Part 4: FOSTAHS!
(part of our gang that went on the cruise)
(part of our gang that went on the cruise)
Spring Braek 2010, my friends and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. The boat left from Baltimore, stopped once in Florida, then was intended to be 2 days in the Bahamas, followed by a return to Baltimore. Well...bad weather kept us out of Freeport on Day2...so 1 day in the Bahamas would have to suffice. Yet, we had about 4 days at sea before that. You get a little bit of cabin fever when you're on a boat for 4 days straight...no matter how big the boat is. So, our gang decided to spice it up. We always had a lot of fun getting dressed up for formal nights, going out to eat a classy dinner of seafood and rich desserts, drinking Foster's so often we were literally called "Fostahs" by the staff, and of course...dancing the night away in Beauties, the on-board club. We called it Biddies, of course, and we pretty much always arrived too early, and so we'd all go to the dance floor, dance Emily and Heidi and Anne into a wall, and generally just have a good time making fools of ourselves.
So, we obviously had to make the fun by ourselves while we were stuck at sea for days and days. One of our best ways was so incredibly simple. We wore bathrobes. Every morning, we got a huge breakfast delivered to our room. Chris, Christian, and I roomed together. Heidi, Annie, and Em were 2 doors down. Doug, Stud, Colin, and Jared were a few floors up. So, Chris and Christian and I got up, ate our giant breakfast, poured a few cups of coffee to go, and called the guys. We told them to wear their bathrobes, and we met up on the upper decks. We all just walked around in our robes, drinking coffee from our mugs, on the deck as we talked and joked and looked out into the ocean. People we jealous. People were especially jealous of Doug's attire because he made his belt his orange belt from his karate class. Awesome. We even met a few people later on that day from Penn State, as we chilled with them in the hot tub, and they commented that we were the "bathrobe guys" from that morning. Proof of how awesome we are.
So, we obviously had to make the fun by ourselves while we were stuck at sea for days and days. One of our best ways was so incredibly simple. We wore bathrobes. Every morning, we got a huge breakfast delivered to our room. Chris, Christian, and I roomed together. Heidi, Annie, and Em were 2 doors down. Doug, Stud, Colin, and Jared were a few floors up. So, Chris and Christian and I got up, ate our giant breakfast, poured a few cups of coffee to go, and called the guys. We told them to wear their bathrobes, and we met up on the upper decks. We all just walked around in our robes, drinking coffee from our mugs, on the deck as we talked and joked and looked out into the ocean. People we jealous. People were especially jealous of Doug's attire because he made his belt his orange belt from his karate class. Awesome. We even met a few people later on that day from Penn State, as we chilled with them in the hot tub, and they commented that we were the "bathrobe guys" from that morning. Proof of how awesome we are.
End of Part 4: FOSTAHS!
Part 5: Our Living Room
At the BatCave house, our living room was legendary. It was full of awesome things, including the black flowery undergarment mentioned in the Igloo post. It had 2 large couches, 2 large chairs, then the usual coffee table and tv. Then, near the fireplace that we weren't allowed to use...there was the epic table. It was constructed by the Gundlach men, the summer before our junior year. It was dozens of neon/highlighter-water filled Corona bottles, arranged in rows, visible through clear plexiglass. In the middle of the table, where both sides of the Corona bottles met...you had the JMU logo, complete with Duke Dog. Right over the table, placed upon the wall as a beacon of our house...was a poster of the Bat Symbol. Along the other walls were several other posters: a poster from almost every JMU sports team, a few science/nerdy ones supplied by Christian, a few movie posters, 1 that advertised a yard sale, and even a large banner advertising tomatoes that Chris got from Texas. In the corner was a parking sign, saying commuter parking in the rear. A small poster advertising a local bar's happy hour hung over the fireplace, and a few more political posters hung up too. We had a Chinese straw hat. We had a GMC truck grill. We had a Verizon wireless sign. We had a large orange cone. We had home plate. We had a shelf stocked full of empty bottles...literally hundreds of bottles, each one different...which we had collected over time. We even had a few champagne bottles that we popped when we found out Obama won. We had a mangled piece of metal from an accident sitting over the fireplace too. Hanging from one of the lights on the wall was a toilet seat. On the walls, pinned up nicely, we had multiple ladles. That was our thing...don't ask. So...our living room just had a lot of junk in it to the average person...but to us...it was all treasure that we had accumulated ourselves and had added to make that house OURS.
If you'd like to read a bit more about the old BatCave house, you can reference my first blog post ever, here. See you tomorrow my friends!
End of Part 5: Our Living Room
If you'd like to read a bit more about the old BatCave house, you can reference my first blog post ever, here. See you tomorrow my friends!
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