I have actually been to a foam party!  The kid and I did a “Foam Glow” event at RFK Stadium in 2016.

I occasionally get to wondering if I can still walk more than a quarter-mile without dying, and events like these let me find out in a low-stakes way.

The kid, who was 13 at the time, thought it sounded like fun and said he’d do it with me. So we prepped for a couple weeks by walking around our neighborhood listening to various playlists and fighting over whose turn it was to pick a song.

The night of the event, the hubs drove us wayyyyy over to RFK Stadium and watched as we got our gear, donned our white shirts (the better for blacklights) and run bibs, and then shook “liquid glow” stuff all over each other like it was a shower. Then he waved us off.

It was a balmy July night for a long walk on a slanted track, and we had a lot of fun. We got blasted with foam cannons at regular intervals and spattered with that liquid glow stuff at irregular intervals from folks who were smarter than we were and brought squirt guns to spray the stuff around.

After the “run,” there was a party with blasting loud music and dancing. The kid had a blast, but after the walk, I was just ready to sit. Thomas says he remembers a big stage and a “don’t be that guy” lecture from the DJ. I remember being sopping wet even for the (long) ride home and wearing a bandana to keep the color out of my already dyed hair.

But what was really great about it was doing something outdoors with the kid and a billion other people. 

All in all, it was a lot of fun, and I might actually be up for doing this again. But it looks like the group that ran the one I went has gone belly up, so I’m glad I got to do it once. If anyone gets wind of something like this happening again, let me know! I’d be willing to travel!