Cannon Ball

On a sunny afternoon, John and his nieces and nephews invented a game where the kids jumped off the deck while being pelted with a ball (thrown by the all-to-willing Uncle John).

There was some sort of scoring system which roughly had to do with how many balls you could catch in a row.

I think six might have been the record at some point.

Some jumps were less graceful than others, but got the job done.

And some players were a little more apt to blame the pitcher when things didn't go their way.

A great time was had by all, and Uncle John made sure all the kids would remember him.  (Taking them to laser tag and teaching them poker helped too.)

Photos taken by my dad.