Silly Badminton!

After work, I drove home to pick up the dog and then headed over to 805. When I arrived, Vince informed me that he had destroyed Tim in a wii sports tournament and that it had been embarrassing. I had a sudden urge to play badminton, and I knew that there were old badminton racquets at 805. When I proposed the idea, everyone seemed interested and we ran around finding a birdie, and something to make a net with. Sarah, Pam, Vince, Tim and I trekked over to the acquatics park with Navi and Penny (Sarah's pomeranian) and we wandered around in search of some good trees. It was hard to find two trees close to each other with flat land in between, so when we saw one tree in the middle of a flat area, we decided that one person could hold up the rope with the other end tied to the tree, since we did have 5 people. Then we saw a picnic table, and decided to carry that over and use it as the base of the second post for the "net" (rope). After 5 or 10 minutes, we had rigged up a rope at an appropriate level using two extension cords, a tree, lots of tree bark, a stick, and the picnic table. So we started playing! It was really windy, so it was pretty difficult, but we had fun anyway! A woman was walking through the park with her spunky little mutt dog and he chased Navi around for a good amount of time. We were pretty amused by watching this spectacle because this little dog was beating Navi up. Whenever she rolled on the ground, he would pounce all over her! Penny hid in her little dog bag, because she is so shy. After a while, we had destroyed the only birdie we had, and we were just standing around watching the dogs play. A disc golfer came over and yelled at us for having moved the picnic table "into" their course (it was pretty far away) so after he stormed off, we entertained thoughts of revenge where we would stack up all the picnic tables in the park right near the disc golf basket, but move the one table he demanded we move away. At this point we packed up and started walking back to 805, and I decided that since it was windy, Pam, Tim and I should go fly a kite. We invited Ashley, but she didn't want to go. So we headed over to the marina, and the wind was actually great for learning to do tricks with our kite! I can now make my kite do circles!! After a while, I got tired of running through pricker bushes and tall grass to relaunch the kite, so we packed up and I decided to treat my two best friends to indian food at Ajanta. We happily ate delicious indian food on a quiet monday night, and then we all headed home for the night. Yay!