Hotel Fun

[dubious elise]

Last year, in St. Louis, we had a number of football players on our team and a fairly deep pool at the hotel. The goal was to try to launch kids from the shallow end of the pool nearly straight upwards, high enough that they could touch the ceiling (we figured that it was about 15 feet above the surface of the water) before they landed in the deep end. I was terrible at it because I couldn't time my jumps correctly, but we had a couple of pretty light guys that were amazing jumpers, one of whom came within mere inches of touching the ceiling! This became more of a "hands-on" lesson in physics rather than mindless entertainment
Note: I definitely do not reccommend even attempting this if you have a small or shallow pool, it is, in retrospect, very dangerous. Even though we took great care (if you can believe it) and no one was hurt, just remember that caution doesn't justify reckless activity.

[pickle]

At our hotel we had a team cookout thursday night where we hung out by the pool and threw each other into the really really cold pool...

Then we had a laser tag tournament, and beat up a stuffed racoon for fun. Ya, it was fun.

We had an 11 curfew, but if the sponsors liked you, and you weren't causing trouble, he didn't really care... plus he had 2 open heart surgeries over this summer and was always in bed well before curfew, so we didn't have much as far as enforcement went...

[JakeGallagher]

In 2003 when we went to Annapolis, we all switched rooms to play Playstation or watch movies, and a bunch of kids brought their XBoxes and played Halo (still everyone's addiction back then).

This year at nats, the chat kids have been planning on having a DDR, Halo 2, and maybe some other games tournament, which should prove fun.

[Alaina]

Team 814 likes to take hotel entertainment in a low-tech kind of way...We play Cranium!!!
It's the best board game ever.

[Conor Ryan]

after being in the final at buckeye, the whole team got on a bus and went to play laser tag. We played 3 matches, in the third match its was team play unlike the 2 earlier solo matches it was soo much fun. Like try shooting your advisor, you'll be suprised they are pretty good.

oh but that almost beat what we had in one of the hotel rooms for a couple of nights, we had a xbox, halo2, 4 controllers, and a projector! yeah it was awesome playing on a screen bigger than 8 of the hotel Tv's

[sirbleedsalot]

We played poker, ran around St. Louis and played in the shopping carts at Wall-mart, and made a lot a prank phone calls to other rooms. We also had a kid call 911 on accident, see he was reading the directions on the phone and it said dial 9 then 1 then the number. The problem was that he had a phone card and that added the last 1. As for curfews we did not have any. As long as we were on the bus in the morning to go to the arena and did not sleep there, the supervisors did not care.

[MikeGriffith]

Well the usual for team 845 is a good ole' hotel wrestling which usually involve spastic leaps of faith across beds, dirty punches, and whipping with towels. We also had a poker chip set and played about two hours of poker! I remember last year at nationals, team 343 let me stay with them and they got a projector and had a huge projection of "Family Guy" on the entire wall. All we had to do was close the curtains, and we had a personal movie theather! 845 also crammed many people into a hottub at UCF and at Palmetto crammed 7 people onto one bed, and slept on it the whole nite!!! It was great, except for a few people who snored .
-Mike Griffith

[Joe_P.]

i still say a roll of duct tape is dangerous in my hands and has endless possibilties for funy or funny moments.... just make sure that whoever you duct tape will be found soon

How many of you have tried breaking the rules and disturbing non-FIRSTers on a hotel on a military base?
I figure not many.
We hooked up and Ipod to the digtal input on a TV and played both the Ipod and the TV at max!!
Then we watched all 6 episodes of FLCL ( A Japanese mini-series ) and preank phone-called all our teams rooms. We were all running from room to room, it was soo funny to see a soldier in his pajamas curse us out!
Needless to say we kept quiet.
But then people start to fall asleep and things get quiet so you have to fix yourself a big mug of coffe, and buy lots of Red Bull.
By the way how many of you have stayed up all three days?
I have.

[TheShadow]

Wow, so, so many hotel stories, yet so few that are FIRST-appropriate. The nuttiest we got with Halo 2 was 1 TV with 4-player multi-player, and one with 2-player Co-Op going on. So far (this year we've only stayed in only 1 hotel), nothing overly crazy happened. Last year we did end up having a party in my room after dinner on saturday in Atlanta. Most of my team was in there, plus a guy from 322 whose name escapes me...if you are from 322 and remember that, please reply.

[sven]

The best time I had was when one of my team members disappered into M5(the one the elivator dosent go to) at the omni last year. Hey it didnt say employies only

The story has moved into leagend on our team.

[Bcahn836]

In Annapolis this year we went to the mall for dinner one night and we found a toy store. So we bought like 6 real looking rubber snakes. We got back to the hotel and put the snakes in the girls room. We put one in the bath tube, one in the sink, one in the toilet, one in each bed, thats 5 and the final one we put in someones luggage. It was soo great, the look on their faces was priceless. Yea we got yelled at though. Because the mentors kinda start to wonder whats going on when there is a whole lot of yelling and screaming going on.

[Will Hanashiro]

i've got a feeling that mighta been me from 322... i spent a quite of bit o' time with 66. but yea i hope my teachers dont read this... i really wasn't supposed to leave the hotel without a mentor last year. haha!

Originally Posted by TheShadow

Wow, so, so many hotel stories, yet so few that are FIRST-appropriate. The nuttiest we got with Halo 2 was 1 TV with 4-player multi-player, and one with 2-player Co-Op going on. So far (this year we've only stayed in only 1 hotel), nothing overly crazy happened. Last year we did end up having a party in my room after dinner on saturday in Atlanta. Most of my team was in there, plus a guy from 322 whose name escapes me...if you are from 322 and remember that, please reply.

[Bcahn836]

In New Hampshire this year, a few people on our team thought it would be funny to duct tape the safety captain's cot shut. We used, I mean they used nearly half a roll of duct tape and completely sealed the bed shut. Now if they could have only did that one with the safety captain in the bed. But that would just be wrong...

[Imprtssuc]

We trashed the hell out of our room. After our wrestling mathes "rumble", a kid "shovelhead" threw up all over the place. Some of my roommates closed the door in his face when he tried to get to the bathroom. I had quite a time explaining to the foreign hotel manager that a kid threw up.... I also had a roommate with a nasty foot odor problem, his toxic socks were a nice treat in the face.