It's All About Kylee

Couldn'd resist using that title since I just recently did a post about Martin.  Here are a few pictures from Kylee running Cross-Country for Chiawana High School in the Fall of 2010.  Then there photos of her Sweet Sixteenth birthday party.  The theme was Fear Factor and we made sure it was kind of gross and fun like the real show.  Too bad it is no longer on TV. 



Kylee is third from the far right.



Now to the birthday party.  Sorry - lots of pictures and not much commentary.  Kylee would have to identify all the people for me as I surely can't.  Ice cold water (ice cubes floating in the water) trying to get as many balls out as you can and trying not to freeze to death at the same time.

An orange is behind their backs and they have to move as quickly from the starting line, around the ping pong table and to the finish line in the shortest amount of time without dropping the orange.

This challenge was that the kids were tossing marshmellows over their backs and trying to get as many into their partners buckets.

This challenge was really gross as far as I am concerned.  It was a relay race passing real worms from the front of the line to the back.  The person at the front of the line would have to dig up a worm from out of the bucket of dirt and then pass it back and then run to the back so the next person would then have to dig up and pass a worm, and so forth.

In this challenge the kids had to catch as transfer as many live crickets as they could from one bucket to another.  I can tell Elizabeth Spurgeon loves this activity!

This challenge uses a different swimming pool. This one has apples in it so the kids could bob for apples. The only trick was that there are tons of goldfish swimming along with the apples.

Now comes the best challenge of all - eating the gross food.  We had anchovies, jellyfish, snails, larvae, baby octopus and vinegar.  The kids had to roll a die to see what kind of shake they got to eat.  We did have some upchucking into the sink with this event.  Just a note for Michael - while I was shopping for gross food - I found balut.

 

 This challenge was to get a piece of bubble gum that has been covered with whip cream without using your hands.  Then chewing the bubble gum and making a big bubble.  First one done wins.  We had shower caps for those who didn't want to get their hair all sticky. 

 For this challenge there was an orange inside a nylon that was tied around your waist.  The kids had to use the orange to hit their balloon across the room and then back.  Another race!

 Another gross race.  Crack an egg then pass it down the line trying to be the first team to fill the cup.  We did this outside as we knew it would be a messy challenge.

Last of the gross things and this could possibly be the grossest of them all.  We had various toppings like carmel or chocolate ice cream syrup or ketchup or soy sauce, etc. and then live crickets.  If you ate the cricket without any toppings you got more points than if you ate the crickets dipped in something.  Of course, those who didn't want to participate surely didn't have to, as with all of the challenges. 



Pooped out party-goers.

  For refreshments we served pop and cow-patty pie.  By the end of the party, some of the kids were a bit nervous about trying this as they weren't sure what we had come up with for real.  It was really just crunched up chocolate cookies and chocolate pudding served in a disposable diaper.  I think it was the diaper that got them!