Sports Day OlyMPics 2008

Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, we had our own OlyMPics once again that was a Team versus Team Olimpiada! Our fingers were crossed all week for no rain, and sure enough, we had sunshine. We headed out back a little early to enjoy a few frosty beverages before boarding the Magical White Mysery Bus to the Terenure Rugby club where we did the Rugby all summer. The Sport and Social committee, moi and 5 others, split everyone into five team of six representing each of our own office directors. The six of us on the committee were to fill in the gaps where needed on each team. I was hoping to get out of competing, since I am so ridiculously competitive at times.

The teams competed in death defying matches testing speed, strength, stamina, coordination, balance, and endurance abilities. First up was the Egg and Spoon Dash. Sean headed up our team (The Hussey Hustlers) in this match and came in an impressive second. Next was the boot toss with Michael coming in second. Karen in the sack race (the bouncy hoppers did not come on time so the sack race was the recycle bags) got another impressive second. At this time we headed indoors for the rest of the events. One of the other girls in the office got our team a third in the hoola hooping, and Ruth got another second in the Barbell Endurance Hold. There was a complicated point system going and Team Hussey ended up as one of the top three contenders. Since Ross dropped out at the last minute, and Ania would not do the event, I did step in for my team to do Twister!

Now rewind to the day before where Karen and I gathered bottle of Malibu Rum and Vodka to make Jello-shots. For each of the colours of Twister; yellow, green, blue and red, we made a corresponding shot. Jello here is not a little powder, no, it is some strange rubbery gel mass that you have to melt in boiling water. Now back to the main event....

With the box full of jelly shots (as they are called here) we were ready to begin. Claire represented O'Callaghan Contendors, I was Hussey Hustlers and Catherine (Skinney) was for the Smith Smiters. When Niall spun the Twister arrow, if it landed on green we had to take a green jelly shot, if it landed on red, it ws a red jelly shot and so on. Needless to say, we got quite hammered but I kept my head and as Clarie fell over, Skinney celebrated brining her hand off the mat, thus I won out as victorious. Team Hussey won gold in the OlyMPics! I tried to be imparsial, but I do like to win. All of the winners got their jelly shots as well.

As we dug into our burgers, the sun began to set and the session started to turn a bit mental. With impending layoffs coming, we knew this was a sort of last Hurrah. As the night at the Rugby Club came to a close we all grabbed hands and had a sing song along with Hey Jude. Marcella and I warmed up the dance floor with our boggie moves and got ready to head into town. Niall and I did our own sing song as we closed down the place to Queen - Bohemian Raphsody. I think he was singing much better then I was. We grabbed out taxi's headed into town for more dancign at RiRa. Pierce, Kathrin and I were the last standing as the place shut down, not bad for one last shin dig! I was happy to go home with the gold as well!