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DRENCH-O-RAMA!
It was today! And you people who didn't show, you don't know what you missed. It was AWESOME. In under an hour, about 20-25 people made new friends, launched assaults on old enemies, drenched the hell out of their loved ones and wreaked revenge on their employers (and lawyer)!

I managed to take a few photos, before everything spun wildly out of control. Next time I will plan ahead for a bystander to do photography duty!

Everybody made short work of unloading the 18 buckets teeming with water balloons from the truck and positioning them at random on the grass.




Then they kinda milled around waiting to find out just how we were gonna do this thing.




We had a great group of kids all dressed for the occasion - half hippie, half commando. cheapdialogue grabbed one of each to make them a team captain, and we started picking teams, elementary school-style.




That was pretty much all the organization we had. Hippie team had to only use tie-dyed balloons, and the commandos had to use the grenades. BUT, you could hit whomever you wanted!



At first, everyone was very polite about beaning one another with H2O bombs, and respecting eachother's personal space...



...then it was pretty much a free for all. Here is when I put the camera down and decided to get a few licks in, myself. All decorum quickly vanished as it became apparent just how hard you had to pelt someone to break a bomb! cheapdialogue came home with a circular welt on his ribcage and I am sure I gave ragdoll13 a bruise on the hip. Y'had to get kinda creative to make a splash!

duffy61 menaced me with a bucket half full of water and chivalrously offered me a head start but the look in his eye was murderous! I took three steps away and managed to run right into a balloon well-launched by dakotameow - I took it right in the face right as Jonathan emptied the bucket over my back! It knocked my glasses off,even!

I tried to fake velveteen out by "offering" him a couple of balloons, which I then squeezed right in his face! While I was smugly chuckling to myself he brandished a concealed water pistol and blasted me in the face right back! Little did I know, hastapeanut was simultaneously cleverly combining several buckets into one which she deluged cheapdialogue with on the other side of the field!



Afterwards, everybody pitched in to pick up the little rubber remains. With everyone helping, it went really fast. I passed out some free drink tickets because everyone was such a fantastic sport and there were absolutely no whiners or gasbags (which was one of my rules, if you read your liability waivers!). Everyone hung out for awhile, laughing and chatting and wilting in wet clothes. It was surprsingly not cold at all despite the grey skies.


I have to say that this is now my favorite Black Drop event. It took five people three hours to prepare the water baloons, and the ten minutes of total liquid chaos on an overcast day in a lovely Bellingham park was WELL worth every minute of it.

Did you notice up there above where I mentioned "next time?" Oh yeah, baby. I wanna do it again! And soon, WITH LOTS MORE BALLOONS - before the summer's over! So all you lame-os who skipped out today, you're not off the hook, nuh-uh. We are gonna get you, sucker.

I just don't know when it's going to be. I have some other stuff to figure out right now. BUT STAY TUNED FOR DRENCH-O-RAMA II: WATER BOO-GA-LOO!