Of everything we did in Kauai, I think my favorite part was when my mom jumped. But a close second was at night when we all came together and played games. Megan — the ring leader — put together most of them, but I was in charge of a night, and Brett did Sunday night’s more spiritual get together. Megan is INSANE! She brought over an entire suitcase dedicated entirely to her games, which were, Minute to Win It, Fear Factor, The Eternally Wed Game & Survivor.
Minute To Win It
First of all — here is a tribute to the girl who made it all happen. Megan was beyond organized, and is the reason our trip was insane! Here she is starting off our first night with a friendly game of Minute to Win It.
As Megan explained, my husband sits and comes up with his strategy.
Unfortunately for him, I was born brilliant, and kicked his trash in the dice on a stick, stacking game.
The brothers had a pretty good showdown, but Jake took it in the end.
Scout was a fierce competitor!
So of course the testosterone was going strong, and in the middle of our game, Ryan was challenged to climb a super high palm tree….and Ryan is up for any dare, and completed the task! Nice work — too bad about the scraped up arms!
Nonnie got in on the Skittle/Straw competition.
Sissy just got in on the straw action.
The oreo form your eye to your mouth game was tough. As you can see, Seth was trying to use his ridiculously long tongue to help him out.
The four year old category was so cute during this game.
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Sand Castle Contest
Here is Icka gathering flowers for our finished product.
Scout was on our team too!
Did I mention that it was the winning team?
Here are the winners!
How sweet is our finished product!
I know how sweet — $5 sweet for each of the people on the winning team!
Sorry sucker on the other teams!
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Fear Factor
All you need to know is that our faces needed to go in and retrieve a key to unlock some of our teammate’s hands from hand cuffs.
This stuff consisted of Kim Chee, gross eggs, pudding, squid, other types of nasty fish, etc.
As bad as it looks, the smell could have killed the weak.
It’s a good thing that Bella isn’t weak, because when she had to lightly touch her nose to it for the win, Micah came up behind her and smashed the container to her face. Afterwards, she was so mad at Micah — but kept including me in as a conspirator. I totally denied it, as did EVERYONE who watched. Everyone thought Micah was the only weasel — including him. But when we pulled the pictures up at Tristen’s request, the proof was in the pudding. Whops — I guess it was just like Pavlov’s Dog. I see Tristen in a bad spot — and I make it worse. I actually kind of feel bad!
The rest of the Fear Factor games were a blast also! But when I had to eat salt and vinegar covered crickets, I dry heaved about thirty times. I was surprised at how weak I was at Fear Factor. I totally blame it on the pregnancy!
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Coin Toss
On my day, I wanted the adult game to be separate from the kids, so I organized a coin toss for the kids. I grew up with Grandpa Murchie always throwing hoards of $$$ in the pool, and loved it, so I knew these 25 kids would love it too. But to make it WAY more fun, I did a little trivia game at first to allow them to get three steps closer to the edge of the pool. (One step per answer correct.) And right before they umped in, I told them that they were all jumping in for GOLD COINS! When I showed them, I heard a gasp amongst them — a coin toss for dollar coins — what could be more fun?!!!
Here are a bunch of them lined up. But don’t worry, I made them all get out before the toss to make it equal.
This is at the end of the toss where Micah went in to check and see if there were any coins left. Luckily our little bottom-feeders found every last one!
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Nonnie In A Nutshell
My adult game was celebrating the common denominator to us all. So my game consisted of all things Nonnie — mannerisms or sayings she is known for. You know — “Take Gas” or “Go jump in the lake” or “Skiwampum” or “ADRIAN ….” or her cackle, her eating style, or her face rubbing as she talks. We laughed SO hard all night. But if anyone was stuck or repeated, they were out. Amazingly enough, Shem and Ryan were awesome! My mom was so flattered to know they ever listened! But in the end, Ryan had about three times more than anyone. He was by far the winner.
And for the winner…..
I got him a blanket of Nonnie — so that he will never feel like he is without her!
I am proud to say that it might have been one of the best moments of the trip. And he LOVES his blanket! He literally walked with it around him the whole night, and then hung it from his balcony at the hotel!
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Survivor
The first event was a relay race while dressed in a hula outfit. Scout was pretty good!
But look at the Shmickster! He was awesome!
Afterwards, Micah dressed up in the costume — just because he liked it.
We moved on to “Cheeto Head” where we all tried to land as many Cheetos on one person’s head full of shaving cream.
Ryan found the shaving cream, and went crazy. No wonder every grandkid thinks he is the funniest person alive!
Here are all of the teams lined up for a relay race. Micah’s team cheated and won!
Then there was a whip cream eating contest. Seth was pretty dominant in this one.
But the final event to figure out the ultimate SURVIVOR was to stand on one leg in the surf — exactly where the waves were crashing. It was between all of the members of Micah’s team because they had won the most challenges. Everyone thought Micah was a shoe in, because of his athletic prowess. Too bad he was out in the first moments.
The surprise of the night was the showdown between Ryan and Merrill. We knew Ryan would be awesome with his par kour and all. But Merrill was the dark horse. How could the ultimate stereotypical tourist become the ULTIMATE SURVIVOR? Little did we know that he was P90Xing it up prior to the trip — and took the whole competition to the bank! $50 richer and even better — he was THE SOLE SURVIVOR!
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We had SO much fun! We would repeat everything all over again. Thanks Megan!
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