Monday, May 31, 2010

Item #45: Get in a Water Balloon Fight

This afternoon the epic quest that is my list continued. We needed an activity for FHE tonight, and because it was such a beautiful day it was decided that a water balloon fight would be satisfactory. Like all good things in life, this journey began at the local Walmart. After buying the balloons and every variety of Oreos available, we came home only to discover that the balloons could indeed not be filled from our kitchen sink. This led to a race around the complex looking for water faucets. We discovered that there was one at the end of each building, but half of them were also next to breaker boxes and electrical outlets. It was decided that this would not suffice because apparently getting an outlet wet is no bueno. Eventually we were able to find faucets that would work properly and we were able to fill the balloons.

Naturally, we could not tell the boys involved about what we were planning, so we had to come up with a cover story. We led them to believe that we were going to a local park to go "cardboarding." For those unaware of what cardboarding is, let me explain. You take a piece of cardboard and you sit on it and go down a grassy hill. Unfortunately, the cardboard was unsuccessful at going down the hill, despite numerous attempts.

This failure was ok, because being boys, they did not suspect anything anyway. While nobody was paying attention, I slipped away to get the balloons out of Tiffany's car. We maneuvered the basket of water balloons behind a large rock and I snuck up on my target, Kevin. He didn't see it coming. The attack was successful and a battle of epic proportions commenced.

The fight was a great success, especially after water pistols were introduced. One of the boys, Craig, was elusive but eventually we were able to get him as well.

After all of the balloons were used, we decided that we weren't ready to end our little party yet. This problem was solved when we decided to go back to the complex and go swimming, fully clothed of course. Most of the boys decided to chicken out and not jump in with us. Kevin even went to far as to say he would jump in, and then backed out when all of us girls jumped. I remedied this situation by pulling him in with us. Noel also eventually decided to join us. It was great fun and I would recommend it to anyone.

Task #39: Tye dye something

On Friday night I began my quest to complete my ring list. A friend from field school, Lauren, and I decided that we needed to make team t-shirts, and naturally they needed to be tye dyed. Unfortunately, she had never tye dyed anything either, so we got my roommate and best friend, Tiffany, to accompany us. Thus began our epic adventure.
The evening began, of course, with a trip to Walmart. After buying all of the essentials (including not only white shirts and a tye dye kit, but also 2 frisbees, a pair of sunglasses, some water pistols, bandanas, and citronella candels) we were ready to get party. However, at this point we were interupted by another roommate, Krisi, who was bored. Naturally we did what any normal group of college aged girls would do. We kidnapped her, ninja style. This abduction was complete with 007 rolls into the apartment and army crawls. Once she was stowed safely in the Jeep, we were ready to retire to Lauren's house for a night of creativity.
While the rest of us prepared the t-shirts for dying, Lauren prepared the most important thing, the food. Finally, we were ready to tye dye. I, of course, decided to make a swirl on my shirt. I'd have to say that pouring the dye on might just be the most fulfilling moment of my life.
After we were each done with a shirt we had just a smidgen of dye left and two shirts. Lauren and I took it upon ourselves to decorate them. We put the shirts on top of the dye that was already on the table and just dumped the rest of the dye on top. We then decorated each other's shirts with our handprints. It was precious.


My Ring List

1. Dye my hair blue
2. Learn to surf
3. Learn to snowboard
4. Skinny dipping
5. Make out fully clothed under water
6. Leave the country
7. Scuba diving
8. Visit all 50 states
9. Learn to play the guitar
10. Swim with the sharks
11. Sail a sailboat
12. Get my motorcycle license
13. Mud wrestling
14. Spend the night in a haunted house
15. Save someone's life
16. Drive from one coast to the other
17. Go to the Super Bowl
18. Have a song writen about me
19. Fly a kite
20. Go white water rafting
21. Learn to skateboard
22. Go to Rome
23. Go on a gondola ride
24. Learn to cook one thing well
25. Go camping without a tent
26. Run a marathon
27. Write a best seller
28. Go to an aquarium
29. Learn to dance
30. Donate plasma
31. Go to the opera
32. Go to the ballet
33. Go to Disney World
34. Get a professional massage
35. Go deep sea fishing
36. Road trip with no destination in mind
37. Plant a flower and have it live
38. Be a dead body on CSI
39. Tye dye something
40. Go to a play at the Globe
41. Visit a Civil War battlefield
42. Go to the Alamo
43. Go to the Kentucky Derby
44. Index one million names
45. Get in a water balloon fight
46. Go to Romania
47. Go to the Logan temple
48. Visit Roswell
49. Ride in a hot air balloon
50. Be able to do 50 pushups
51. Choose a trip destination by throwing a dart at a map
52. Read the standard works
53. Make a quilt
54. Learn to knit
55. Trace a branch of my family to the 1500s
56. Go rock climbing
57. Hike to the top of a mountain
58. Go to the hot springs
59. Learn a form of martial arts
60. Read all of the Jane Austen novels
61. Get a henna tattoo
62. Visit the real 4 corners
63. Watch sea turtle hatch
64. Drive at the salt flats
65. Walk across a bed of hot coals
66. Hold a snake (overcome my fear)
67. Ride a camel
68. Visit a light house
69. Fillet my own fish
70. Catch a fish as big as me
71. Eat caviar
72. Eat Indian food
73. Swim off the coast of Greece
74. Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow
75. Make jelly
76. Play racketball
77. Own something made by a designer
78. Make it through no-shave-November
79. Hunt for sea shells
80. Make beer bread
81. Get a conceal and carry permit
82. Milk a cow
83. Visit every temple in the continental United States
84. Catch a duck at the duck pond
85. Watch the sun rise from the top of a mountain
86. Own a pair of Tom's shoes
87. Watch all of Audrey Hepburn's movies
88. Take a family history class
89. Go to a Sunday morning session of General Conference
90. Go to institute
91. Watch all three James Dean movies
92. Ride in a helicopter
93. Go to a symphony
94. Complete a game of monopoly
95. Go golfing
96. Go to the body farm
97. Read all of the Barnes and Noble classics
98. Shoot clay pigeons
99. Have a birthday party
100. Go to Yellowstone

Items that have been completed.