GumbyOur float...
The freezing cold i had to sit through.
Taryn and me. This was Taryn's first experience with snow. Shes from California and had never seen snow before. Being her first snow, she was pretty excited about that icicle.
Blakley and Me
Our awesome t-shirts. I will try and get one in the dark later.
Me, Bailey, and Kat before the football game.
Downtown Golden, view from the float.
Taryn and Jennifer
Me, Blakley, Taryn, Jennifer, Whitney, Maura, and a Fiji boy.
The freezing cold I woke up too.
Step 1: Choose a theme. So, the obvious choice would have to do with space because we are nerds after all and most nerds love anything to do with space and/or NASA. Hence, you get the theme SPACEBLASTER!!!
Step 2: Make an awesome t-shirt.
But the best part about this t-shirt is that it is GLOW-IN-THE-DARK!!
Step 3: Make a float for the parade. Now, you can go all out and actually build something like most frats do and end up spending most of the night before the parade finishing it. Now, you make something that extravagant in the hopes of winning the float building prize. However, if you are from my sorority and team up with the frat FIJI you can just attach some stars to some PVC pipe and have people old rubber balls that looked like planets while everyone else waves and hands out candy. Normally you would think that this technique would not win at most things, however, you would be sadly mistaken. Because not only did our float make it to the top three and get to drive around at half time of the homecoming football game, we also won the whole contest. That’s right. We won. Our float was the bomb dot com. Our theme for the actual float was the “Space Race” and we had the Soviet Union going against the USA. We even had people with rocket ships riding around on the float.
The guys in the masks were planets… ONLY the planets and rocket ships were actually allowed on the float part and everyone else had to walk or ride in the bed of the truck if there was room.
Also, it is tradition for FIJI to have Gumby ride along on the float so of course we had a very large Gumby…
Step 4: Make sure that the day of homecoming is very cold and snowy. One of the pictures shows what I woke up to at 8 in the morning right before I was leaving to go sit outside for 4 hours. The other picture is of lovely Downtown Golden while riding on the float.
Step 5: Enjoy your first college homecoming experience. Homecoming was packed with all kinds of activities from powder-puff football, to float building, to concerts, to the actual football game. First on Friday night, there was a powder-puff football game with my sorority. Now I am athletic but let’s just say not everyone else is… there are a few others but it’s basically me and 3 other girls that even have a remote idea as to what they were doing. Needless to say, we lost. Next, there was a concert with the band called Singlefile. I guess they are kind of a big deal here in Colorado… Who knew? Not I. Anyways after the concert, I went and spent some quality time with some of the guys in Kappa Sigma, not to be confused with my sorority of Sigma Kappa. They were still working on their float (we were done hours ago) and so we just sat and talked while they worked hard drawing in huge bold letters with sharpie. After we were finished chatting (they were still building and would be into the wee hours of the morning) we decided to head back to the dorms. We watched just watched a movie with some of the guys on the first floor. We don’t really know the first floor guys that well so it was fun getting to know them. I ended up going to bed much later than I was hoping for (around 3 in the am). I had to be up at 8 for the parade. Fun stuff! Basically all of Saturday went like this: stand out in the cold, be in the parade at 10 for a total of about 30 minutes, stand outside some more. Go warm up and eat breakfast. Go to the football game and stand outside some more. Ride our float around at half time and then leave the game because you are sick of sitting outside in the cold. Take a nice long hot shower and a 3 hour nap. And this next part is going to show everyone how much of a nerd I really am. Keep in mind it is Saturday night. After my 3 hour nap, I went to dinner then did some physics homework. I worked on physics and calculus until about 9 pm. Yes I am a nerd. But after 9 I did go hang out with some girls from my hall and ended up watching SNL. It was a very lazy, relaxing night after all the crazy, cold events of homecoming.
And that is how Nerds do Homecoming. Doesn’t it look like a BLAST?!?
Love, Skip
P.S. Yesterday I overhead a casual conversation about physics. That’s when you really know what kind of school I am at.
Step 2: Make an awesome t-shirt.
But the best part about this t-shirt is that it is GLOW-IN-THE-DARK!!
Step 3: Make a float for the parade. Now, you can go all out and actually build something like most frats do and end up spending most of the night before the parade finishing it. Now, you make something that extravagant in the hopes of winning the float building prize. However, if you are from my sorority and team up with the frat FIJI you can just attach some stars to some PVC pipe and have people old rubber balls that looked like planets while everyone else waves and hands out candy. Normally you would think that this technique would not win at most things, however, you would be sadly mistaken. Because not only did our float make it to the top three and get to drive around at half time of the homecoming football game, we also won the whole contest. That’s right. We won. Our float was the bomb dot com. Our theme for the actual float was the “Space Race” and we had the Soviet Union going against the USA. We even had people with rocket ships riding around on the float.
The guys in the masks were planets… ONLY the planets and rocket ships were actually allowed on the float part and everyone else had to walk or ride in the bed of the truck if there was room.
Also, it is tradition for FIJI to have Gumby ride along on the float so of course we had a very large Gumby…
Step 4: Make sure that the day of homecoming is very cold and snowy. One of the pictures shows what I woke up to at 8 in the morning right before I was leaving to go sit outside for 4 hours. The other picture is of lovely Downtown Golden while riding on the float.
Step 5: Enjoy your first college homecoming experience. Homecoming was packed with all kinds of activities from powder-puff football, to float building, to concerts, to the actual football game. First on Friday night, there was a powder-puff football game with my sorority. Now I am athletic but let’s just say not everyone else is… there are a few others but it’s basically me and 3 other girls that even have a remote idea as to what they were doing. Needless to say, we lost. Next, there was a concert with the band called Singlefile. I guess they are kind of a big deal here in Colorado… Who knew? Not I. Anyways after the concert, I went and spent some quality time with some of the guys in Kappa Sigma, not to be confused with my sorority of Sigma Kappa. They were still working on their float (we were done hours ago) and so we just sat and talked while they worked hard drawing in huge bold letters with sharpie. After we were finished chatting (they were still building and would be into the wee hours of the morning) we decided to head back to the dorms. We watched just watched a movie with some of the guys on the first floor. We don’t really know the first floor guys that well so it was fun getting to know them. I ended up going to bed much later than I was hoping for (around 3 in the am). I had to be up at 8 for the parade. Fun stuff! Basically all of Saturday went like this: stand out in the cold, be in the parade at 10 for a total of about 30 minutes, stand outside some more. Go warm up and eat breakfast. Go to the football game and stand outside some more. Ride our float around at half time and then leave the game because you are sick of sitting outside in the cold. Take a nice long hot shower and a 3 hour nap. And this next part is going to show everyone how much of a nerd I really am. Keep in mind it is Saturday night. After my 3 hour nap, I went to dinner then did some physics homework. I worked on physics and calculus until about 9 pm. Yes I am a nerd. But after 9 I did go hang out with some girls from my hall and ended up watching SNL. It was a very lazy, relaxing night after all the crazy, cold events of homecoming.
And that is how Nerds do Homecoming. Doesn’t it look like a BLAST?!?
Love, Skip
P.S. Yesterday I overhead a casual conversation about physics. That’s when you really know what kind of school I am at.
A Space Race themed float. What a dream come true.
ReplyDeleteyou know i love that fiji float.
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