Daily Cud Olympics

The other day I had an absolute brainstorm. I am going to hold my own Olympic games. I have a whole list of fun games to play. Three-legged race, sack race, relay race, and a crab race, plus croquet, badmiton, and volleyball. I am thinking about having some sort of eating contest, but can't decide what to eat. Nothing gross, like worms or liver. Maybe how fast can you eat a pie with no hands, or how many Ding-dongs can you eat in a minute. Whatever I decide, I'm pretty sure it's going to involve chocolate.

I also want to have a Rock Paper Scissors contest. A checkers championship would be good, too. Chineese Checkers would be cool, but I don't know if anybody here has a set. Chess would take too long. We're not geniuses out here. Some kind of card game would be good, too, but not poker. Something more summercamp-ish. So far it's a tie between Uno or War. Something nice and lively. A board game contest would be good, too, but Monopoly would take too long. I'm leaning toward Sorry or Life.

Ooh, we also have a potato gun, so there will be a potato shooting contest. If more of us had paintball guns we could have a paintball championship. We have paintballs, but no paintball gun. My husband uses a slingshot to shoot paintballs at the neighbor's dog when he gets loose and hangs out in our yard. It doesn't hurt the dog, but it gets the neighbor's attention. Nothing's more stylish than purple spots on a yellow Lab. I don't think I want to have anything involving real bullets though. I'm also thinking about taking the hooks off of a fishing lure and having a casting contest. Everybody bring their own fishing pole and try to get the lure in a bucket or something.

Of course, I plan on making medals for everybody, even if they're just spray-painted cardboard circles hanging on kitchen twine, with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd drawn on with magic marker.