#44: AIRZOOKA FIGHT!!!

One of the really fun goals on the list that was added at the very last minute...

#44: Airzooka fight!

We got three airzookas, six cans of silly string, and a crazy sprinkler and had an afternoon of crazy fun! It was super hot when we first started, so we were all a little tense but the airzookas were good stress relievers! Alex, Wes, and I chased each other around, shooting the airzookas left and right. I may have hit Max a couple of times... He may have gone crazy as a result! We then gave everyone else the honor of being shot with airballs. Maddie thought it was the greatest thing although she made her scaredy face every time. Within 15 minutes though, all three were broken. Quality stuff right there! [Luckily, Uncle Mac fixed them all with duct tape and they still live to fight another day!]

Then we whipped out the silly string. Wesley of course took blue. Alex and I took whatever other colors there were. Wes used the tactic of shooting long (looooooooooooooooong) strands of silly string at one person at a time so they had to spend half an hour cleaning it off themselves. Alex went for the burst method where he would wait a long period of time before taking short, sniper-like shots at Wesley and myself. I, on the other hand, used the short-shot defense method where I was impartial until someone came after me and then I would barrage them with kamikaze like force until they fell to their knees, stared up at me and begged for their mommy. Okay, not really... Actually my first can of silly sting malfunctioned so it just made a sizzling noise every time you pressed down on it and I lost the fight as a result. If anything, I ended up screaming for my mom several times, but she was too busy laughing at me to help. Oh, cruel silly string world where teenagers can be taken down by pint-sized polymer marksmen...

I surrendered within 5 minutes. Wesley ran out of string within 3. Alex still had a whole can left at the end.

It was SOOO much fun and good stress relief. That is until we had to clean up, of course. =P

Once we finished making balls of dried-out, grass-covered silly string, we were able to hop into our swimsuits and jump into the sprinkler. It was a long orange tupe that had little extensions... fingers, flagella, cilia, whatever you want to call them... each with a hole at the tip so they ended up waving water around uncontrollably. It was so much fun to run through. We brought water guns out with a cup to fill them up, which was a blast. The force of the water was so great that at one point I aimed one of the little wriggling arms at my teeth and it felt like that water pick that the dentist uses. Unfortunately, Wes saw me do this and liked the idea, but he misaimed and hit the back of his throat causing him to gag uncontrollably. Then he went back and did it again. And again.

[And again.]

Maddie decided to join us, but was terrified of actually getting wet. When she first came out, she started running to the very edge where she could get water droplets on her toes and then run away as fast as she could as if she had just come from a monsoon. I decided to have some fun with her, but she wouldn't walk by herself up to the sprinkler (she would trot in place so she could feel brave... so cute!) so I picked her up and ran her in. I didn't know whether to expect her to burst into tears or laugh hysterically. Luckily, she picked the latter. She liked it so much that every time I'd ask if she wanted to go again, she'd say yes. In fact, we might have been out there all night if we could have! As soon as I put her down, though, she was back to her cautious little self.

Once again, it was super fun and another great item on the list!