Operation 8th Birthday Party: Obstacle Course

The last game before lunch was a timed run through the Obstacle Course we built for the kids.

Nicole, Brice and I assembled the Obstacle Course that morning, to ensure our own kids did not have an unfair advantage (by practicing before the rest of the kids saw it)... so when we turned the corner to see the obstacle course, it was the first time any of the kids had seen it.

Given that, they took to it like fishes to water.
Here is how the Obstacle Course was set-up:

1. QUICK FEET: First, the kids would have to move their feet quickly in and out of crisscrossing ropes that covered a 5x5 foot square 2. UP & OVER: Second, the kids would have to climb up a slippery wall of wood and slide down the other side 3. UNDER THE RADAR: Third, the kids would have to crawl on their bellies under a camouflage netting 4. WEAVING IN & OUT: Forth, the kids would weave in and out of 5 poles in the ground as they ran closer to the finish line 5. ROLL THE SPARE TIRE: And last, the kids would have to pick up an big old tire and role it along as they ran to the finish line The kids were seriously AWESOME at the obstacle course, every single one of them. We timed them completing the course, and upon crossing the finish line each of them received a cool working digital army watch. Which again, removed all points of contention around the fastest time and whose it was.