say we did successfully without anyone's arms actually falling of! They felt like they should at any second.
Then we have to do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups. Let me clarify before you get all wound up... it was to be split between the 4 of us. So 25 each. Or we could opt for one person to do more but they could do no more than 50. So when we first got there we did a little walk through of the course and Kelly and Delina were like, "oh 25 that's not too bad. We can totally do that no problem." I was like.. uhhh fat girls here. I think I could do maybe 3?
Well so we get there and pump through them pretty good but then we get to the sit-ups and Kelly was like oh my gosh funny!
After the sit-ups we get to move tires. Not car tires or even truck tires. Semi-truck tires is what we get. two of them. So in teams of two we have to move them about 100 yards down and 100 yards back. And we can't pick em up and roll em, we have to up-end them over and over till they pass both lines. Now please keep in mind our arms are screaming at us at this point in the game.
Then just to make sure we have not missed any possible bit of upper body muscle that has not yet been abused in some form or fashion we get to move water jugs, (about 25-30 pounds each) one on each arm, down and back. Kelly made it most of the way and we had to go help her a bit. But man we were a supportive team right!
K so then it is off to the mine field. We have to maneuver through a grid pattern and not get totally killed off. We managed this actually pretty quickly and then off the the low crawl!
The low crawl was it's own little piece of heaven! We had to low craw under these ropes with a weapon and to top it all off they went ahead and filled the pit with mud and about 4 inches of standing water! YESSSS! Joy was so annoyed there was no warning. She may have taken off her shoes and shirt. But she did put a different one one. Whew! After you get out of the muddy pit you then crawl through 2 covert things and then hand your weapon off. So I crawl through the mud (completely soaking my weapon don't worry) and then I look down the tunnel and throw my weapon to the other end and half crawl half midget step through the tunnel. I then repeat this process for the second tunnel. I thought man I'm glad this isn't for real cause the enemy would surely have heard that and gotten to my weapon way before me!
We then get to throw grenades! k not real ones.. I know right where's the fun in that. Well the pit we had to throw them into was a fair way off. So we all pick up a grenade and throw it at the pit. Mine goes in, so I throw another and it goes in too. I then turn to see the very best retarded girl throw from Delina that I have ever seen! She is like wow who gave me this thing? I better not throw anymore. So they give them to me and I hurry and lob them in. But is was so far away that I am having to Happy Gilmore them in.
Then we have to run from one end of the complex to the other. Please let me paint this picture of B - E- A- U - T - Y! There is Joy with a white (well used to be) t-shirt on that is hanging off her like a wet rag and no shoes (she didn't wanna get them ruined in the mud) Kelly and Delina are no better and they have their shoes still on. Then there is me with these capri sweat pants on that were cute before the bottom half was filled with water and little rocks. So we are jogging and with every step you hear us squishing and water is squirting out of the bottom of my capri sweats and running in little brown streaks down my shins. We were beautific!
We then have to shoot this gun and knock all the bottles down. So me and Joy just pick up the guns and start shooting. We were like whatever, hope there is plenty of ammo! ping ping ping ping! It was so fun!
We had so much fun and when all was said and done we got second place overall!!! We got trophies and everything! We laughed about it so hard. When I get the pictures I will post some. We were awesome!
See weekends can be super entertaining
