Water fun

Now that's a birthday party to remember. Tim and Ruth's birthday party happened to be on the first hot day of this summer.

Before the actual party, I went to Adciv's christmass party in the park. It's an annual event, involving nice food (very tender stakes along with lots of other meats and salads) and good fun. There are presents for the kids and alcohol for everyone else. Anyway, I couldn't stay long so I don't have much to tell about how it went on, but I remember crindging at the rumor that there are water baloons. I made a mental note to disappear before they were brought to light and so I did.

That is how by about 1pm I found myself at the main event of the evening - the forementioned birthday party. I was late, but wasn't the only one, so about average. They had started setting up the shade and tables and the like and I did my best to get into the role of organizer and accordingly do as little work as possible. By the time everything was setup, water guns magically appeared around the table. Imagine my surprise, especially after my efforts to run away from the other party with planned water related festivities. To my surprise however, cold water being sprinkled at each other turned out to be a very pleasurable thing. Usually it's a major annoyance at best, but on that particular day, for whatever reason (if I had to guess, it would be the hot weather), it felt natural and really fun. I made sure I secured one of the weapons of doom and kept refilling until everyone within the line of fire was mildly wet at best.

It would have been great if stayed at that, but it's in human nature to keep pushing and pushing. This time it went way overboard. The water pistols became deadly when instead of filling them with tap water, their damage was being enhanced with icy cold water, which in combination with the 38 degree day resulted in quite a painful experience. Since ice was proven to do a satisfactory (in a sadistic kind of way) damage, ice was liberaly used in all kinds of other shapes and quantities - ice cubes were flying around and bowls of ice water were being splashed all over innocent and not so innocent bystanders. Then there were water balloons, which have just about enough water to drench a single person from head to toe, hurting a little as an added bonus. After the first round of those was used, there was the ultimate water weapon - the garden hose. Yes, yes, we got to the hose. For some unknown reason, I was the first one to fall under its unforgiving sprays of fire. I haven't been so drenched in my life. From then on it was easy. I had nothing to lose. Of course I got back everyone involved in my downfall, mainly Ruth and Elena and made them share the same experience I had. Soon enough the sprinklers were turned on to complete the arena feel, although by then they really made no difference - nobody could get any wetter than they already were. At some point, I lost my shirt as it really served no purpose anymore - left it to dry instead. Same with shoes and socks. After the aim of the day was accomplished - complete and utter anihilation of the enemy (everyone else) with weapons of mass ... watering, things started to wind down. We spend the rest of the evening in our usual intelectual conversations and the like.

The end. (or close enough)

p.s. Of course it's never the end, but it feels like I get tired of this after a while. I'll trademark a new writing fatigue or something :) I think I cover the most important part ... the rest is more or less usual gripes and struggles of the earthbound human :)