Bachelorlympics

Dave came prepared with all sorts
of appropriate attire

For those of you who don’t know, I love sports.  I love pretty much everything that has to do with sports.  And lucky for me, both Felipe and Scott know this about me.  Everyone got to experience the London Olympics, but just a select few athletes were able to enjoy the Ophelia Bachelorlympics.  That’s right – my guys pulled off an incredible 3 day set of festivities – complete with opening ceremony and multiple “sports” – to make me an Olympian.

The schedule of events for the weekend included a touch football game (not for a medal), individual and team cornhole, individual and team ladderball, individual and team kubb, individual beer pong, and BeerioKart.  Scott and Felipe coordinated the logistics of the weekend, as Scott was able to secure his family’s riverhouse as our Olympic Village for the weekend.  Scott (and eventually me because I love it) created brackets in advance of the weekend, and when all 10 guys arrived on Friday evening, we were ready to dive right the opening ceremony and BeerioKart.

Torch lighting

Felipe, in his incredible attention to the small things that make things much cooler, had everybody select an anthem to play as their song.  The songs ranged from Disney ballads to rock anthems, to clips from musicals to a moment of silence.  In a nod to Ando, we played the Australian national anthem as well as the US national anthem and the Olympics anthem.  And we even had our own lighting of the torch.  Everything about the first night was wonderful, particularly because we kicked off the festivities with an event that I love: BeerioKart.  It’s the only drinking and driving that any of us endorses.  As expected, Felipe (gold), Brian Allen (bronze) and I (silver) excelled (carryover from  our nerdy high school days or playing far too much MarioKart), and were the first to partake in a medal ceremony.

official brackets

On Saturday morning, we all had a wonderful breakfast treat: Bodo’s bagels from Charlottesville!  Scott had arranged the pickup of Charlottesville goodies the week prior, and to all of our delight, our days were off to a good start.  It was then time for our football game, and Dave Hartmann set the tone for the rest of the Olympics.  As I mentioned in my post about our ushers, Dave is one of my buddies from high school (but not a BeerioKart medalist).  Dave ran track in high school, and for some reason seemed to think he’d like to prove that he could still fit into his track suit.  For Dave’s sake – and for yours – I’ll forgo the picture, but his shameless style made everyone know that we were in for a good time, regardless of outcomes.

After the football game, we all took a quick break (we’re not as athletically gifted in our mid-to-late-twenties as we thought . . .) and then got the lawn games and medal events going.  Cornhole and ladderball took forever (I want to forget about ladderball . . . Felipe skunked me 12-0), but eventually we worked through the group stages and into the finals.  Classick frustrated BMar in both championships taking two gold medals, while Scott took a bronze in ladderball and I brought home a bronze medal in cornhole.

Just like the Bodo’s goodies for breakfast, Scott had orchestrated Take It Away for lunch, and we all wolfed down house dressing with pleasure.

The highlight of the Bachelorlympics might have been the newly-discovered lawn game kubb.  I won’t attempt to explain it, but an alternate name for it is “Viking chess” and you can find out how to play here.  It looks super lame in the video, but it was awesome to play.  It, along with a couple of other lawn games, will make an appearance in 26 short days at Ash Lawn!

On Saturday night, after a full day of lawn games and day drinking, we all retired to the living room at the river house to enjoy some AC and relaxation.  Scott had spent some time compiling a SWEET trivia game (I love trivia just about as much as I love sports), and we all had fun ensuring we had a sound mind to go with our sound bodies.

The Olympics themed bachelor party complete with trivia, great food from Charlottesville, and some of my best buds in the world was the best one I could have asked for.  I know some people love painting the town red, but getting to relax in a gorgeous river house and play lawn games was exactly what I wanted to do, and I’m so thankful to Felipe, Scott and the rest of the guys for having organized it all.  It was an awesome weekend with the guys, and one that I hope indicates just how fun a time we’ll have when we’re all back together – this time with our dates – in Charlottesville.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, here are the full medal results:

BMar                1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze

Classick            3 gold, 2 bronze

Javier               1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze

Scott                1 gold, 2 silver

Dave                2 silver, 1 bronze

Felipe               2 gold

Vinh                  1 gold, 1 bronze

Brian                 1 silver, 1 bronze

Andy                Medal-less

Rhett                Medal-less