29 year olds don’t always have to act like grown-ups…

Sometimes you just want to do something totally fun and crazy. You don’t want to act adult, you just want to have fun without worrying about anything else. This weekend that fun and crazy thing happened to be a monstrous mud/food fight out at Utah Lake.

A friend of mine initially came up with the idea “Day-o-Messiness” we took the idea and ran with it.

Location: Utah Lake

Our Goal: Get as messy as possible, and have fun doing it.

The day couldn’t have turned out any better. A few nights before the event, we went shopping to purchase the perfect food items. Obviously the items purchased had a few stipulations. They had to be throw-able, biodegradable, and MESSY!!!

We bought oatmeal, spaghetti, eggs, flour, pudding, whip cream, and mashed potatoes. (The comment was made while we were walking through Walmart to the effect of; there are children starving in third world countries, and we are purchasing food for the sole purpose of flinging it at eachother.) Sometimes you just have to make a sacrifice for fun though, so we did.

Making all of that food took a little while, cooking the spaghetti, the oatmeal, making the pudding and mashed potatoes etc, but we knew it would be worth it, and it was.

The day of the event, we all gathered at a central location. People coming were instructed to bring buckets and various food items to throw.

The most important instruction of the day though-- don’t wear anything that can’t be ruined—you will most likely be throwing out your clothes afterwards.

After a brief (brief actually being an hour) pit-stop in the Walmart parking lot to wait for the rest of the people, we were then off to the lake. Sidenote: in that time at Walmart, I managed to get yelled at by a man parked in his truck and trailer at the back of the parking lot. We were playing catch with a football, and I may or may not have missed a few that bounced off his truck. Sue me.
A. How was I suppose to know he was in there?
B. What is he doing, living at Walmart? Hasn’t that movie already been done?

Anyway, we found a great spot at the lake, right before we got there it started pouring rain. It was like we were meant to have a mud fight, mother nature cooperated with us fully.

We got out of the cars and just went to town. Spaghetti was thrown, eggs were smashed, flower was flying all over the place. The food was gone quickly, and after that tackling, sliding flinging, and shoving into the mud took place.

Every part of us was covered in mud. It was so much fun. The puddles were huge from the rain and the spot we picked was just one large patch of mud. Pretty sure the fishermen fishing next to us thought we were crazy, but I’m also sure a small part of their hearts were jealous that they couldn’t join us.

I had food, mud, water, and egg in my eye, but I didn’t care, it just meant it was time to fling more mud, or wrestle someone to the ground. I’ve never been so messy in my life. As people were getting up, others were being tackled to the ground, if you happened to have a clean spot on your clothes, no mercy, you were thrown into a puddle.

After a long time of playing we started to get a little cold and figured it was time to ‘wash’ off in the lake. For those of you who know Utah lake, you realize it’s so dirty that’s not really possible. We were able to get in and clean off as best we could though. (thanks again to the fishermen for letting us scare away their fish by getting into the water.)

We covered the car seats in plastic bags, and made our way home. We were all really cold at this point. The only downside of the day was the fact that it was chilly. The next time we do it—and yes, there will obviously be a next time—it will be on a warmer day.

All in all, Day-o-Messiness= Huge Success!!

You probably can't tell because everyone's a mess, but in the picture above, i'm in the second row, third person from the left.