Geeky Yet Waterproof

Last Friday, Adam, Andrew, Amanda, Mihato, my guitar, and I all went over to Iza’s house after practice as a preliminary party to Snoball, which was the next night. We gorged down on pizza, then watched Wedding Crashers while eating brownies.
After the movie, a guitar face-off took place between Iza and myself, with Adam, Mihato, and Amanda in the “audience”. This is how you really play Guitar Hero… with REAL guitars!

The next day, I went with Iza and the same group of four to SnoBall, Salem’s annual high school dance. We first all met at Iza’s house to take photos, then we all went out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Afterwards we went to the dance, which lasted from 8pm to midnight. It was crazy (fun): there were 2,800 people there, and it took place in a huge arena.
Some of us even went moshing, but after the first 30 seconds we gradually realized that it was about 20° hotter in the middle of the action, so we retreated to the outer reaches of the floor.
I saw a lot of people I knew there, from high school swimming, Bearcats, and even across the lake.
The only problem was the music: rap, rap, Numa-Numa, rap, hip-hop, rap, YMCA, rap, hip-hop, rap. Fortunately, I was prepared for this madness, thanks to - or shall I say, by fault of - the radio we listen to at morning practice. But just because the DJ had a less-than-quality iTunes library didn’t mean it wasn’t fun.

We ended up taking four people home afterwards, so I didn’t get home until about 1:30am, and didn’t go to bed until about 2:15. Luckily there was no morning the next day, because if there had been, I probably wouldn’t have gone to bed at all that night.

Like any party with 3000 people, this was all great fun. So, if the photos below aren’t enough, I’ve uploaded 115 more to a gallery. Enjoy.