National Soaking Wet Night Out

I tell ya, nothing brings neighbors huddling together under a tarp like National Night Out. Or was that the rain?

When we were setting up the two tarp tents the rain was light and misty. When we got to the third one, the one we had covering part of the street, it was heavier. At dinner time, it was pouring. And still, no one left. They huddled together under the tents, ate the food and stuck around to play games. I had to convince people that it was okay to go inside our house to hang out/eat. Finally, some listened and hung out where it was warm and dry.

We had a relay race where you had to hold an egg on a spoon while you ran, a "pass the orange" game where you passed it back and forth without using your hands and a checkers tournament. The most ironic game of the night was the water balloon toss. At that point, we were pretty wet already, so everyone went crazy and it turned into a water balloon fight at the end, in the rain. Yes, it was awesome.

Our neighborhood rocks. We party hard. No matter what the weather.