Finally got the pics off Dad’s camera. It’s pretty boring if all you’re gonna do is wade in a pool for 10 hours. You gotta mix it up! If you’ve watched the original blues brothers and saw the scene where Jake and Elwood were being rushed by what seemed like an entire country of SWAT team guys, that’s how many cannonballs we did. It was ridiculous!
Also, all throughout the day, we played “grab a random person and throw him into the pool”. This lasted for a couple of minutes, until some of the people we were calling out for just gave up running away and threw themselves into the pool (resistance is useless)!
Then, when we got tired of doing cannonballs and throwing people into the pool, we tried synchronized swimming and/or diving (we’re not going to argue semantics here now, are we?).
Its obvious we have to talent whatsoever in terms of diving or swimming – the other guys fell different directions, so we had to not jump or else we could have injured the guys that dove in first.
Then There Were Games
Ate Ria came up with some games. Games that if you do not have the perspective and humility, would erode your soul and crush your ego. In other words, awesomely fun games.
Disregarding context, you’d think this guy just killed a cheetah by sitting on its head. This game’s for couples. Both would be blindfolded and the wife would try to feed the husband a hotdog slathered in ketchup. First to finish three hotdogs wins. And gets plastered all over the Internet on some blog nobody reads (self-contradictory, I know, but it’s all good). Fun.
The next game was for the little kiddies and teens. What they needed to do was to transfer cola from one bottle to another using a straw; fastest one to finish wins.
The kids mostly spilled half the cola on the table. Then they drank a fourth, and whatever was left went into the other bottle. Yeah, pretty much.
The teens did the same but with more snore. C’mon, little kids making a huge mess is incredible juvenile entertainment! Anyway, it was still fun.
This was the second funniest game of the day (next to the ketchup-slathered hotdog eating contest); what you had to do was use a pump-action bug spray to propel a feather around a track and give it back to your next teammate to do the same. First team to have all five members back wins. *I honestly don’t know where she gets her game ideas*.
I was shooting video of all the games when I got dragged into this, so I gave it to Mai Mai when I had to participate. As expected, I made an ass of myself when I completely forgot who my teammates were and proceeded to taunt them when they were being given the prizes. Then they told me I was part of the team. (We won, even though I blatantly cheated; I cheated because I actually thought we were surely gonna lose the race and decided to just try to mess up the other guy a la Dick Dastardly). I’m an ass.
Here’s a [crappy] video of above:
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Oh well, good times.
The next game was another one for couples – The Egg Race! Couples had to rest an egg between their cheeks and go around a track. First team to get all 5 couples back wins.
The last game was probably the most ridiculous. I don’t know what to call it. You had to put on a pair of shorts, a t-shirt, and then an improvised cap that had a pin on top, run to a girl holding up a balloon, jump up to pop it with the pin on your cap, get doused with flour, run back, take everything off and give it to your teammate. Rinse and repeat. Oh, and all the while spinning a hula hoop.
Uh… yeah.
Tsk tsk, adults today.
Anyway, before we go, ladies and gents, former president Fidel V. Ramos: