RUNNING MAN w/ JO

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Run fast for your mother run fast for your father

Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers

Leave all your love, and your longing behind

You can't carry them with you if you want to survive

I should probably explain. Today was Joey's birthday and Judie had secretly planned a set of Running Man games for her as a surprise. Running Man is a Korean variety show, it's like hide and seek but the hider has to complete a mission and there are multiple seekers? Anyway the k-pop fans in our group pretty much LOVE it.

We had a BBQ at Jells Park...which I forgot to take photos of because I was starving and busy stuffing my face. Let's skip ahead to the game.

Caf, Jess and I made the tags like the night before, they turned out swell.

Our tags/shirts.

We looked pretty damn awesome. People kept asking us if we were part of some kind of club or something.

Group shot :D

Judie briefed us on the first task: it was basically everyone vs. Joey. We had to try and catch her while she ran around collecting hidden scrolls in Jells Park.

Poor Jo LOL. Standing all by herself while Judie tried to explain to us commonfolk how the game works.

Because it was 10v1, us catchers had a handicap where we had to be tied together.

Bra & Chi

Tied by the legs

Jes & Vi

By the feet

Kat & I by the waist LOL

Actually I think we didn't get the bad end of the deal compared to the people tied by the legs

Wil & Caf were also tied by the feet

But Wyn and Cho got to be tied by the wrists only

Jo had to try and piece together a puzzle from the scrolls, which was Heiman's face AHAHA.
She got caught though, after like 10 minutes. It was surprisingly hot and sunny today so we ran outta energy pretty quickly...loool
Haha looks like she still had fun though.

Joey's Mission: Find Heiman and piece him back together on the designated table before being caught.

Since it was so short we had another round, Joey got 2 bodyguards to help her: Brandon and Chooi-ee.

Us catchers got paired off again but with less of a handicap, we were only tied at the wrist this time.

Caf & Kat.

I'm genuinely scared for Kat.

Yeah.

Brandon's abbreviated nametag was "BRA" which got a lot of stares and a few people actually came up to us asking what it meant. Which Caf, Jess & I LOLed at, we intentionally made it BRA to see what would happen.

Sorry Brandon :p

Not everything got recorded, but there's a nice monologue by Caf in that video!
I think I didn't explain my camera properly to Judith, sorry :(
But anyway Chi & Wilson got Brandon out by ripping off his tag, which got Wilson KO'ed I think. And then Joey got caught again :D ahahaha.
It's okay, we have our memories! Although knowing me I'll probably get dementia pretty early on so who knows.

Needed to cool down after Round 2.

Tired EXHAUSTED but happy

Piecing Heiman's face together...
The twins were overseas, thank god because I think they would have made the game friggin' terrifying. Like if one of them tackled me I'd probably break in two.

Resting for a bit under this bench.
Jo & I went to get a big Ice Tea for everyone while they discussed the next game. Since I'm a weakling and she was super tired from being chased all day, we were the next cameramen.

The 3rd round was a team vs team. Check out Wynne's strategy for protecting her tag.
Kat, Jess, Chi, Wilson & Wynne
vs
Brandon, Caf, Vi, Chooi-ee & Judie

It was very entertaining to watch.

After that we drove back to Wynne's house. There's like a massive lawn just across from her also massive house.

Some people still had energy somehow?? Whereas I would be happy not moving for the rest of my life.

BUBBLESS.

These guys played Ultimate Frisbee.

Wilson. Just. LOL.

And us lazy bums sat and played with bubbles. I think it was me, Wynne and Jess.

After that we gave Joey her presents.

She obviously enjoyed this present LOL
Then after that some of us drifted inside and watched tennis while slowly dying and some hardcore people stayed outside and played even more.

HAPPY 19TH B'DAY JO