Ever been to a giant water fight? I’m most certainly happy to say that I have. It’s incredibly fun. During a hot summer day, getting completely soaked within 3 seconds is very refreshing. It’s even more fun when it’s with a whole group of random strangers who are there to have fun just like you. We have an annual water fight here, and it’s the third annual this time. I went on the first annual and had a blast. Pictured above is my wife. Not showing her face is 100% intentional. Sorry! 🙂
Here’s me getting more ammo. Obscured face is also intentional. Hey at least you know I wear glasses! Oh wait. You probably already knew that anyway. 🙂
The water fight takes place every year at around July 11th or whatever Saturday it is, at Stanley Park’s Lumberman’s Arch. Over 300 people are usually expected to show up. That’s a lot of water, very fast.
One thing I like is that teams are starting to form, and the teams usually show up in uniform! Very cool. People have fun for sure with interesting little props like scuba gear, or an umbrella, this year there was even someone wearing a gas mask!
And here’s a gallery of how epic the whole thing was!
Everything was totally awesome, except for the fact that I messed up my phone. I had my cellphone in my bag as I was running around. The bag soaked through, which normally wouldn’t have been a problem, except my phone was at the very bottom of the bag. It sent 4 random text messages to my friends before ceasing to function properly (buttons stopped working). Dried it out in the sun, and it works fine, but the moisture caused some of the silver to peel. A replacement housing is in order.
I was pretty sure that it would be okay, otherwise I wouldn’t have done that. I guess I under-estimated how much of a water-magnet I was. 😛
The biggest problem wasn’t the phone malfunctioning but the ugly peeling of the silver parts of my phone. I guess if it was an old plastic phone, I’d be okay with it, but mine is a pristine u708 Samsung Anycall as some of you may know.
A youtube clip of this sexy phone:
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Oh shi~ Thats some good weather, Burnabys been all glomy and s#it. Is this Anually or once in a life time?
Once a year man! You’re in Burnaby? It was sunny on Saturday, which was when it happened! You could have gone there man!!
Man talk bout crappy weather for summer, I forgotten that it was actually sunny yesterday…Bah, Thanks for the Info though
Yeah, today’s weather wasn’t very good. It was actually alright in the morning, sunny, but cool. Perfect. After that, it started to cloud up too much. I don’t mind the rain, but already our summer is short. 🙁
Looks like it was a lot of fun, i would love to do that. 🙂
Hey I like your site! Gonna add that to my blogroll.
I’ve always wanted that Super Soaker with the backpack to store water and four choices of nozzels, one of them being at least .50 caliber.
It looks awesome. Unfortunately we’ve yet to have a day that reached above 30 here, so none of that for us, although the abnormally cool weather is very nice over all.
It sounds like your weather is about the same as mine. Most of the time it’s below 30 here. It’s kinda cool that the second Saturday of July has turned out to be good weather every time for the past three years of this event.
If you can, check out the facebook pictures, there’s this one guy who’s got this custom pressure regulated backpack with a garden hose attachment. It’s insanely cool!
Looks like a lot of fun! Great way to cool down during the summer~
I wish it would happen more often… only once a year. 🙁
Too bad there isn’t one here in Toronto…there’s some really big anti gun policy here…even a water gun can get called for cops by neighbours…at least you had fun ^_^.
Wow, why is that? Is it a crime/gun violence issue? I’m sure if it’s a regulated event, it would be okay, right?
Annual water fight? That’s pretty cool! Haven’t played one for so long I forgot when I’ve last played one.
It’s futile to hide your face; we know how you look like on AFN, and your ‘in action’ pic looks pretty cool too XD
Well, you AFN members are special guests on my blog, so you guys get the extra privileges. 🙂 Glad you like the other pix! 😀
The event happens every year, and it’s their third year. Did you go to the first one then?
Alas, the last time I’ve set foot in the Americas was around 6 years ago… orz
I just realized that you changed your display pic on FB XD
I was going to say “if it’s free, don’t worry too much over it” but when I looked at the phone, maybe it wasn’t ^^U you should put your gadgets in a ziplock next time, that way you can carry them without worrying about them.
I haven’t seen that kind of events around here (I need to get in touch more about what happens in LA ^^U), it would be super special awesome if we had something like a giant water fight, but I can already see parents suing someone because “my kid got hurt with his water pistol” or some nonsense like that.
a zip lock! that’s a good idea! I’ll have to do that next time. Yeah, I got the phone in Hong Kong, so had to pay full price for it.
LA? It would be so nice… too bad about America though… They do sue anything that they can for some reason. 🙁
Yep, around here it seems you really need to put everything on paper stating you’re not responsible of what might happen, like those porn sites with their warning page at the beginning, that way if minors say they didn’t know it’s not the website’s fault XD
Wow, that’s absolutely terrible. I know that the legal system in the US is pretty ridiculous at times, but that really takes the cake. Porn is becoming easier and easier to find now. A net nanny is almost a must in today’s internet age. What a sad day…
That’s a lot of fun, getting wet and all that ^^. I wish we have something similar here in Toronto.
I don’t see why you can’t start something. Just make a facebook group/event and start inviting people!!
I actually was in Vancouver last week (just passing through though)… should’ve dropped by ^^ Great weather as always. I really should move over there.
Too bad we don’t have that in Toronto… Wow, there’s sure a lot of people from TO posting here.
Oh dang! Well, if you’re passing by next year on the 2nd Saturday of July, then be sure to join in the fun!
There are a lot of TO posters here, eh? Why… possibly enough to start a 3-degree WATER FIGHT!!! 😀
It’s amazing that I haven’t heard of something like this happening here in the Land of Eternal Summer (aka the state of Florida). Then again, we’ve got so many water parks to wreak havoc in no one will probably bother to set up an epic water war.
It’s so mind-numbingly hot here. ;_;
Florida is known for oranges, right? I’m not sure what Vancouver is known for… so at least you guys got that.
A water park is the perfect place to start a water fight! I don’t see why not!
Oh yes, we’re very big on oranges here. I remember going out to another town to visit a winery and driving by endless fields of orange groves. It sure was pretty. (Though such a sight is rare these days as groves are being sold for store and home development…)
We’re also big on strawberries. There’s a place here called Plant City that’s loaded with strawberry farms. They’ve even got a water tower that looks like a giant strawberry!
I sometimes wonder what they inject in those oranges to make them grow so big. Though I noticed that Sunkist oranges are becoming more and more tasty over the past couple of years. It’s like they found something else to make it taste good.
I didn’t know you guys are also big on strawberries! I used to not like strawberries, but I like them a little bit more now thanks to my wife. 🙂
Strawberries and orange make good smoothies! :9
that looks like a lot of fun, nvr been to water fight before, the closest was probably water balloon fight ^^
People were lobbing water balloons everywhere at the water fight. It was quite the mess to clean up afterward from what I heard…
Oh man, I keep forgetting about this every year… I remember waking up really late when this was happening. I remember it because I saw your Facebook status when I woke up and like “OH SHI~! That’s today!” XD
Next year… next year I will make you wet! … that did NOT come out right… neither did that. Stop thinking dirty thoughts!!!
Just you wait! You’ll be sorry next year! O_O
Wow that looked like so much fun. The weather looked amazing.
It definitely was fun. I wish there was another one though. It’s REALLY HOT today!