June 27, 2011

Well here it is over a month later and the blog has been neglected.  What happened to my friends posting like I ask?  Really guys, it's not that hard to do.  Ok, I'm going to catch everyone up on the recent events and the fun we have all been having.  Now lets all go back in time to the night of

May 17th:   Nicole played her very last ever High School Band Concert.  She did GREAT and I'm glad I didn't miss out on all the fun our team was having winning 1st Place for us!  Way to go guys!

May 24th:  The guys played at Las Trojas, I don't think we won on this night. 

May 27th:  I know this isn't a normal thing to have in this blog, however, it's important to me...Nicole Graduated and now my job is complete...at least most of it.  I know some of you don't believe like me and it's okay, I love you guys anyways :)

May 30th:  Steve drove up to Arab to see the Henry Cho concert with all of us out here.  Talk about fun, I did miss the Trivia playing.  The concert was for a good cause, it went to benefit the Tornado Relief in this area.  Take a look into one of his shows: http://youtu.be/U7_3xxQXgFs

June 6th:  Made it back to Trivia at Las Trojas.  It's me, Steve, Mike & Owen.  We got all the half time question right and named the 5 Zoo's, however it wasn't enough to bring in the Win.  So tonight's winners were:  3rd place: "In 1st Place" with 70 something points and yes, that's their team name! 
2nd Place: Orange Poke-a-dots with 88 points.  And 1st place went to a new team tonight:  Baby Monkey's with 90 points. 

June 14th:  It's our famous 4 playing again.  We started out with a perfect score and by half time we were in the running.  In all my notes, the only thing that really stands out is the "flash point" which was really "Fire Point" I think.  No matter, we missed it.  So it was a little set back.  We hung in there and kept going to pull off a 1st Place win!!!  Followed closely by "Baby Monkey" and "Insert Name Here".  So there you have it, another win for the team!

June 20th:  We all decided to head over to the Smoke House at Bridge Street to give it a try over there.  Tonight was again our 4 main team members.  Lisa and Barbra were our Hosts and a fine team they are!  We started off strong and held the momentum with one question after another!  10 teams are playing for only 3 prizes and it's going well.  We made it all the way to the final Question on Islands and we bet the top 20 points, giving us the Grand Total of 97 points for what we thought would surely be the win....It's a Tie!  So now we gear up our brains while Mike & Owen run numbers and we all toss them back and forth to come up with our answer for this question:  How many glasses of Milk does 1 cow produce in a life time?

BTW, the other team we were competing with is "Paradox", pictured here. 

I'm going to have to come back to that story soon.  It's time to move on to the next week now :) 

Only kidding, here is the fact answer:  The average dairy cow produces 22.5 quarts (60lbs) or 90 glasses of milk a day, 1,500 gallons or 16,000 glasses of milk a year, and 18,750 gallons or 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.  Our guess was a bit off, but we were the closest team to it, so we Won!
With all the stress related to having to really work to win, I missed who took 3rd place!  I know that we won 1st Place and that made my night almost as bright as the sun that was blinding me at the beginning of the game!

Now where was I?  I started reliving the moment and got all hyped up.  Oh yes, I was up to the very next night.  Plan A was that I would be working, that didn't pan out right, so we ended up going to Las Trojas for Trivia...How dare we!

June 21st:  Our team tonight is, Steve, myself, Amanda, Ethan & Jessica (pictured above).  This is the first time that Ethan or his mom have joined us.  We started off doing pretty good, mostly we spent a lot of time talking with each other and getting to know the 2 new peeps on the team.  After that, we tanked the Rapid round 5 and feel out of the winnings.  It was ok, after all, we have to share so the other teams keep coming back to play :)

The winning teams were:  3rd: "Doesn't matter to me"  2nd: Bad Idea and 1st Place went to: "Baby Monkey".  We are starting to see a lot of this new team.  Might be time to introduce ourselves and get to know them.

June 27th:  I'm almost embarrassed to even right that I killed the team by being so sure of the first answer and risking the max!  I was WRONG and lesson learned!  It was great to have Kate back with us tonight.

We played on trying to recover from the hole I put in the boat, however, it was just not happening for us tonight.  I was so far off my game tonight that I don't even know who won 1st place!  I know the "Pacers" were in the running and "Slow Motion".  I want to say that "Amber Sand" was the top winners, but don't hold me to it!  We ended the game with this question on Anatomy, "what is the Glabella"  Go ahead, look it up, trivia is over any ways! 
Great to see Stephine back with us again tonight.  Looking good girl :) Take that trip, those kids will be fine!

Until next time....