Some observations from Team Missouri.............
It is an engineering puzzlement that deck sections that fit together beautifully in Rolla are now out-of-square and the bolt holes don't match up.
You pay $35K for professionals to move the house to DC and they find a way to hit a TREE with a corner of the house and shred the metal roofing on the front of the house.
The team next door goes to dinner and asks you to make sure no one steals their house.
You house-sit literally for that team and take the opportunity to see what kind of cool power tools they have.
Contest rules require nearly silent generators, yet some teams bring units that sound like Neanderthal Harleys (no redundancy jokes here, please).
Your teammate stumbles and falls, and you are so sleep-deprived that you can't stop laughing.
You sneak a DC-based architect in your home for an early tour and he REALLY likes it.
He's impressed that it seems bigger on the inside than the outside.
The wife of the guy who established the Solar Decathlon back in '02 walks through your house and raves about it, calling it "uplifting".
You persuade your team's only liberal arts grad to finish off your drywall repairs.
Your advisor steps on that one deck section that you don't quite have bolted together yet.
The new architectural chic for '09 is corrugated metal. One such house has a lovely patina the rest of us recognize as rust.
There isn't enough water in DC to keep the students hydrated.
No matter how many times you spec something out somebody will cut it wrong. At least once.
We'll post some more event photos later tonight..................
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