Jacqui.ch: Pickwicks fountain marathon

After watching the snowman explosion in Zurich, we returned to Baden and joined everyone at Pickwicks. To celebrate the last week in Baden for many praktikants, lots of people had met for all-you-can-eat ribs at pickwicks. Of course, ribs were just a prelude to the main event of the night: fountain tossing. It's a tradition amoung the praktikants here that before you leave you get thrown into the fountain at Pickwicks. Or if it's your birthday. Or sometimes for no good reason at all.

Vance did an awesome play-by-play of this night on his blog, so I won't go into too much detail. All you need to know is that by the end of the night every one of us was soaked and had been in the fountain at least once:

Wet Calgarian praktikants: Tommy, Travis, Mike, Richard, Evan, Felix, Vance, Lindsey, Bernard, Keegan, me, Devon, Shane, Kevin, Warren, Adrienn, Tyler, Henry

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Here's how it all went down:

The night started off with some all-you-can eat ribs and cheery beer drinking at Pickwicks

Warren chows down on some ribs at Pickwicks

Mike and Tyler's last Pickwick's night!

Tyler decides to dress up for the occasion...

Myri (the Swiss girl that Tommy is dating), Tommy and Warren

One last party together as Kehlians!
Me, Bernard, Richard and Henry

Eventually Tommy had to leave to walk Myri to the train station, and fearing that this might eb the only chance, the fountain throwing started. Basically, Bernard, Henry and Tyler were leaving at the end of the week and deserved to go in. Shane, Devon, Mike and Tommy were pretty much finished work, so they went in because it might have been there last night at Pickwicks. Richard went in because in anticipation for the night he wore his swimsuit, and chose to announce it aloud (common rookie mistake).

Tommy impresses Myri by being the first to be dunked in the fountain

Mike goes next (gotta get the fast ones before they have a chance to run!)

Henry is nabbed from Pickwicks to be thrown in

Richard reveals his swimsuit underneath... it worked out I guess, but ironically had he not been wearing it he might not have needed it. What a paradox

Bernard faces his inevitable doom

The Kehl guys, post-fountain visit

Tyler puts up quite the stuggle, and an umbrella is almost destroyed in the process (but they got him in the end)

Devon takes a swim

Shane was lured down to Pickwicks saying we needed his help to toss people in... little did he know....

After that the excuses started wearing thin... thin as in non-existant. Evan happened to be too near the fountain, with a wet revenge-driven Devon and Shane lurking nearby, so he went in. Vance was loudly orchastrating the whole affair, so he was silenced by being tossed in. Things just went downhill from there...

Evan fights to the death

Vance gets a piece of his own medicine

After Vance went in, he went a wild rampage declaring that everyone must go in the fountain. His first target was Warren. Unfortuantly for Vance, nobody really rallied with him, and the one-on-one battle with Warren resulted with Vance ending up in the fountain for a second time. Berg loyalty came to the rescue though, and Tommy returned from the train station just in time to help Vance throw Warren in.

Vance tries despartly to get Warren in the fountain

Travis was next

Along with Felix

...Keegan...

And Kevin

Apparently Travis didn't get his head wet on his first fountain visit, so they threw him in again

And while we're at it, let's throw Vance in one more time for good measure

By this point Lindsey, Adrienn and I were becoming all too aware that every guy had been tossed in the fountain already, and we were probably next. My only defense was that every other guy had given me his wallet, watch, etc so it didn't get wet... so I quickly loaded up my pockets in anticipation.

First Lindsey was grabbed, and she went in. Adrienn took off running, but I realized that I probably couldn't outrun anybody so in a half-assed attempt to escape getting wet cried out "I have all your stuff!". Nobody cared. They totally called my bluff, and as I was dragged towards the fountain, (being the kind person that I am,) I emptied out my pockets onto the street. Evan lifted me up and my glasses came flying off, as usual, so I tossed them blindly back towards the crowd. I flailed as much as possible, but it was hopeless and I ended up in the fountain, as I knew I would.

Since I was taking pictures, there ended up being no pics of me or Adrienn, so I've created paint images in an attempt to capture the moment.