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.