The team began the day off with breakfast burritos and Toy Story, so I would say it was a good start. Our first friendship visit was at a church with toddlers with disabilities. It was my first experience with indiviudals with disabilities at such a young age. Behaviorly, you wouldn't be able to tell a difference. There were about a dozen kiddie pools and slip n slids set up in the yard and we had a blast. I splashed with a kid, Freddy, for about an hour until Peter hit another kid, Jeremy, in the eye accidentally with a frisbee. From then on, Jeremy and I waged wars on the rest of the team by filling up buckets of water and dumping them on everyone. Needless to say, it escalated quickly and pretty soon everyone was soaking wet.
The day was based around water events and from the church, we headed over to the Six Flags water park, Hurricane Harbor. Drayton, PVO, Curphey, Ciani, and I were paired up with a girl with a visual disability and her siblings. Samantha had the opposite of tunnel vision and couldn't see straight out of her eyes but was able to enjoy all the rides fully. Vanessa, Christina, and Gilbert (her sisters and brother) all had a blast with us as we had some sweet water slides.
Dinner was sponsored by a former Pi Alpha, Randy Stillinger, who is now an officer in the Army. We went to Humperdinks Brewery and I was able to chow on a cheesesteak, a JOH delicacy. The resataurant even made up neat JOH specific menus for us. Randy still had one more surprise for us after dinner: Whirly Ball. No one had heard of it before but it is about as awesome as wheelchair basketball. Try to stay with me as I explain it. It is a combination of lacrosse, polo, and basketball but in bumpber cars. We each have our own bumpber car and a hand held scoop. About six or seven on each team. Goals are raised backboards with a circle cut out of the middle. The object is to whip the ball into the holes. You have only a limited amount of time to hold on to the ball and the cars do not have breaks. A crazy game with crazy fun.
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