So I decided that since it's pretty much my last weekend up here, I'd go out with Marguerite and the girls to Maggot Fest 2002 and party a little. OH MY GOD. Marguerite, your warning of "Oh, wear crappy clothes 'cause you might get hit with some beer" is probably the understatement of the century. Let me explain.
Maggot Fest is a huge weekend party consisting of a bunch of Rugby teams from all over the US and Canada that come down and play in a giant tourny all weekend and then party it up at night. The party part was the only thing I happened to go to, but I think I've exceeded my maximum dosage of Maggot Fest for a while.
We showed up at the fairgrounds, where the security checked our ID's and sold us our cups and then let us inside to this huge covered area where a cover band and about 500 people were crammed in like sardines along with about 160 kegs. Anyway, most of the Rugby teams were there, all dressed in different themes (i.e. Clowns, Hawaiian boys [too bad none of them were cute enough to walk around with their shirts off] and of course the unforgettable group of about 12 grown men dressed up in pink bunny suits) and then most of Missoula showed up to help celebrate Maggot Fest's tradition of chucking full cups of beer over the crowd, or getting into individual beer fights. I managed to avoid most of the flying alcohol for a while, until I was standing in line for the keg when this guy comes up behind me, makes a remark about how my cup is empty (duh, not like I'm in line to fill it or anything) and then proceeds to dump his full beer on top of my head rather than in my empty cup. *Sigh*
Besides the fact that I now had to walk around cold, wet, and sticky, the night wasn't all that bad. I had to kiss this sorta cute guy in order to get my beer cup back, and Jaqueline and I got some pretty good pictures with the naked man (apparently he was either very self assured, or very very drunk).
After that, Kristie, Jaqueline and I decided we'd had enough of dodging the flying beer cups so we headed out and left Marguerite and Gail to fend for themselves. Sorry girls, hope you had a good time anyway. :)