Wildwood

Went down to Wildwood last weekend for the first time to participate in the Wildwood Ultimate Tournament. I went down with Nikhil, Jayson, Amanda, Annie, Fran, Alan, Charlie and Sean. On Friday I drove down with Nik, Alan, Sean and Sachin in my car, which was pretty fun since they kept me from being bored while I was driving. When we got there, we had a little bit of trouble with the people at the cabin registration, who wouldn't let Annie's parents just come in and drop off her stuff. After sorting some stuff out we unpacked and tried to get a fire going outside.

Later on me and Jayson drove over to the Bolero Hotel to register our team. After seeing a bunch of other people I knew, I then noticed that there was a huge party at the hotel. I was greeted by Bill Sanborn and a slightly tipsy Thales at the entrance and then I proceded into the hotel by myself since Jayson didn't have ID with him. When I went inside there was loud music, dancing, and flashing lights everywhere. Not knowing where to go, I followed the Rutgers guys around only to realize that they had already registered and were just here to party. After figuring out where I was supposed to be, I situated myself into the line which was moving at a rate of 0. I waited on this line for about an hour and a half, and somewhere within that time the two girls in front of me started making out, which occupied me for a good 30 seconds. Jayson decided to get into the hotel somehow and joined me in the line. When we got to the registration desk, the woman told us that she had emailed us and told us that juniors could register tomorrow. There was never any goddamn email, however, so I spent the entire ride back to the cabin cursing and screaming in anger.

I slept pretty badly that night, trying not to move and disturb the girls since my bunk bed was noisy as hell, and at one point during the night, Alan started cursing off Fran in his sleep, and couldn't recall it the next. The guys kept everyone up for a good one to two hours by screaming.

The next day we woke up early to get to the registration tent, at the time we were SUPPOSED to register. We then found out that there were only 5 teams in the juniors division therefore we would not play on Sunday.

We first played Westfield, a game that was somewhat close but we had full control of the game the entire time. A lot of the points were skies or layout scores by me from Jayson's long flicks. A couple of the scores were nice floaty flicks out to space by me, Jayson, and Charlie that we just had to run down. We ended the game winning by two points. Our next game was against a Lower Merion juniors team, but at that point we were all lazy as hell and had no motivation to play. We decided to mess around and throw hammers, resulting in a huge loss. Next we played Get Your Disc Wet, who was a pretty bad team that even though we didn't take them seriously, we dominated them by at least 10 or 12 points. After that we played another juniors team that obviously hadn't played real ultimate before, so we won 18 - 0 or something like that.

We hit up the beach after that and then later on that night we went to the boardwalk. I saw Noah, Principi, Bode and a couple of the other Roots kids as well as some of the Rutgers guys there. We walked around for a bit, getting smoothies, ice cream, and fried oreos. It started raining incredibly heavy after that so we headed back to our cabin to make smores by the campfire. That night we slept a lot better since I was on the floor, therefore allowing me to sleep without worrying about the creaky bunk bed and waking anyone up.

Woke up in the morning around 8 AM, and headed over to the beach. We walked around for a bit to see if anyone wanted to play us, but NYU, Rutgers, and Stuy all had games going on. We went up to the boardwalk again and got more smoothies while Annie, Fran, Amanda, Sean, and eventually even Charlie got on some rides. We all went to the beach afterwards and Nik's jersey eventually got swallowed by the ocean. We lay on the sand for a bit while Sean tried to catch a bird with a towel. After, we went back up to the boardwalk to go to the waterpark, but it started raining really hard and therefore the rides were closed. We decided to just walk around on the boardwalk a bit more then we watched the finals and headed back to the cabin.

The drive home was a pretty peaceful one. We conversed and stopped at a certain point so I could take a rest and grab some food. Afterwards, we headed back and it started pouring like crazy again. Thankfully, we got back to Warren in one piece.