Balloon flashmob.

Josh looks thrilled

 Saturday May 15th 2010

Flashmob. Initially it sounds something rather rude....perhaps it gives you the idea of a group of people who pull down their pants and knickers? Or perhaps thats just my weird imagination lol. A flashmob is a group of people who arrange to attend somewhere all the same time doing something silly and the disappear as quickly as you arrived. We had come to Lincoln to be in such a flashmob. It was a balloon bashing event, near the castle and the cathedral. We arrived about 30 minutes early, and started blowing up balloons and putting them on

Balloon bashing commence

 Joshs pushchair. About 15 minutes later a couple carrying a massive balloon came and sat at the bench next to us. A few minutes later another family appeared on the other bench next to us. Slowly all aorund the square people starting appearing with concealed balloons....lets face it, its pretty hard to conceal a balloon. All of a sudden the cathedral bells starting its normal chime telling us it was 6pm. A whistle blew, and between 30-40 people converged on Lincolns main square bashing each other with balloons. Not since they hanged people in this square has there been so much violence lol.

Tigger and Piglet arrive in Lincoln

 Now you would have thought that the kids would have been enjoying it...and they were, but the real people who were enjoying it were the grown men. I have to admit even this Mr Shiltonpig couldn't help grinning at the site of so many people doing something so silly and random. Josh wasn't having any of it at all, he wasn't even paying attention to it all. That is until he saw the Piglet and Tigger balloons and then he went crazy. We were served some "dinner" which was some chocs and smarties....Josh seemed a little more interested in this. The people who were not involved were looking on in pure bewilderment and who could

Group photo in main square

 blame them. Its not often that you get to see this kind of thing. We all placed a calling card in a tin and one was pulled out of the hat, to which someone won a geocoin. Sadly it wasn't us...never mind. The whole event only lasts 15 minutes and so there was just enough time to get a group photo in and sure enough just as the last one was taken it turned 6.15pm, a whistle was blown and the 30-40 or so people disappeared in different directions bursting balloons as they went. It was team Shiltonpigs 1st falshmob and based on this one, it won't be our last. There are so many things in life which are so serious and was just nice to do

Are you looking at me?

something just absolutely stupid. Couldn't stop laughing all the way back to the car park. Who said geocaching was boring? It was also our 1st event cache which means a new icon for us as well. So this ends our day in Lincoln and one the way back to the car we spotted a face on a wall....pretty cool if we say so ourselves. This was one of many flashmobs occuring all over the world this weekend...we hope they had as much fun as we did. Oh and there is a video of the event done by the Panteras which can be found here.