The beginning of the lasts has begun, one of which was my last P-Day.
P-Day stands for "Preparation Day" and this is the 52nd year of its existence. 52 years ago it started as a a way for the Junior Class to fundraise for their senior week... and it has grown and grown into the Spring Day of SMC.
Our E-Board, most specifically the Programming Secretaries, are in charge of planning and executing the day. Colin and Steve (the Programming secretaries) worked their behinds off to make sure the day was full of activities.
Pday actually began Friday night with the comedian Rob Riggle (he is on the Daily Show). Our friend Kevin opened for him and a lot of people think Kevin was funnier than Rob. Rob was great though. One joke he did in particular, about Long Islanders, was so funny. Colin is actually from Long Island so he really got a kick out of it.
11am Saturday morning was the trike race. SO MUCH FUN! Me and my girlfriends got dressed up in ridiculous costumes (as did many others) and went to the Alliot rotunda to ride around on a tricycle. It was absolutely ridiculous as the obstacles included a "kid's car wash," flour, pies in the face, and a brick pathway to ride between.
Then the inflatables were up and ready around 1pm. The E-Board actually got to do the "Extreme Air" inflatable a little before 1pm which was so cool. It was basically a Sky Diving simulator, it used a huuuge jet and you just floated on top of the air. The guys who ran the inflatable were so cool, they actually held us down but when they would go on it to "test it out" they would go WAAAY up in the air and do flips and stuff. Other inflatables included an obstacle course, a bungee bull, sumo wrestling, and more.
And of course there was food! Delicious!! What happens is you grab a handful of tokens and then you go into the food tent and "spend" the tokens on different items. Everything is free because the Student Association pays for the day, but the tokens are a way for us to keep track of how much people ate. We had everything from Chinese food, to pizza, to Ali Kebabs.
That night we had another concert. State Radio was brought to SMC through a Mytracks competition that our radio station - WWPV - won. Our friends James and Billy were in the opening band "Fall Line" so we wanted to go and show our support. The concert was really good!
And to finish out the day we had a Midnight Breakfast (which actually started at 11pm) in ALliot. I think that was my favorite part of the day. Everyone is tired but in such a good mood and there was so much delicious breakfast food to eat!
I figured I would go to bed pretty soon after but I should totally know better with my friends. We ended up hanging out for another few hours and then the boys got back from cleaning up after the concert. Somehow that turned into an impromtu dance party for 2 hours. Around 4:30am we finally were tired enough to head to bed.
Epic Pday and definitely the best of the 4 I have had at SMC.
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