At 5:27pm a lone F-18 streaked over the sky and I wondered if that could possibly be Peppa. After reading my texts post-beatdown – yes – it was – we had our first F-18 flyover in the history of F3 NOLA! Thanks Peppa. You get credit in the bb for attending.
While waiting around in the brewery to start– I was able to try some powerful (or power draining if you ask Brown Bag) coffee. I brought my 2.0s – one of them studied for exams while the other one Reluctant Tiger waited eagerly for another chance to do some F3.
With the moving of start time to 6pm and the rush hour traffic around the brewery the crowd was slowly building for a decent sized beatdown. 86 had already set up his Jambalaya and bread pudding. Bartman delivered chicken for the kids. Also at this time El Wire arrived with a ton of Felipes. At 555 pm there were about 15 people ready to go start the beatdown. At 6pm exactly we set out for the Annunication Center Park. Between the Paradise Park trailer keg and the parking lot we picked up about 15 more PAX. By the time we arrived at the park we were a full assortment of 37 PAX looking for a 12 days of Christmas beatdown.
We moseyed over to the Annunciation Park – and we circled up. The mosey was treacherous with potholes and traffic but we were rewarded at the park with lights on. Immediately we got down to business.
Day 1 – 1 Burpee, Day 2 – 2 Jump Squats and a burpee, Day 3 – 3 Hand release merks, 2 jump squats and 1 burpee, Day 4 4 plank jacks, 3 hand release merks, 2 jumps squats and 1 burpee. You get the progression now… Day 5 Russian Twists, Day 6 Dying Roaches, Day 7 Mtn Climbers, Day 8 Peter Parkers, Day 9 Jumpling Jacks, Day 10 Mat Jumps Day 11 Low Country Crabs and Day 12 12 burpees! We let Spokes from FIA close out the exercise with a 1 min plank hold.
We did a circle of trust and named some of the new guys. Bongo keeping his 2.0s with the drum theme got more cowbell and snare. Da Parish keeping his 2.0s with Chalmatia themed names has Beauregard and Chal-mini. Sogo has Sunny. Brown Bag’s M is now Paradise or Pair of Dice.
Sorry if I missed anyone in the list of PAX – let me know in the comments and I will add you.
The beatdown had 37 PAX. The party had over 70 PAX mixed between F3 and FIA. Great turnout! We also had over 20 presents for Operation Sweet Tooth – which doesn’t include the presents that were directly sent via Amazon. Thanks to everyone who brought food. Medulla I think there was going to be a fist fight over the last pork tenderloin/brie/ cranberry slider. Thanks to Brown Bag who covered the first round of beers at the taps. El Wire for the Felipe’s hook up! 86 for the ridiculous bread pudding and the jambalaya. Bartman for the Popeye’s delivery. Thanks to everyone. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
