Cops and Robbers!

Just got in from playing cops and robbers with the neighborhood kids. If you've played it, you know how great it can be. If you haven't, you have been robbed (no pun intended) of a childhood, my friend. We've played it here in Terra Maria since I moved here in 2001 (the "originals" are in college now), and it's been more or less of a tradition every year. The bases have moved from porch to porch as people grow up and leave, but the game has yet to change: Robbers start at the porch of a house on the west side of the cul-de-sac, go out across the street, cops give them 30 seconds and then go out and chase them. Robbers try to get back to the porch without getting tagged; if they get half of their team in safely, they go back out. If not, the teams are reversed and the new robbers head out into the woods. The routes have been used and reused hundreds of times each, but the excitement of the game never goes away, and I think that's what makes it so great.

Ew. Tomorrow's Sunday. That means that the next day is Monday. You know what's no fun about Mondays? School. Oh well. We get out the 27th of June, I believe. It's not too much longer.