PAX: Porcelain, Pumpkin Spice, Crab Legs and En Fuego for the pre-party, then joined by Bicentennial Man, Bad Boy, Vector, Hi-Viz, Blue Mule, Right Said and Trapper Keeper
QIC: En Fuego
Conditions: Primed for Santa’s imminent arrival
11 PAX took the DRP and posted at Westeros this morning. All left jollier, merrier and better for it, while mindful of the truth nugget given to us through the great Christmas classic Polar Express – “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are things we can’t see.” Namely, T-Cell’s presence this morning.
THE THANG:
0530 – light-headed disclaimer given due to the Porcelain pre-party and we jump right into the Christmas spirit. What better way for YHC to say Merry Christmas to his fellow PAX than a little rendition of Feliz Navidad. We hold plank during the song, merkin for every Feliz Navidad and mountain climb our way through the chorus. Mumble chatter at the 2:40 mark as to whether this was an extended version. Twenty seconds later, we’re up and we mosey, setting up COP at the base of the hill along the Bowling entrance. PAX perform SSH, WMH, GMs and Scorpion Stretch, upon completion of which the day’s instructions are given.
Tucked in a Santa hat are 10 folded up pieces of paper, each one carrying the name of Santa or one of his reindeer. Each also contains a corresponding exercise / reindeer game to be performed upon selection. When a PAX is chosen for his turn as Secret Santa, he pulls a name out of the hat, and the PAX then gifts the others with an approximate 2-minute Q, only rule of Secret Santa being that the Q must minimally incorporate the corresponding exercise. Upon completion of the Q, the PAX then picks the next Secret Santa and we repeat from there. The reindeer games…
Dasher – 100 yard dash
Dancer – Lieutenant Dans
Prancer – Patty Cake merkins (PAX form two lines like reindeer on a sleigh, so patty cakes performed to your left or right vs in front of you)
Vixen – Vacuum Cleaner (popular M gift, so long as it comes from a grandparent)
Comet – Chilly Broad Jumps (of course reindeer love jumping over one another)
Cupid – Catch Me If You Can (because of course reindeer love playing chase too)
Donner – Diamond Merkins (another popular M gift, so long as it comes from said M’s PAX)
Blitzen – Big Boy Sit Ups (you think the Reindeer don’t need some abs to carry that sleigh?)
Rudolph – Rockette Dips, a PAX pleaser, and not TK’s first time
Santa – Squat Jumps, to help squatting in those chimneys all night long
Finish with a couple minutes of Mary, where we circle up for some Ho Ho Ho’s (PAX alternate between 25x Hammers with a coupon passed around and Outlaws). Timer goes off and we mosey back to flag, huddle up for COT / BOM.
BULLHORN:
- Bicentennial Man hosts F3 Libeery tomorrow night at Fat Bottom Brewery. Freed to Lead will be the topic of conversations, among many good others
- Tentative hold for the next 12th man leadership event, led by Bad Boy, on January 21st (?). Early rumors Jerome Bettis may be in play, we’ll see…
Honored and appreciative of the opportunity to lead this morning, and appreciate each of you going all in on some Secret Santa. Praying for a wonderful, rich and meaningful Christmas season for you and your families, and that we are reminded daily of His presence and goodness, and the real reason for the season.
En Fuego