The teams all dressed up and some even went farther than that... The Top Dogs team made a theme song (Canus Maximus). I wish I could remember all the words, but there was something in there about being grossly overpaid... it was hilarious!
Our team wore togas, white face paint and headbands/wristbands. Here is a team photo before the games when we were all getting ready:
The events again are (with descriptions now that I actually know what they are):
(1) Feats of strength: turns out this was two events (a) how many pieces of paper can you staple together successfully and (b) how many pieces of paper can you 3-hole punch all the way through.
(2) Down the hatch: a pizza eating contest where 3 people had to finish a small Giordanos pizza. They were given two boxes and a "hurl bin" just to freak them out at the beginning though. Turns out that one of the interns actually did end up using the hurl bin. Yep, poor girl. In front of the entire RLOB, although we all thought she was just spitting out the food because her team didn't win, but talking to her later she said she really did boot.
(3) Triviapalooza: this was broken into (a) lists and (b) the price is right. The lists were things like 'cities where the olympics have been held' and the teams kept listing cities until no one was left. The price is right was just a question with a numerical answer that you had to come the closest to without going over. The MM team kicked butt at this.
(4) Closest to the pin: throwing a tennis ball at a Baci lunch box; whoever was closest won. Matt and Kelly were the MM team members on this event and they did awesome!
(5) Dodgeball: this was actually dodge dropping the ball and you had to throw a tennis ball between 3 teammates for 2 minutes and whoever had the most tosses won. If you dropped it, you lost 5 points. Our team sucked at this for some reason and were eliminated in the first round.
(6) How fast can you... : this is the event I was signed up for with Tracy. We both had been saying before during the trivia event how we hated trivia and we are glad we weren't signed up for that event. Well, lucky us, this event wasn't just trivia, it was rapid-fire trivia! It's so hard to think of answers to the easiest questions when you are on the spot. Of course, I totally embarrassed myself by answering that a trapezoid had 7 sides... all in front of a room full of actuaries. Really? 7 is what I come up with? I was even picturing a trapezoid in my head and it had 4 sides... where did 7 come from? Well, it gets better... another one of my questions was 'what suit in cards can come before sandwich' and some other words. I could not think of 'club' and totally froze and said 'heart'. Again, really??? A 'heart sandwich'... who says that? Oh well, between Tracy and I, we were able to answer enough questions to beat the other teams and get the gold medal. Speaking of the medals, they had gold, silver and bronze medals that were engraved! Here's a pic of mine:
(7) TP triathlon: I was also in this event, which was set up so that the people in the lead at the end of the other events got a head start and then whoever won this event was the overall winner of the day. Since our MM team was first, we got a 2 second lead (yeah, big deal, right?!?). Well, you start off in an office chair and then roll around the room, stop to shoot wads of paper in a recycling bin, then roll back to your team, who then have to sing a song out loud and then it goes on to the next person. We got a bad start even with the 2 second lead... we ended up totally losing. The Young Guns lapped us for the win. What a bummer.
Overall, it was a lot of fun! And a great send-off for our interns.
We went to Dave & Busters afterwards for some drinks and games. I got enough tickets for a wine opener... we haven't tried it out yet to see if it actually works.
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