At the beginning of the party, teams were selected by people reaching into a bag to select their bandanna. We had two teams of four and one team of five. We didn't worry about the no spouses on the same team for the sake of just getting the party rolling. It worked out just fine. The teams were perfect.
Blue Team
Red Team, later lovingly rename Team F"red" because he was the star athlete.
Team White
The first game we played was the actual hammer-Hammer Throw. We had five hammers for people to chose from. When we were practicing the police rolled up and sat watching us for awhile. My Dad told everyone to drop their hammers and act normal lol The boys grabbed the footballs and starting passing and the girls milled about until the coast was clear. I do not have any pictures of this situation or the hammer throwing...I was a little stressed thinking my whole field day was about to ruined so I wasn't thinking about documenting it. After the cop left we got started. The Hammer Throw was a great way to break the ice for everyone starting off. We all had to do something goofy. The rest of the day was nothing compared to that. Below shows the next game, Long Jump.
Kelly marked the spot where someone told Mike he had to jump to. He ALMOST made it. lol I'm not sure actually.
Of course the dancer wants to try and grand jete. At least she flexed her foot like a track and field star.
Below are our punters.
My Dad saw this picture yesterday of himself and said, "shankapotomus".
Fred is still mad Dan had the punt of his life and beat his distance.
Below are pictures of the teams going out to the 50 yard line to throw the discuss. When you threw we counted the distance including if the Frisbee rolled. We prayed for good rolls.
Team F"red"
Team White
Ladies watching the Long Jump in the shade.
below is the list of games. We did not do the Torch Relay. No one wanted to run lol We did not do the cannon ball splash either. Everyone was pretty tired of competing by that point, myself NOT included though. I wanted more competition to play in. We couldn't have won at that point but my team could have really brought it in cannon ball splash. Alas, people preferred ending the games early. No problem. It's a democracy not a dictatorship. Team F"red" won Gold. Blue got Silver and White got Bronze. The players got their medals and we drank the night away reminiscing on the day's events.
Balloon shaving was a bust. The razors really could not pop the balloon. We tried. So...next year we joked that we will use straight razor blades.
Look how cute my husband is...so presh.
That was an awesome day with friend's and family. I look forward to doing it again.
