Summer Games(Ida Street Olympics)

This is going to be a long post. What great fun we had Thursday night, it was time for some games, we always do this at the end of the summer some time before school starts. This set of games was exceptionally funny.

To get things started the first game was easy everyone sat in a circle except one person who left the area. Someone in the circle is named as the "killer frog", the killer frog takes people out of the game by sticking his tongue out at them. The person who left then comes back and stands in the center of the circle trying to figure out who the "killer frog" is.

Here is Cam having just been killed by the frog.Steven is in the center of the circle trying to find the "frog"
The next game was a relay race. The object of the game was to get your entire team on a noodle, run down around the tree and back.

You start with one team member on the noodle and each time you go down and back you add another these pictures show the final teams.

Next was find the hidden peanut butter cup..it is hidden in the pile of whipped cream and you cannot use your hands to get it...
so line up...
run down...

eat the candy...

eating the candy is not so easy with the whipped cream also on your face and the pressure of your teammates behind you...

but it can be done!

Then we played a game called "spaghetti head", the object be the first to fill your teammates head with the uncooked spaghetti.

Staci had allot of hair to work with but Cam and Steven made quite a handsome team.

One that became a favorite was the underwear race(don't worry we used pajamas)

Line up race down and get a pair of pj shorts...

put them on...

run like crazy.

Now for a really messy game. Cover marshmallows with strawberry syrup and throw them into your partners mouth, he he he...

your partner then sucks the syrup off of the marshmallow, and you do it all again to see who came get them most. This was a personal favorite of mine...

but not everyone felt the same way I did he he he.

A game that proved to be one of the hardest was the wet sweat shirt game. Run down get a sweat shirt out of a bucket of water and put it on. Then it has to be taken off and put back in the water before the next person can put it on.

Getting the wet shirt on is harder than it sounds.

We have a very sporty group here on Ida Street and so the competition is fierce!

An all time favorite that is asked for by all the kids when we paly these games is

the egg toss.

Although it is hard to look cool when your egg breaks!

Or if you get in the way of the other teams egg!

And of course watch out if you get caught from behind if someone has an egg left.

Well that is the end for now but be assured we will not wait four years for our next set of games as the Olympics does, I wonder what Michael Phelpps is doing next week????

P.S. GREAT job on the photos Marcia wish I could have posted all 377 of them :)