Lava Tag

During the summer late at night when we don’t have anything fun planned to do we usually just send out a group text message and we meet at Vets Park. When we get the text everyone knows that it could be one of two things, lava tag or capture the flag.  My personal favorite is lava tag, now when everyone was younger every kid played in the living room and you could touch the ground. Now we play at the imagination station and you only get two steps on the woodchips.  But this isn’t like playing in the living room; people make crazy jumps and climb up things that should be climbed on so they are not it.  We have had times that when we left people are full of scratches, blood, and sweat, its and intense game on a structure that isn’t meant for it.  Have you ever heard of free running? Well that’s kind of what our games look like, but there are no flips, tuck and rolls, or wall running.  So when we start the game and have to decide who is it we let fait decided and choose by what every 19 year old kids would do, bubble gum bubble gum.  Once that last foot is stuck in the middle everyone scatters around the park.  The person that is it has 10 seconds before they can get anyone.  If the person that is it takes more than two steps on the woodchips they have to recount and if some that isn’t it takes more than two, then they are now it.  We usually play for an hour or so, or until everyone is gassed out and doesn’t want to move anymore.  Usually after we are done playing we all drive to our friends house and jump in the pool to cool off, and that’s is follow but a couple games of euchre.  We probably do this like two or three times a week during the summer.