Happy Happy Birthday to Me and J

all the planning for the Austin's World Justin Rules Challenge was worth it. I had such a great time planning and participating in the events. About two months ago j & i came up with our bday events over lunch in berkeley with our sister. She thought we were weird talking about it so early. anyway, here's what we did:

event 1: Tricycle Race

event 2: Potato Sack Race

event 3: Rock'em Sock'em Boppers

event 4: Spin the Batter

event 5: Human Wheel Barrel.

I have to thank my mom for making the superhero capes and the coordinating potato sacks and to everyone who made it out, I hope you guys had a good time. The first event was supposed to have 4 heats but half of tricycles broke after the 2nd heat (i either have to get sturdier tricycles or skinnier friends). Anyway, Ed trained for months for this event, piling up more than a 1000 miles on the bike, yet gets toasted by my cousin amy on the home stretch "burn some dust and eat my rubber, ed". Some of the other highlights from the other rounds: Rock'em Sock'em Boppers - an epic battle, instant classic in my book, between Ruban and my uncle greg. It's supposed to be best of 3, but they were all so close they fought an extra 3 rounds, uncle greg eventually knocked rubans block off. Potato Sack race - sam crying like a sissy and complaining that 2 other groups cheated when they clearly out-hopped his team. Spin the batter: pretty much everyone who spun on the bat correctly, then taking one step forward and then falling flat on their butts. The Final event, which was the ultimate highlight, incorporated all of the aforementioned events but each had a little twist to it, the funniest one being the "mamma bird feeds baby bird gummiworms" (J and Jason have perfect technique, don't you think?) That particular event was the demise to most of the teams and were disqualified from winning the gold star medal flanked with pix of justin and myself in our superhero outfit making dee-dee-dee faces. Each team member must be fed 3 gummiworms, a total of 12 per team. There were only two teams that did this correctly and the team to get back to headquarters fastest was Justin, Charla, Jason and Steph (Fefe) despite a 10 second disadvantage. Congrats to the season 1 champions of Austin's World Justin Rules Challenge.