Rick's bad sleep:

In the mid 1980’s, I spent a Thanksgiving Day night in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk of a retail store in Willow Grove, Pa. The purpose was to claim a spot in line for when the store opened for Black Friday business the next morning at 9AM. The store had advertised the fact that they had 25 Cabbage Patch Dolls for sale that Black Friday and my daughter desperately wanted one for Christmas. I was # 7 in line when my wife relieved me at 6:30 AM so I could leave for work that day. Erica got the doll on Xmas morning.

Dusty's bad sleep:

12/31/97. 5 days post-ACL surgery.
Also, 5 days into a friendly neighborhood staph infection.

Butter's bad sleep:

Camping at a tournament in Bristol, England. Torrential rain, windy
and no sleeping mat, little bit cold.

Erica's bad sleep:

On the way home from our trip to India - it was a 48-hour process from hotel room to home...I started in the Mumbai airport with significant fever, chills, and numbness of extremities. Couldn't sleep in the airport or on the plane as a result of the symptoms and the concern that I contracted malaria.

Annie's bad sleep:

Israel--Jordan River camping grounds.

Jamie's bad sleep:

Following the surgery where I had two pins put into my knee cap. During the night the pain killers would wear off and I would be able to feel each pin every time my heart beat. I could not figure out how to keep my heart from beating.

Stacy's bad sleep:

On a relatively cold spring night in the Shenandoah, I attempted to
sleep in a poorly constructed tent, in a crappy sleeping bag, in a
severe rain storm, with a terrible cold. All throughout the night,
the stakes kept coming out of the ground and the whole wet slop of a
dome would come crashing down on us, meaning that I had to get out,
get wet, reset the stakes, and attempt to fall back asleep.

Henry's bad sleep:

That night I brought that rabid badger into bed with me.

Eugene's bad sleep:

Sleeping in the back of an SUV at Kaimana since my sleeping bag and tent didn't make it to Hawaii that night.

Tom K's bad sleep:

Concrete steps on a train platform in Den Haag, Netherlands — we missed the 2:00am train back to Antwerp, so we had to sleep and wait for the 4:00am. That’s all the sleep we got that night.

Rachael's bad sleep:

1999. Ice cold, overcrowded train in the middle of the night from Avignon to Paris. I slept on the floor under a chair next to a dog and a nice man covered me with his blanket at some point. I then took two dramamine and woke up when people were stepping on me trying to exit the train in Paris.

Wayne's bad sleep:

Having to sleep on the stairs on a CYO shore trip because someone locked themselves in an otherwise empty bedroom all night

Colly's memorized films:

Star Wars (1977) and Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Wheels' memorized films:

A Few Good Men and Dumb and Dumber

Mike's memorized films:

North by Northwest and Star Wars

Alisa's memorized films:

Harry Potter 3 and The Fellowship of the Ring

Sara's memorized films:

True Romance and Sneakers

Erica's memorized films:

The Princess Bride and Star Wars

Nancy's memorized films:

Metropolis and Le voyage dans la lune