On the 11th I threw a bachelor party for my little brother, Brenden. Now, this was most decidedly a "mormon" bachelor party, and not your usual affair of drinking and scantily clad women.
Six of us met up at my place to carpool down to Power Progressive Sports - a tumbling gym - for our first activity. It's a crazy place full of things like a large open foam pit, two super trampolines (they look kinda look normal trampolines, but the mesh part you stand on is stretchy, too), a couple inclined trampoline-ramps, a long run-way trampoline, and lots of large foam pads in a variety of shapes.
Brenden and I with the rope swing
David on the super trampoline
Luke on the run-way trampoline
Dan preparing to roll into the foam pit (me, Luke, and Jay pushing)
Dan, after a successful landing ("this one's for Scott!")
Jay clearing a hurdle, diving into the pit
Me jumping through a round obstacle into the foam pit.
Nearly everyone else did this, but this picture of me came out the cleanest. The camera we had with us wasn't the best.
Brenden attempting to do the same thing - notice his knees are bent... The whole thing toppled down with him into the pit.
Jay doing a flip into the pit.
Dan being epic.
Dan doing a flip "for Scott"
Brenden toppling another obstacle that he attempted to clear
The full group. I don't know everyone's names, so unless Brenden feels like having me update this, you'll just have to guess. I'm on the far left, Brenden's in the middle. One other came and went while we were at the gym, and another came just for the part at my neighbor's apartment.
After the tumbling gym we went to my neighbor's apartment (which is now Brenden's apartment, oddly enough) to have pizza and play games. Heidi prepared several plates of sweets for us and we got several Brick Oven pizzas. We played several games on my neighbor's Xbox Kinect, which was an absolute blast (watch some videos if you haven't sen it in action). While some were playing Kinect, we chatted a lot and generally had a good time.
Luke and Jay playing Xbox Kinect
After a bit of that fun, I pulled out a great present that many people helped me put together. Two weeks before the party, I sent an email out to many of the men closest to Brenden and asked them to write little letters of congratulations and such. The responses were compiled into a small book I titled "Manly Marital Advice, Jokes, and Felicitations." Many responded with heartfelt advice, other with spiritual thoughts, others with some hilarious jokes (here's my favorite, shared by Natalie's dad). Brenden loved the many letters compiled there, so thank you to all who responded.
It was a great evening. Lots of fun and no broken bones to speak of. Now just a few more day till his time of bachelordom is over! Just two more days! Happy wedding, little brother!
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