Spring Break: An Antidote to Civilization
Shady Behavior South of the Border
Cabo Trekkers, MBA1
Issue date: 4/21/03 Section: Travel
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Just how many times can one hear 50 Cent's "In Da Club" per day without requiring psychiatric care? How many times can one say "No Gracias" to hideously colored ceramic bowl vendors without getting in a fight?
What exactly does it look like inside a Mexican prison? For 7 glorious days, 50 GSB'ers ventured south of the border and dared to answer tough questions such as these.
There was laughter. There were tears. But mainly, there was some truly shady behavior. Unfortunately, we don't know anything about this shady behavior, but in the spirit of the Oscars we have summarized what we do know of into a few golden statues of our own:
- point #1 The "Jewish Mother Award" goes to Barak Ben-Gal for bringing suntan lotion of every conceivable (and some not so conceivable) SPF rating in case someone forgot theirs, doling off aloe vera to those of us who forgot to apply said sunscreen, and always having extra stuff for everyone (from hats to food)
- point #2 The "One Tough Chick" Award goes to Ivy Cheung for coming back to life after having an ATV overturned on top of her by a "friendly" GSB'er and busting her ACL. Two days of rest was all it took before she was back to table top dancing!
- point #3 The "High Maintenance Coiffure" Award goes to Todd Bello. Words cannot say enough - picture those troll dolls you had in kindergarten and add Todd's porn-star dance and then look at the photos. That'll only start to give you an idea of the effort he puts into the hair. And he gets extra credit for turning it purple with the grape-scented sunscreen.
- point #4 The "Tree Hugger" Award goes to Michael Rigney for cutting down one of the four rarest trees in the park with his ATV (Hey, Rigney, here's a tip: If you're going to call yourself an environmentalist, you MIGHT want to stay away from endangered, indigenous foliage whilst careening around on an ATV.)
- point #5 The "Red Bull" Award goes to Shawn Stoval for being the last to go to sleep and the first one up in the morning. Danced each night away at El Squid Roe while suffering from 2nd degree burns (and he even used sunscreen. We saw him put it on! Didn't help much.)
- point #6 The "Friendly American Tourist" Award goes to Dave Lu for being the soul of international civility. OK, so there was this minor disagreement at a bar about what should be on the TV, and maybe Dave mouthed off a bit to the local owner. But did he really deserve that death threat? We don't think so.