As Benjamin finishes out his senior year, I'd love his focus to be on AP tests and finals, but his focus is on much more enjoyable things. :)
He has signed up to be a part of water wars - a local tradition in which seniors team up and try to squirt each other with water guns; gang war style. They hide behind trees in front of people's homes and ambush them as they leave for school, they drive by the house trying to catch them outside, they follow them around town as they run errands to squirt them as they enter a store, etc. It requires constant vigilance and total focus, not leaving much mental space for studies. Even sleep is sacrificed as early morning stake-outs and late night planning sessions dominate the schedule. And it lasts for weeks through multiple elimination rounds!! Definitely an intense endeavor. The prize? $1200 to the winning team. Worth it? Not sure, honestly, but definitely lots of fun memories.
When you get someone, you take a picture with your victim(s) and post it to the instagram page as proof. So far, Benjamin has carried the team and eliminated every single opponent himself.
His team:
He also played in the powderpuff volleyball championship last week. His team was seated first place after the initial rounds but then the server lost his focus and flubbed enough that they got eliminated early in the finals.
He also has been doing lots of lawn mowing for neighbors and attending the temple with friends.
Hard to believe these two were once the little ones on the top of the black board in this picture of the most epic chair fort, not long ago:
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