My new favorite game...

After our show yesterday in the gymatorium of Reynolds School in Upper Saddle River, NJ, as we were packing up the set, kids were having P.E. on the basketball court in front of us and were playing the most awesome game called "Builders and Bulldozers." In this game, the kids were broken up into two teams, boys and girls, and the two teams took turns being 'builders' and 'bulldozers'. The object of each round for the builders was to pick up as many plastic cones possible on the court and stand them up, and the object for the bulldozers was to demolish by knocking down all the standing cones with their hands. At the end, if there were more cones down than up, then the bulldozers had won, and if more cones were left standing, the builders had won. At the blow of the P.E. teacher's whistle, the children went mad! A boy builder would try to protect his three newly standing cones, but a girl builder would come in for the kill and knock them all over in one fell swoop! INTENSE! A boy bulldozer would hawk a girl builder, following her as she rapidly tried to stand up cone after cone, but in less than a second of a cone standing upright, the boy would slap it back down. BOOM! And, oh man, who can forget the boy how sat for a good few seconds, zoned out, after whistle had blown, not realizing the game had started, until the teacher told him to "Go!" HILARIOUS! We also had some little cheats, who continued to bulldoze cones even when the whistle had been blown at the end of the round, when the teacher wasn't looking! SCANDALOUS

Man, I really wish I had play this game in elementary school, it almost like a kid war! Also, it's like they were tricked into exercising! You teachers. You sooo sneaky.

On a side note, whenever we pack up the set in front of kids, they instantly recognise us and start calling our character names or start talking to us. Yesterday, my favorite thing a kid said was: "How's it acting with Ruby, duuuude?"