New Jersey 2006

	New Jersey 2006
Water-Balloon Volleyball Click a picture to enlarge it. Photos and Articles by Matt Lurrie
Ever play volleyball? It's a wonderful sport. But until recently, I had never gone to hit the thing soaring over the net and, instead of feeling a thud as the air inside the bass compress and the direction of the ball changed, I was met with a shock: what I thought would be a ball was a water balloon, and what I though would be the clothes I would wear for the remainder of the night actually ended up hanging on my chair drying. This is, of course, because I had stumbled upon a game of water-balloon volleyball.
	The game is quite simple. Staff Assistant Alexa spent the better part of the morning filling up 75 water balloons (and wanted everyone to know).
The object is to launch the water balloon with your partner with a towel, and to subsequently catch it. Each exploded water balloon on your side is a point for the other team.
	The trick is that because it is night, it is harder to see the water balloon, unless all of a sudden a scream is heard and one explodes on or near you.

It took very little time for campers to get the hang of this.





Amy was the "ball feeder"" so-to-speak. As everyone called her name in hopes of receiving a water balloon, she gently tossed them into the crowd.
	And, of course, not every single water balloon went to the game.

In the end, score keeper Mark (who Jack called the most honest person in the entire camp, unmistakably) told teams that the score was 25-24, with the girls in the lead, with two water balloons left. The next of was put into play, and it exploded on the boy's side, guaranteeing the girls team the win.


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