I also went to the Rifle River on some of these adventures! One of my fondest memories of these adventues was playing Zombie Tag. I'm not sure who made-up the game or how it came to exist, but it IS AWESOME. One of the best versions of tag...in my opinion. It goes like this, on person is the "Zombie" and they must tag the other players. But, the person that is IT, or that is the "Zombie" cannot run. Of course everyone else can run from the Zombie.
Anytime that a person is tagged by the "Zombie" is now also IT and a Zombie. Now, this means there are 2 people that are IT. These two "Zombies" can now work as a team to tag/touch the remaining people that can run and are not it. The number of Zombies continues to grow as more people are tagged, until there is but 1 person remaining that is "Alive" or not "Zombified"/IT. I can't remember how the next person that is IT at the beginning of the game is decided, but I think the person that was tagged first is now the lone "Zombie"...if . . . Read More..

I was drifting through Rifle River memories and I came upon a great piece of the whole experience. A young man, maybe a little older than myself that went by the name: "Nathaniel". This guy was great. He looked kind of like a mixture between Donkey Lips from "Salute Your Shorts" and the actor that played as Macaulay Culkin's character's older brother from the movie "Home Alone". He was not all that bright as I recall and was kind of a Mook. But, it was fun to goof around with him and say is name in that certain way, "Nah-THAAAN-Yul". Anyway, just though of him...wonder what he's up to these days?!...

Noels recent memory about being in Elementary School and stuffing things in his mouth, reminded me about a time that we were learning about the 5 types of tastes and learning about which sections of the tongue taste certain flavors.  To test this, we had an assortment of items like sour juice, bitter coffee, sweet sugar and much more.

Everything was fine until the students placed coffee beans on my mouth and I practically choked.  I spit them out immediately and blew so hard that the coffee beans went all over the place.

It was a complete mess.

When my parents divorced, Dan and I used to go to my dad's apartment.

At times, my dad had a room mate, Scott Mitchell and he was a lot of fun. Dan and I got a long with him really well. And he had really long hair and a beard as well.

Here are some random things I remember form staying over there every other weekend for about a year or so:

• We used to play Dragon Warrior 5 with my Dad and would play the poker mini game to try to get some kind of sword. (We didnt care about the game at all, we just really liked playing poker)
• There was the ghetto couch that Scott slept on.
• We used to do dishes a lot. My Dad always made us put the dishes away as well as clean the dishes after he provided us with food for dinner.
• One time, we went to the pool and had a lot of fun in an indoor heated pool. Something funny happened here, but I dont recall.
• Dan and I used to go rollerblading in the apartment complex and go for walks and one time we caught our parents making out with each

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Nick A. and I were pretty much trampoline addicts. We worked and did lawn work for some neighbors across the street and they had the coolest yard for kids growing up. (A full court basketball court and a trampoline.)

I need to post a full memory of all the yard work we used to do there, but this is all about the crazy games we used to play on the trampoline.

Nick always came up with the most crative games to play on the trampoline. He probably remembers more than I do.

But I always enjoyed our acrobatics more than the games.

We were very good at back flips, front flips, jump on your knees then flip, jump on your knees then flip back (this was the most difficult).

We could time our jumps so that we could steal each others jumps and the result would pop the other person up very high.

Many times, this type of action would result in catastrophic ball crunching landings on the bars at the end!!

The most we could have at a time was 3, but I recall we had 4 people on at one time . . . Read More..