Watermelon fun

Check out that large pile of rubber bands in front of those watermelons.  On the 4th of July we had our annual waterslide and then we gathered for a fun contest.  We had four different teams and they took rubber bands and put them around the middle of the watermelon and the winner of the contest was the watermelon that split/burst open first.

Watermelon will stain and so a few garbage bags were worn by those that didn't want watermelon stains on their clothes. 

Here's our first team...the grown up ladies.

Our second team was the grown up men!

The third team was the young boys.

And our final team was the young girls.

Those boys used a lot of teamwork to get their rubber bands on the middle of that watermelon.  I loved walking around and listening to all the teams talk to their teammates and the other teams as they rapidly put rubber bands on their watermelon.

Only a few of us didn't participate but we all had good reasons...except for that cute girl on the air mattress!

And the winner was the young boys!  What a surprise for everyone!  The top flew off and hit one of the nephews in the stomach.  He wasn't hurt, just surprised and had a great story to tell for the rest of the day.

It was a fun game to play and then later we made watermelon sorbet out of the watermelon.