I then worked for three hours, then ate lunch. I had a ham, egg, and cheese stromboli to start.
Then, when lunch came into full swing, I ramped up the meats.
On one plate, I had nothing but smoked turkey breast.
Then, on another plate, I had some roast beef and chicken with corn and vegetables.
And on my last plate, I had some "gyro meat" along with some salad chicken and some roasted red potatoes.
I'm not convinced that the "gyro meat" is actually lamb, or even meat for that matter, but it tasted alright. The potatoes, however, were delicious.
During my second shift, I was working in the back. The bakery had some left over brownie scraps. They were just going to throw them away, so naturally I couldn't let that happen. I did my part in making sure that as little food gets wasted as possible.
I think I ended up having probably 3 or 4 pieces about this size. The brownie was good, but it was the ganache on top. One of the bakers described it as butter and chocolate chips melted together. Ummm...YES!!!
But after Quinn and I got off of work, we headed back to his and Andrew's dorm room to finish packing. After this packing was mostly done, we started trying to make plans on what we should do.
Being Andrew's last day in Lawrence, we thought we ought to do something to commemorate it. And since the only thing we ever do together when we hang out is eat, we found no reason to change it up!
But we didn't want to just go to some place we'd been to a thousand times. We (Andrew) was trying his hardest to make a decision, but bless his heart he just couldn't bring himself to it. Luckily, through the power of suggestion, we finally landed on a place to go. Zen Zero is a restaurant specializing in Pan-Asian cuisine. None of us had ever been there, so we didn't really know what to expect.
For little munchies, they brought out these puffy shrimp cracker thingies.
There was also some hot pepper sauce, or if you ask Quinn some extremely mild salsa, that went great with these shrimp puffs.
For my actual dinner, I ordered a No. 36 with chicken.
For those of you who don't have the Zen Zero menu memorized, this was, as may be obvious from the picture above, chicken with onions, garlic, bell peppers, and broccoli. It came with a side of steamed white rice.
I poured a little less than half of this rice into my chicken dish.
Andrew, being truly huge, gladly accepted my remaining rice.
After this dinner, we made the decision to send Andrew off with a classic favorite. So we all headed to Sylas and Maddy's for the best ice cream in the world.
Being a significant occasion, I decided to go all in and get a double waffle cone. I guess I'm truly huge too!
The flavors I opted to get were also two classic favorites. One flavor was DaBomb and the other one was Triple Fudge.
While Triple Fudge needs no real explanation, DaBomb is a little less intuitive. It's sweet cream ice cream with cookie dough, and chocolate cookie pieces. Quite simply, it's literally amazing.
Quinn and Andrew decided to share a quart, with their two flavors being Birthday Bash and, fittingly for Andrew, Graduation Day.
Afterward, all hopped up on sugar, we decided to hit up some serious parkour. And by parkour, I mean jumping up and touching things and jumping on top of things.
First, we saw who could jump and touch the highest part of an awning.
We used the letters as a guide to how high each of us jumped.
Moving on from this, we found a mailbox.
We all attempted to jump up and land sitting on top without using our hands.
After a while of this, we found a sign higher up on a wall, and we took turns trying to touch that, occasionally using the wall as a springboard.
This higher sign in question is the round one near the left of the above photo. As you can see, it's slightly higher than the awning on right that we were previously jumping up and touching.
Then we found a lower sign, which we tried to touch by jumping off of one leg.
This is a 5 year old photo, and the sign in its present form is a round one and that of Ramen Bowls (previously featured when Quinn, Sangsoo, and Arnesh competed in the Ghost Ramen Challenge). The Ramen Bowls sign might hang slightly lower than the one pictured.
And next, there came the now infamous trash can.
We attempted to use this trash can as a makeshift box jumping exercise. I was able to jump up and land with my feet on top, as was Quinn. But then it was Andrew's turn. He was hesitant, but at our prodding he eventually tried it too.
As you can see, it's a pretty tall jump. But was Andrew up for it?
Oooohhhh, he was sooo close! Unfortunately, the design of this trash can made it so that the openings on the sides were just big enough for an Andrew-sized foot and shoe to get lodged in. He looked to be in a bit of a predicament.
In fact, it looked like he was going to be in a fair amount of pain in just a few seconds.
But, alas, his feet came free of the slot, and he was able to return safely to Earth on his feet.
After several more reps by Quinn and I, Andrew put his shattered confidence back together and successfully jumped on top of the trash can.
Having successfully conquered this street box jump, we were looking for something more challenging. We entertained the idea of jumping clear over the trash can, as well as jumping up from a farther distance. While still trying to decide, Quinn attempted the latter. Unfortunately, he was just far enough away that his feet, instead of stomping firmly in the middle of the top, came to rest right on the edge of the top. This unbalanced distribution of weight and moving forces was too much for the geometry of the trash can, and it was sent tumbling over into the street. No one was injured, and we hurriedly picked up the trash can. We then proceeded to momentarily cease all jumping operations.
We eventually found a short stone wall that we started jumping on and over...
...but we didn't stay long. We then went on our way. It was a fun way to expend some energy while competing and bonding with bros on Andrew's last day in Lawrence.
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