Early last year, our action-oriented parent association (PAPA) decided to treat students to a fun bash the Sunday prior to final exams. The first Brain Break was a pizza party, and most of the school showed up. For spring finals, they called it a Brain Freeze, and featured hayrides and ice cream hand-outs. Yesterday's Brain Freeze was a relaxing and hilarious carnival with loads of entertainments all revolving around a productive grill:
A professional outfit offered large, inflated obstacle courses and bungie jumping (not pictured) in the fieldhouse, while--just outside--trike races, unltimate Frisbee, a dunking booth and hayrides kept us all busy.
At 3:00 PM, the Bose was shut off so we could hear everyone's favorite punk/rock band, Station 7, bang out a few tunes, and a crowd gathered for the annual pie-eating contest. It's a disgusting, impossible, highly entertaining ritual.
A couple of minutes into the slurping and gasping, science teacher Sarah McIntyre triggered a lemon chiffon riot by placing her pie squarely in the face of an innocent bystander.
Things quickly spun out of control, as contestants and spectators rubbed custard and meringue into one another's hair. My zoom lens came in handy.
Today, PAPA's Brain Freeze is a distant memory, as we buckle down to final exams.
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