Muddy waters.

Yesterday I discovered the wonderment that is a mud pit.

I'm totally late on the band wagon to this one, but Minneapolis has a hidden beach that boasts a fully-fledged mud pit around the corner from the beach, and holy bajeebus is it muddy. My friend (let's call him T-bot) and I first started exploring the pit by delicately dipping our toes in the gooey, chilly mess. A few minutes later, we had rubbed it all over ourselves and were delighting in the stickiness of the clumps of dirt we would pick up from the bottom of the pit and fling at the sides.

T-bot was braver than I, as he took two gigantic glops of dripping mud and rubbed them all over his face and beard. I was a little more ladylike about it. But we learned a lot that day about how to have fun in a mud pit. So as a special present to you, I give you Anna and T-bot's top 10 list of ways to have fun in a mud pit!

10. Just get in it.
9. Explore all parts of the pit.
8. Cover your entire body in mud.
7. Make sure to get any spots that your friend may have missed.
6. Hold out your arms and say "wraaaaaa!" when you see little kids.
5. If you get some mud in your eye, well, good luck.
4. Muddy up a makeshift slide on the side of the pit. Slide down.
3. Try not to think too hard about what may be inside the mud pit.
2. Probably just don't smell anything in the mud pit.
1. Place large glops of mud in each of your right hands. Pull your right hands way behind your head and up high into the air. Give each other a gigantic, forceful high five. Let the mud, in all its splendorous glory, splatter all over your faces.*

*you best close your eyes for this one