Neah-kah-nie speech & debate tournament 2007!

yesterday's speech & debate tournament was up there with my top five most fun days EVER. ^__^
I would go into detail but it was so complex i don't feel like typing it out. :D
it was a looong drive to the tournament, starting at 5 in the morning, but it was so worth it! I love my speech & debate teammates to death, they all rock. ^_^
Eric came in first in after-dinner speech, it was so HILARIOUS! Al B. came in first for Radio, his was also hilarious. Other teammates won other things, too. it was great! ^_^ Thomas and I won one public debate out of three, but they were all against Open and we were Novice, so we did really well.
The tournament, in honor of halloween next week, was a costume contest as well... I wore my genie costume from last year, it worked out well but i was freaking COLD in round 2 debate... so I stole Eric's sweater until I could find mine again. Thomas was a ninja, Michelle was a pirate, Becca was a ladybug, Spencer was Mr. Rogers (LOL! he kept cussing and doing very un-Mr. ROger-like things, which we gave him a hard time about :D) Eric and Michael didn't wear costumes, they just wore their suits.. michael claimed to be James Bond. Al B. had an awesome costume, he should have won the contest: he had board shorts on and his very baggy jeans were literally at his knees the whole day. he had on a black sweater with bones and skulls aligning with his actual body, a bowler hat with a paper gold crown and a feather on it, and a large wall clock on a huge chain around his neck. his t-shirt said "flava". it was hilarious. He also cut hishair; he was bored, apparently. We told people that he dressed like that every day, it was funny. Actually, he usually wears more normal jeans and a plaid suit...coat. jacket. whatever. Al B. rocks.

Our Speech & Debate garden gnome mascot: we only lost him once, we thought he'd been stolen again like he had been in the past but it turned out Spencer had just taken him with him downstairs, so after several announcements made by Eric in the cafeteria to the 200 other people there, it turned out he hadn't been stolen after all. btw, our gnome says on the bottom in sharpie "if you steal our gnome, we'll kick your ass". no one belives us...

sooo yeah. I lurv speech & debate sooo much!