Travel Stories

[T967]

We went to florida last year in vans. Eight of us in each. Our van was the coolest because we had all the gizzmos. Like a tv and a full n64 set-up. Any ways we were playing mario cart at about 2 in the morning and one of my friends little viewing area showed him just bouncing off the side of the track over and over again. Just so happens he had fallen asleep at the wheel! There he was, in the middle of a heated race, drooling and snoring against the window of the van.
oh... and then there was daytona but thats a "different" story.

[twistedboi03]

When we flew to nationals, we were in Port Columbus at the food court, I had my carry on and a white box full of buttons and things of that sort. (THis was before all of the terriorist stuff so we could still take them on to the plane.) SO when it was time to start to board I couldnt find the box. SO then i remembered it was in the food court...so i ran through the airport and me and my friend TJ see the white unmarked box on a table with no one around it. There was a 50 ft radius around the box... It was sooo funny. I couldnt believe the airport security didnt freak out or something.. it had to of been there a good 30 mins.
:D

[Ashley Weed]

I am not forunate enough to be able to fly, so I have to drive to all of the competitions. Anyways, my freshman year, my team flew to Orlando. On the way back, due to a large amount of flights going out, the plane was delayed. They were supposed to have a lay-over in Charlotte, however, due to the plane delay in Orlando, they missed the connection in Charlotte. The whole way back I kept thinking that the team was already home. Well actually I returned to school that Tuesday, and the team was nowhere to be found. They couldn't get another flight out for over 24 hours, so the airline company had to put 40-50 people in a fancy suite hotel with only 2 people per room!:p

[Alexander McGee]

those are pretty funny. well, on our way to orlando last year (post sept 11, keep in mind), we were going through security, and all of us made it out ok, and we were waiting for the advisors and gm executives to get through. well, one of our advisors, Mrs. Garver, got taken aside for a random baggage check. Well, the guy was like, "is there anything in here that i should know about?" and she got all offended, and was like, this is a huge waste of people's time. well, he then pulls out a (im not kidding) 15 inch pair of scissors, holds them like a dagger, and asks, "do these belong to you ma'am?" hahaha, its was the funniest look on her face. shes lucky that she got to come with us!

[D.J. Fluck]

Nationals 2002 - while we were sitting in the airport, a bird was flying inside the terminal, and it flew up on the border of the wall and dome window ceiling where the heater/AC was. The only thing we saw of the bird after it flew there was a few feathers falling to the ground.

Nationals 2001- Our bus never showed to take us to the Indianapolis Airport. So parents, teachers and engineers all took their cars and we drove down seperately.

On the way back our bus was late picking us up from the all star. We arrived at the airport 30 minutes before our flight was scheduled to take off. Luckily the airport was pretty empty, and security was still light so we made it to the terminal just as first call for boarding came.

Nationals 2000- the Final 4 of college basketball was in Indianapolis that year so we left the day after the championship game. For some reason I was 15 rows up from the next nearest person on our team, but I sat next to the referee of the championship game. He sat next to a member of the press. Well, the whole way down to Orlando they argued and argued about calls he made, didnt make, or should have made. It was quite hard to sleep, but very entertaining :)

[Yan Wang]

In Canada, we took some screwdrivers and a needlenose pliers and worked our way around that metal plate that blocks the back of hotel TVs. We then commenced to hook up an N64 along with our laptop with tons of music and games.

I went back to that hotel a month later for a music department trip. I attempted the same thing with the screwdriver and ended up pulling out the cable connection and breaking the thing that connected it to it. I ended up taping it to the TV badly with some bandages and we had static most of the time. That and the fact the bathroom flooded.

[Shelley_delphi chick]

I don't think that anyone can top my hotel experience at the Holiday Inn Express in Canada. I was awakened at around 6 somethingish in the morning to a not so nice fire alarm. The other two girls in my room were still sleeping as was I after I picked the phone up and said we were all up and rolled back over. This fire alarm goes off and we're still in bed asking eachother whether or not we should go down stairs. I go there are doors slamming maybe we should go. I jumped outta bed not thinking anything of it and grabbed my yellow monkey robe and ran downstairs. There is lil short white girl in the middle of the lobby with a robe and a pair of Nike's on. I seriously felt stupid when everyone was already dressed and almost ready to leave. I felt like everyone was staring at my legs and then a guy asked me if I had any clothing on under my robe. To this day I still haven't answered that question when asked that!! :o

[sanddrag]

Originally posted by Shelley_delphi chick
This fire alarm goes off and we're still in bed asking eachother whether or not we should go down stairs. I go there are doors slamming maybe we should go.

Well, was there a fire or not?

[D.J. Fluck]

Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
Nationals 2000- the Final 4 of college basketball was in Indianapolis that year so we left the day after the championship game. For some reason I was 15 rows up from the next nearest person on our team, but I sat next to the referee of the championship game. He sat next to a member of the press. Well, the whole way down to Orlando they argued and argued about calls he made, didnt make, or should have made. It was quite hard to sleep, but very entertaining :)


Ohhh man your not going to believe this. Right now Im listening to ESPN Radio and they are talking to a member of the press who is talking about college basketball referees. He said "I had a fine conversation with the referee of the 2000 National Championship game on an airplane back to Orlando the night after the championships..." Heh I sat next to that guy and listened to quite a bit of that convo ;)

[Shelley_delphi chick]

Glade to report that there wasn't a fire, but the fire fighters came in and stormed the building. I was sitting there in my monkey robe!! Just wanted to remind ya'll of that!!

[MissInformation]

On the way back from Florida this past year, one of our brattier students (you know who you are!) overheard two college students talking about the beer they had in their carry on and trying to decide what to do with it. Well, said bratty student just said "You can give it to me." So they did. And there was our way underage bratty student with a soda box of beer, which he brought over to show me.

We just quietly disposed of the beer, but if we had more time before our flight, it would have been interesting to have made the brat turn in the beer to the officials at the airport. I'm sure he wouldn't have gotten in trouble other than a long lecture, which in the long run would have probably just gone in one bratty ear and out the other. Brat, brat brat!!! (it's a good thing I adore brats).

MissInformation

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[Evildoughgrl334]

Team 334' story is a sad on, so its the day of our flight for 2002 nats, sme of the team came to school and left after the first 4 classes the flight was 2:15 P.M. well a bunch of the guys got together and where planning to go to the airport together. I live near the airport so I went home took a quick shower, grabbed my things about to head out the door and the phone rings. So i decide to get it, and its our mentor and he was like ohh the trip has been cancelled. Now he likes to joke around so this was funny for about 3 mintues or until i realized he wasn't playing around. So what he later found out was that a few members made it to the airport a few others were on the road and some like me ready to leave, we weren't allowed to go because one freakin piece of paper wasn't signed b the super inted. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. OK i'm ok now, we considered going away since we had our tickets but then we realized the amount of #%#%#%#% we'd be in, when we got back. So for all of those people who went to 2002 NAt. that was our robot there without a team, just sitting there in itz crate sniff sniff.

[Madison]

Originally posted by Evildoughgrl334
Team 334' story is a sad on, so its the day of our flight for 2002 nats, sme of the team came to school and left after the first 4 classes the flight was 2:15 P.M. well a bunch of the guys got together and where planning to go to the airport together. I live near the airport so I went home took a quick shower, grabbed my things about to head out the door and the phone rings. So i decide to get it, and its our mentor and he was like ohh the trip has been cancelled. Now he likes to joke around so this was funny for about 3 mintues or until i realized he wasn't playing around. So what he later found out was that a few members made it to the airport a few others were on the road and some like me ready to leave, we weren't allowed to go because one freakin piece of paper wasn't signed b the super inted. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. OK i'm ok now, we considered going away since we had our tickets but then we realized the amount of #%#%#%#% we'd be in, when we got back. So for all of those people who went to 2002 NAt. that was our robot there without a team, just sitting there in itz crate sniff sniff.

I would've gone anyway. But, I'm a troublemaker.

[jonathan lall]

Originally posted by Shelley_delphi chick
Glade to report that there wasn't a fire, but the fire fighters came in and stormed the building. I was sitting there in my monkey robe!! Just wanted to remind ya'll of that!!

I see you like telling that story... I just finished reading it on the Canadian Regional site :)

[Shelley_delphi chick]

Actually I'm alittle embarrassed by the whole situation. My whole team still laughs about it and makes fun of me. It's rather embarrassing sitting in the middle of a hotel lobby in a yellow monkey robe in front of bunches of guys, who you think are starring at your legs?!? Anyone that was there...... were you?? I surly hope not!! I just thought that other people would look at their silly stories and notice that there always could be wrose!! All and how would you like it if people asked you if you were wearing clothing under your robe. I turned all red and ran up stairs as soon as they said we could, after we got our key because we locked ourseleves outta our room!!

[Mimi Brown]

Regionals 2001: WMR:
1) Having about 20 too many boys in the hot tub, so we open up the window to outside and fog up the entire room
2) Videotaping Erie grabbing some guy's mullet
3) Watching the fat guy dance on the balcony
4)Making coffee in the hotel room

Nats 2001:
1) Watching Swary and Blake lure some duck into their room with kit kat bites and then get it drunk on cough syrup
2) *Accidentally* shutting off the ride thing at the Living Seas exhibit
3)Watching Philip recite Macbeth passages backwards in the airport

Kokomo kickoff, 2002:
1) The entire road trip there
2) Watching Will buy cologne out of the mens bathroom in a gas station
3)Staying up all night and trashing our room
4) Hanging out with the boys from team 93, playing their playstation, watching Fast And The Furious, and drinking an entire 2 liter in an hour

Regionals 2002: WMR:
1) Coffee for breakfast
2) Gettting the handicapped room and not realizing it until the last day
3) Getting kicked out of the hot tub for having waaaaaaay too many people in it
4) Sneaking boys into the hotel
5) Finding a two story Kohls
6) The entire wrap party

National 2002:
1) Falling asleep with the phone in my hand after answering the wake up call
2) ordering papa johns pizza around 1 am every night
3) Having waaay too many pople in our hotel room
4) Waking up and finding random junk outside of our room
5) Being late to night time check in every time

There are waaaay tooo many others to list

[Gadget470]

this was 2 years ago.

For the West Michigan regional the hotel we stayed at had a free coffee machine in the lobby. One of those dealies where you choose Regular, DeCaf, 50/50, Espresso, Hot Chocolate.

I had more Espresso's than I can remember and each time I had less and less clothes on. (There is a picture of me in just my pants, I hope that's as far as I went.. The picture itself is not to flattering, I'm flexing in front of the room window with a very strange grin)

Well, that whole weekend I got a 1/2 hour of sleep, which was at the competition on practice day. Each night I did something different to the girl's room down the hall, and in true FIRST fashion, always involved duct tape. I don't remember which team it was but someone was handing out red duct tape (Thank You!).

One night when I heard the 'Paperboy' come around, I got up and collected a few of the newspapers and forced them under the door. Then I duct tape'd the door with a few big X's. I knew what time the girls were getting up so I sat there with a video camera watching their door. When Jenn opened it all I heard was "What the [expletive deleted]" then Steph "What now?" Jenn, still half-asleep, tried to rip off one of the X's and fell into the other one. The next night I duct tape'd their newspaper to the carpet in front of their door. They didn't even try to pick up the paper so I guess a hotel attendant had to struggle with it.


That's my story, not as fun as most I know, but bleh.

[Gadget470]

Thought of another one that isnt a competition travel story.. but it involved traveling.

Most of the team from 247 came down to our annual (hopefully for them) training seminar at SMC. (By the by, Dave Johnson, Thanks a lot for these, they've been more helpful than you may think). Anyhoodle, we all meet at our classroom to go down there and Chris asks "Anyone else bring their card?" a general feeling of "What card?" came over those around him. So he pulls out his FIRST-SME card. Many inside jokes through the day somehow all stemmed from this. Some where mean in hindsight but we all had a good laugh and so did he.

[Lauren Hafford]

159 has a team member that is the funniest man alive. He's just the MAN! We'll call him Joe for this post :-). So Joe was staying in a room with Jesse and Tyson at Nats 2002 and he went into the bathroom and stayed...for a while. Anyway, Jesse asks him if he flushed and Joe said yea, but when they got back that evening and Jesse went to go pee, he yelled, "Joe! I thought you flushed!!!!" Joe yelled back, "It's not my fault! It's like trying to flush a small alligator!!!"
our team is psycho.......:-)
lauren

[Cory]

Originally posted by Lauren Hafford
159 has a team member that is the funniest man alive. He's just the MAN! We'll call him Joe for this post :-). So Joe was staying in a room with Jesse and Tyson at Nats 2002 and he went into the bathroom and stayed...for a while. Anyway, Jesse asks him if he flushed and Joe said yea, but when they got back that evening and Jesse went to go pee, he yelled, "Joe! I thought you flushed!!!!" Joe yelled back, "It's not my fault! It's like trying to flush a small alligator!!!"
our team is psycho.......:-)
lauren

That was just gross :rolleyes:

[Shelley_delphi chick]

I thought I had heard spome of the grossiest things come out of my teams (ok, the guys on my team's) mouths!! That seriously tops everything I've heard..... Happy New Year!!

[Lauren Hafford]

it's not gross, it's just.....special :) !
anyway, we have fun.

lauren

[T967]

I know for a fact that more than 5 teams went to robotics competitions. Come on more people have something funny or stupid!

[tatsak42]

LAUREN NO! (btw, it's not me, but i didnt' need to remember that...)

hm... Dan got patted down in the airport twice in a row. *beep* oh come over here. *pat down* okay you're good. (goes over and gets suitcase thing) "oh is that yours? you'll have to take the vcr out. (empties suitcase, vcr is at bottom) *pat down #2* okay you can go (30 minutes later...)

[sanddrag]

Can't really think of much. At the end of a match (LA) our robot was locked on to a goal and we couldn't get it off. The FIRST staff started yelling "We have a schedule to keep here. You have 15 seconds to get your robot off the field." We took so long trying to get it off that the FIRST staff just gave up waiting and like 6 of us and them lifted the robot and goal together entirely off the field and they brought in a replacement goal.

Oh, and coming back home from LA we had the robot in it's six foot tall crate on top of a VW bus/truck thing. It was rather scary being like 12 feet tall overall, but somehow it made it back alright.

[DanLevin247]

Originally posted by Gadget470
One night when I heard the 'Paperboy' come around, I got up and collected a few of the newspapers and forced them under the door. Then I duct tape'd the door with a few big X's. I knew what time the girls were getting up so I sat there with a video camera watching their door. When Jenn opened it all I heard was "What the [expletive deleted]" then Steph "What now?" Jenn, still half-asleep, tried to rip off one of the X's and fell into the other one. The next night I duct tape'd their newspaper to the carpet in front of their door. They didn't even try to pick up the paper so I guess a hotel attendant had to struggle with it.
That's my story, not as fun as most I know, but bleh. Thought of another one that isnt a competition travel story.. but it involved traveling.............Most of the team from 247 came down to our annual (hopefully for them) training seminar at SMC. (By the by, Dave Johnson, Thanks a lot for these, they've been more helpful than you may think). Anyhoodle, we all meet at our classroom to go down there and Chris asks "Anyone else bring their card?" a general feeling of "What card?" came over those around him. So he pulls out his FIRST-SME card. Many inside jokes through the day somehow all stemmed from this. Some where mean in hindsight but we all had a good laugh and so did he.



Although I was busy with back surgery 2 years ago, and didn't end up at WMR, that does sound like a very "Jenn" think to do. As for Chris' slip up with the SME card....I'll never forget it.....

Chris..."so, were we supposed to bring these?" *takes his SME card out, still around his neck, but previously under his shirt*

Gadget: "SMC....not SME"

Me: *begins to laugh*

Chris: *Looks Puzzled* "Oh" *puts card back under shirt*



As for my personal travel story, Cleveland 2002.

A team mate and myself were very bored during the day of pratice rounds, so we decided to make a game out of the contents of our pockets. "Nickel Races" were born. Two players, each with a nickel in the crook of their index finger, stand at a line in the tile of the outer walkway of the venue. On "go" each player throws their nickel in a bowling fashion, and chases it. There is no winner, although it's cool if your nickel goes further, but we must have ran around the stadium about 30 times, until tradgedy struck...both of our nickels rolled into the women's restroom.

[Cory]

Originally posted by tatsak42
LAUREN NO! (btw, it's not me, but i didnt' need to remember that...)

hm... Dan got patted down in the airport twice in a row. *beep* oh come over here. *pat down* okay you're good. (goes over and gets suitcase thing) "oh is that yours? you'll have to take the vcr out. (empties suitcase, vcr is at bottom) *pat down #2* okay you can go (30 minutes later...)

Every time we got on a plane to and from Florida last year, I was searched (4x in total). I tired quickly of taking my shoes off and opening my backpack.

On one flight, the attendants asked a really really tall guy on our team to remove his legs from the aisle before takeoff. Needless to say, he couldnt fit with his legs in front og his seat, even with it reclined all the way. They tried to relocate him to the exit row (more legroom), but he was too young, so they had to kick some people out of the first row, just so his feet would fit:D

(Here is why i dislike Delta)
going from Atlanta to Orlando, i was just sitting down, and the flight attendant came up and asked me what I wanted. I was really confused, and responded that I didnt want anything. She then proceeded to tell me very rudely that I should not play with the call button, that it was something she expected out of three year olds, not people of my age. Well, I had been flying for five hours, sitting in an airport at like 4 in the morning, felt sick from the air on the plane, so this really made me mad.

gah /me doesnt like Delta much

Cory

[illumanat'i]

flying to nats 2002:
really annoying kid on our team refuses to check his bag.... when we go through the metal detectors (post sept 11) his labtop sets off the alarms... we're stuck waiting because they have to check his computer, his shoes, his bag, and we just leave him there...

way back, some idiot puts a screw threw some paper hats in one of my teammate's bags.... stuck waiting for 10 min while they search and search and search for the source of the beep... i come over, look inside, pull out the screw (it was right there on the top) and go "is that it?"

regionals, same year:
someone in the hotel room before us takes a huge crap, my roommate (same annoying kid) flushes the toilet and the room is flooded, i mean really flooded... annoying kid calls the hotel, asks them to fix it, is rude, yells, is annoying... someone comes and turns the knob behind toilets that turns off the water.... turns out the annoying kid knew about it all along. his reasoning was, and i quote "its their job to fix it" while the room is filling with some dirty $@#$@#$@# water

:confused: what kind of logic is that?

[Cory]

Originally posted by illumanat'i
regionals, same year:
someone in the hotel room before us takes a huge crap, my roommate (same annoying kid) flushes the toilet and the room is flooded, i mean really flooded... annoying kid calls the hotel, asks them to fix it, is rude, yells, is annoying... someone comes and turns the knob behind toilets that turns off the water.... turns out the annoying kid knew about it all along. his reasoning was, and i quote "its their job to fix it" while the room is filling with some dirty $@#$@#$@# water

:confused: what kind of logic is that?
That was quite a bit more detail than I would have liked...:rolleyes:

Cory

[BBFIRSTCHICK]

On the way back down from Nationals to Miami it was around 7pm and we were already running late....half of us were dead asleep and the other half watching whatever movie they had playing! our bus driver had been driving like a bat out of hell.....when all of the sudden the bus like takes a swerve off the road and we all get sent flying to one side of the bus..and we were like "what in the world just happend".... Throughout the rest of the bus ride everyone was holding on to dear life! it was funny:D

[Nick Seidl]

Three good travel stories:

1) Regionals: Out engineers had to drive because we took company owned vans. They insisted on playing trucker with their CB radios, and drove around with a Hooters bobblehead doll on the dashboard.

2) Nationals: Our resident Chinese native didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking about what should and should not go into a carry on bag. It's amazing what kind of a fuss a foreign kid with a stash of screwdrivers and some fighter jet magazines can cause in an airport.

3) Missions to the GM Tech Center: Our short bus in a drag race on I-696 against a short bus from the YMCA.

I could add a few Model UN stories too, but most of you probably don't want to hear about that (hint: porn in the USA Today box at Midway Airport)

[Cory]

Originally posted by BBFIRSTCHICK
On the way back down from Nationals to Miami it was around 7pm and we were already running late....half of us were dead asleep and the other half watching whatever movie they had playing! our bus driver had been driving like a bat out of hell.....when all of the sudden the bus like takes a swerve off the road and we all get sent flying to one side of the bus..and we were like "what in the world just happend".... Throughout the rest of the bus ride everyone was holding on to dear life! it was funny:D

So what happened anyways? Driver fall asleep?

Cory

[BBFIRSTCHICK]

It was in 2001, the KSC regional and my team mate Danny and I were running around and chasing each other with silly string. I had just been around the pool area so my socks were soaking wet.......I had been chasing him and when I caught up to him I lunged at him with the bottle of silly string. He moved and my foot slide on the tile and went straight under the air condition vent that was in the hall way....I was in soooooo much pain afterwards...Never wear wet socks while running around on tile trying to chase someone.

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by Shelley_delphi chick
Actually I'm alittle embarrassed by the whole situation. My whole team still laughs about it and makes fun of me. It's rather embarrassing sitting in the middle of a hotel lobby in a yellow monkey robe in front of bunches of guys, who you think are starring at your legs?!? Anyone that was there...... were you?? I surly hope not!! I just thought that other people would look at their silly stories and notice that there always could be wrose!! All and how would you like it if people asked you if you were wearing clothing under your robe. I turned all red and ran up stairs as soon as they said we could, after we got our key because we locked ourseleves outta our room!!

Oh wow...i feel sooo badly for you...I'll make sure to keep this post away from my team...some of them would be the kinds of people to ask you the question, regardless of if they were there...(YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)

[Sean_330]

One year our hotel was next to a busy (loud) fire station, under the flight path for an airport, and not in the nicest part of town so we heard police sirens all night. We learned the real meaning of "who needs sleep anyway."

[Macdaddy549]

We were at a rest stop in Whites Plain New York. All of the team was getting a bite to eat. Well my son went to the rest room. While he was in there we decided to get on the bus. Know one knew he went in there. Well the teacher who was counting heads counted wrong. As the bus pulled and proceded down the on ramp someone said "WHERE"S JIMMY". At that point I looked around fast and then out the window. Well there he was running after the bus 200 yards back. Well we all had a laugh and thank god we were not miles away. Hopefully that doesn't happen again.

Time will tell.

[Lora Knepper]

Mmmm...2001. I took a greyhound bus from Boston to New York City to meet up with a friend in FIRST...we then took another bus from NYC to Orlando.

This in itself wasn't strange... but anyone who's gone a distance on a greyhound knows what a lession in sociology it can be! Strange bus driver quirks, dangerous parts of town to stop in... the random truck stops in backwater towns in the South....

30 hours later, we got picked up at the Orlando station by the mother of a friend on team 168. Team 168 was nice enough to room me - a total stranger - with them so I could attend Nationals.

Definately the most memorable trip to Nats I ever had!

~ l

[Josh Fritsch]

Ok ok our story takes the cake over everyone else's. How should i start? Well we were on our charter bus 2 years ago comming from the Hartford Connecticut regional. Most all of us were sleeping on the because it was a long trip for us to go back to michigan and it was about 2 in the morning. Ok, now it gets good, so were driving down I-75 and we all wake up at once to hear this horrible scraping noise along the side of the bus. When we looked out the window, we saw this old junker of a car with 3 wheels driving along the side of the bus. At first we all thought it was the most hilarious thing that we have ever seen in our life, wouldnt you? well after awhile, about 30 minutes of this constant noise it, he finally passed us, and none of us expected what would happen next. The car starts slowing down and trying to stop the bus. Whenever we would try and pass this guy he would block us and keep slowing down. He succeded in getting us to stop a few times, but our expert bus driver would just pass him again and this would start all over. By this time our team leader, Kyle Hughes, had called 911 to get some police to help us get rid of this idiot. The ironic thing about this call was that this guy had already called in to 911 and told them that our bus had sparks comming out of the back. Well we knew that nothing was wrong with the bus, and it seemed kind of suspicious to us so we didnt stop. A few minutes later, 5 squad cars had came to our rescue and started chasing this guy down, when he cut accross the median, right in the middle of I-75 and started going the opposite way. The police finally caught him and explained to us that he was trying to hijack our bus because he was running from the police. Our bus then got escorted to the Park and Ride where our parents waited for us. Needless to say it was a very interesting ride home, and will never be forgotten by the members of the team who experienced this. We had a great story to tell our parents and all our classmates on monday for school!!!:yikes:

[OneAngryDaisy]

Man, I have a tough act to follow... I'll make my case for the craziest story

Last year we went to the VCU regional- a 6 hour drive down.. We booked in the Holliday Inn (I believe)..

there was some athletic conference- the MEAC conference or something.. those guys sure knew how to have a fun time- I swear they stayed up all night, drinking and laughing and rapping in the hallways.. some guys were even drumming- on the walls! from what I heard, it was extremely loud and nobody could sleep- I fortunately missed this event..

also- did anyone at the VCU regional notice this- we were drving back from the gym one night when I noticed this enormous factory- it looked really old.. it had huge red letters that said- cookies and crackers.. however, the letters ers in crackers were burnt out, so it looked like this- cookies and crack.. we still laugh about that one

[Patrick Duffy]

I duno man, just driving with our old school sponsor Mr. Tab is about the worst experience ever. This wasnt to robotics, but to a programming competition. So me, Mark and Renji are in the car watching Rush Hour 2 on Marks laptop, when Mr. Tab decides its a great idea to watch it with us! So he starts swirving and crap. Wasn't very good hehe. Then he almost feel asleep while driving :rolleyes:

[Cipher X]

Oh yeah i remember that. God i swear he looked liek every 2 seconds and i almost thought we were gonna drive in to the ditch. we finally said you can see it when we get up there and made him look straight. and even better when we actually get there. He walks around lke a dang tourist with his bag and a map and we were still in florida. but it was funny to see a floridian be a tourist in florida.

Another interesting story same guy.. last year when we went to the NASA regional. we stayed in some hotel soo far from the actual competition and we go to a restaurant and he starts to hit on the waitress and he asks if he can get her ribs {when the waitress said that we have ribs sir} and then tries to eat the whole thing. Seriously this man is like a 120 pounds and i dont think he could finish a whole Burger King whopper. And it was funny the waitress kept spilling everybodys drinks.

Cipher X