Yesterday Zina and Claire came over along with Matt. For some reason Zina decided water balloons would be the thing. They decided to use normal size balloons instead of the normal water balloon sized ones. This made carrying them rather interesting for little girls in the age range of 5-10 years. Most of them were literally bigger than their heads. At one point they tried to move them from the back porch to the front driveway and managed to lose half of them just in transport.
They then had the idea of trying to get the boys (Charles and Matt) who decided to shoot back with water guns. Unsurprisingly the water guns were a better choice despite the lower momentary flow volume. It was even worse when the girls decided to go mobile and launch from the Barbie car. They managed to pop another half of their balloons this time mostly on themselves. I don’t think they managed to actually throw a single one of them, much less hit either of the boys.
It all ended rather acrimoniously with the girls become rather frustrated because they were soaking wet and the boys almost completely dry with the water balloon supply almost completely depleted. I had tried to help a bit without getting involved (by, for instance, decreeing “no raids” on the water balloon ammo dump) but I think the girls were unable to overcome a lack of itchy trigger fingers and faulty weapon design.