Water Balloon Monsoon

Our Cub Scout pack held its annual Water Balloon Monsoon on Sunday afternoon. We missed it last year due to our vacation, but we figured it was a not-to-miss summer event this year. What's better than a water balloon fight with a huge group of rowdy boys in the middle of August? Sign me up!

The only daunting part was the thought of filling up 100 water balloons for the boys. But then we heard about these magical bunches of balloons that fill 40 at a time and seal themselves.

We bought two different brands on amazon. These multicolored ones are Magic Balloons. They were just okay.

We also had green Bunches O Balloons. They look great in the photo but started to leak and deflate immediately. Bunch o' wasted money, that one is.

Contemplating the deflating balloons.

Water, water, everywhere...  just not actually in the balloons.

After surveying a cooler full of half-deflated and quickly leaking balloons, Gene hand-tied the few that were salvageable and then we borrowed an actual working kit from a friend. We set up our cooler down on the "big kid" side of the field and the boys divided up into teams for the battle.

My boys really wanted to be together, so they settled on teaming up with the younger kids.  

Unfortunately, that meant leaving our cooler of half-filled water balloons on the other side of the field.

For some reason, leaving our balloons perturbed the boys, though I can't imagine why. We mostly left the bigger boys with a cooler full of water and floating balloons while we "borrowed" properly filled balloons from other Scouts.

Splashed!

We ended the afternoon with pizza and popsicles just before it started raining.

And with that, our summer Scouting events are over. And we have a full year before we even have to think about filling 100 balloons for another water balloon monsoon.