Scintilating Saturday Night

This past Saturday was spent in a rather unusual way. First of all, my brother and I actually played a game... together. Second of all, it didn't revolve around video games.

Yep. The Wii idled on the shelf. The HD TV with it. The iPods weren't shoved into the ears of their respective owners. Cell phones were out of the room. The laptops were charging and the DVD players were still.

So how did we spend this Saturday evening? HOW? Cup Stacks.

Does anybody remember these things? They are basically plastic cups with holes in the bottoms of them so when you pull them apart, they don't stick to each other. The idea is that you stack them up in pyramid-type things and then take them down and the build them up again -- really quickly.

Check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEuAH262TE&feature=related

So the point is to do "the cycle," which is what that kid is doing, as fast as you possibly can. Most of these Cup Stacking stars are elementary school-age which is appropriate since that's the age this "sport" is introduced.

Anyway, my brother and I still had our Cup Stacks and broke 'em out for old time's sake. We're not nearly as impressive as kids like that, but it was fun to do it again.

Eventually we got bored with it and decided to play some strange game loosely based on the idea of beer pong. We each set up our Cup Stacks face-up in a bowling pin formation and took turns throwing a balled up piece of paper, trying to land it in one of the cups furthest away from us.

It was fun. Fun enough to keep us entertained for a full hour. Plus, we found a use for some of that college mail that has been coming in huge volumes for Nick since his sophomore year. The thick glossy paper they used provided us with a nice paper ball to throw.