This has been for sure, one of the best summers of our lives up here in ANI House. Peterborough has treated us very well and in an effort to put a close on things here is a brief catalog (in no particular order) of all the stunts we pulled, events we attended, things we saw, said and did during our time at ANI House, Summer 2006...
-Drunken swimming in the poluted Peterborough River on our first night
-Worked on "Peterborough Time" Cartoon with Barney at Super Popular Studio's
-Bryan's fight with a drunken Cowboy with a Mustache at the Trash, then talking his way out of it when the Cowboy's friends waited for him outside the bar
-Derek's fight with drunks on the street while driving home from the Festival of Lights and the drunks running after us down the street while we drove away "What have you got"- "I've got a Car..." then peeling away
-Derek Tackling Barney at the Ranch, while quite drunk
-Steph slaming Aaron's crotch with the car door
-Partying at the Ranch till sunrise, Andy almost burning Bryan, Derek and Karin to the ground in the process
-Mitch spitting and spraying whatever he was drinking onto Bryan on many occasions
-Bike Trip to the Zoo, and ending up on the wrong side of the river resulting in us going 'the long way'
-Our own backyard Pool and after work Pool Parties
-Bryan attempts to be pool life guard and steps clean through the backyard table
-Derek Busted by cops on first night for climbing the huge rocking chair
-Our crack whore, drug dealing, boarding house neighbors- or 'The Others' as we refered to them
-Stealing a recycling box from the downtown and dumping it onto the sidewalk while we ran away
-Our own 'day long kitten' Henry Gail- a kitten belonging to 'The Others' who we took in for a night
-Sam's nicknames for us... and them never sticking
-Sam's morning greeting "Hey Dudes"
-Our Tree getting struck by lightning and falling into the street
-Bryan and Aaron getting blown up by our BBQ
-Bryan getting his arm blown open by a poorly aimed Bottle Rocket, another Bottle Rocket nearly taking Steph's head off
-Derek's standing vigal during the hide and seek game at the Ranch
-Late Night fights between members of the 'The Others' in our streets
-Bryan's Sewer Adventure
-Lay's Chip Factory Dumpster Diving for free chips
-Using skids as firewood... some free some stolen
-Caricaturing at the Festival of Lights Wednesdays and Saturdays
-Derek's sunburn from Barrie Caricaturing
-Summer Snowball ambush/ Snowball Fight outside the studio
-Silly Hat Day
-Silly Costume Day
-the word 'Fancy'
-Going to the Pig's Ear for Trivia, winning and then not getting the team prize money
-City Lights Late Night Poutine
-Chumlies used Video Store
-Piling into 'Ellen' Barney's falling apart Lesbian Van
-Caricaturing at Mrs Wornoff's elementary school
-Teaching kids at the Studio- the twins, the Mario kid and Conner (I'm Milking!)
-Lesbian Artifacts found at the house
-The Colin Hay song war
-Aaron's story of putting Joel in the Storage Closet "Heeeeelp. Heeeeeelp. I can't breathe you guys... Heeeeelp."
-The Summer Quote List (see Quote List Post)
-the Summer of watching Scrubs and House
-watching Lost Season 2 at Lunch and the overly intense Lost Season Finale that we couldn't wait for Aaron for
-Mexican Dinner and free movie pass nights
-Morty and Flip Flop, nuff said
-Sneaking Barney into 'Cars' at the Theatre
-Going to see the Shrimps at the Trash Friday Nights, Barney giving the Animators a shout out and us freaking out
-Steph's Shopping Cart Rides
-Watching Wet Hot American Summer "And Neil, next time we go camping, YOU drive the van! Aaaahahahaha... aaaaaahahahahah.... aaaahahahahaa.... AAAAHAHAHAHAHA"
-Aaron's 'Superman' Song "superman... it was SUPerman... SUPerman..."
-"Pink Lemonade" and Aaron's love of it.
-Quoting the Blue Raja
-Steph seeing Dan's Penis on Andy's Cheek... on Barney's Camera
-Aaron's Fiddle
-Going Garage Sailing on Saturdays
-Mitch putting Salt in his coffee instead of sugar
-Hide the Saltine (and 'hide the sandwich')
-Getting 'Graveled'
-Mitch putting sour milk BACK in the fridge for Bryan to pour in his coffee
-Tetris/Dr. Mario competitions
-Bryan freaking out at people 'Back Seat Gaming' (Karin getting the worst of it)
-Back yard fires
-Steph falling out of her lawn chair at the Ranch, smashing into Aaron
-Stealing 30 some odd slices of pizza from Pizza Hut
-The Hungry Woodsman eating 4 racks of ribs at East Side Mario's
-Anything Connor ever said
-Derek getting a 1G memory stick for the price of a 500mb
-Bryan's Onesies
-Sneaking onto the rooftops of downtown Peterborough for some aerial photography
-Putting a 'Crappy' sign on the doors of Sin City and getting busted for it
-Chris and Benj jokes
-August 2nd, 2006: The day when we'd officially gotten to close and jokes about circle jerks and bukkake were accepted among the group like they were no big deal.
-Our ENTIRE last night adventure- Police busting The Others, Drinks by the Fire, Piling into Barney's Van to go to his place, Drinking Raspberry Beer there, Playing in the play ground, Derek Falls out of Tree, Walk through Spiderweb Bridge, 200am Walk down into valley for a 'short cut' and getting very lost and very wet, climbing the cliff in the dark, Barney and Em fight (thankfully resolved), pictures on the bridge, climbing the buildings again and everyone making it to the top of the city, walking home at 430am laughing the whole way and at work for 9am.
That's all i can think of at the moment. But like it's been said- it was one hell of a summer!
**NEW ADDITIONS**
-Derek pulling a brick wall apart with his bare hands
-'Scrubs' and 'House' athons
-The dream of 'Ham Sandwiches' taking a bite of ham, then cheese, then bread and pass it on.
-"Legend, oh Legend, the One Pedal Legend"
-Derek making Wornoff look like a
fool in a blood donation race
-The Day Mitch, Bryan and Almost Derek getting in bike accidents all in one trip.
