Assassin Game - Connor and Friends

This past week had lots of excitement at our house because Connor is working with some classmates to win the annual Assassin game at school. The kids divide up into teams and then have to eliminate each other with water guns. There have been some unfortunate incidents in the past, so the kids are not allowed to hunt each other at school, chase each other in their cars, eliminate each other at workplaces, or generally do anything unsafe. 

Connor's been on some teams in the past, but typically just avoided getting hunted down and he never did much with it. This year he's gone all in with his team and they're pretty focused on doing better. This first week, they were matched up against a team of girls, and the boys on Connor's team spent quite a bit of time figuring out schedules of their opponents, the cars that the girls drove, and hunting them down in general. We spotted a few suspicious cars driving slowly by our house, and one girl that had been eliminated actually came up to our door to ask if Connor was home, hoping to gather some information on him. To help him out, we let him park his car in the garage, and we've been keeping an eye out for any assassins around the house.

The boys ended up winning, most likely because they took it much more seriously than the girls. Connor and his friend Austin ambushed one of the girls at her house, Connor staked out one girl's car in a parking lot for two and a half hours and got her, two of the girls got eliminated while trying to stake out the boys' houses, and the last girl gave up and let the boys squirt her so the boys could have a complete victory.

My favorite story from the week was the Airtag incident. Connor borrowed an Apple Airtag tracker from me, and we set it up on his phone. The boys planned to stick it on one of their target's cars, and they told their teammate to stick it under the car. Somehow he didn't understand, and taped it to the door in a completely obvious and ridiculous mass of tape. Thankfully he sent out a picture of his handiwork and the boys aborted that mission and took off the Airtag before it could be found and before the tape could possibly damage the car's paint job.

This next week they are matched up against a new team, and part of me hopes that Connor's team continues to do well, but for all the time it's been taking, I kind of hope he gets knocked out of the game so we can go back to normal.