What do you get when you combine 11 hyper teenagers and a pile of sleeping bags at 11:00 at night? SLEEPING BAG RACES!!! Having fun during free time on an urban mission work project. Spring Break, March 2009.

::episode three:: Westport, Co. Mayo, Tuesday, 22:25: Have been desperately trying to get some sort of video up on the channel, but it’s been so full on here that the whole idea of getting anything cohesive on the video channel is close to nil. Between absent mobile signals and just the sheer madness of it all, there’s been no chance to edit or update! We have left Sligo and are headed due south for Galway, Kerry, and then eastward and beyond. I’m sitting in my sleeping bag with my laptop setting my lap on fire, trying not to be thrown from my berth as this caravan rolls madly along to the next timing stop. This is exciting! Joe has been leading the pack for a while now. Now that we’ve made it half-way around, the strategy has been laid out. The strategy? No sleep. Joe has been on the bike for over 24 hours and he’s not slept. We stopped just outside Sligo to see if he would take a nap, and the Gaffney family, whose door we parked outside, offered him their shower. He washed up, ate, and we’re on the road again! Joe Barr is riding the Race Around Ireland to raise badly needed funds for the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children. Please help Joe raise £100000 by donating just what you can, even £1, and sharing the link with your friends. justgiving.com/joebarr-racearoundireland/

5 students and their guidance counsellor set up and participate in a “worm race”. A race in which the participants get into their sleeping bags, and race as worms.

Oh my god how stupid are the kids!

The Musser kids and the Spratt’s race down the stairs in sleeping bags. Endless fun. Old School, circa 1985.