Pillow Fight!

We remember having pillow fights as a kid and always loved them. We'd smack our friends upside the head for a few seconds and then, invariably, we'd fall over shrieking with laughter. So when My Ballard tipped off us off to a flash mob pillow fight planned for today, we knew we'd have to go.

Turns out a planned, massive fight is a lot different from those of our youth. First of all, it lasted a lot longer (about five minutes) which added an exercise dimension to the whole thing that we never expected. Who knew you could work up such a sweat and get so out of breath just by trying to hit complete strangers with your pillow?

We also laughed more than we had in a long time. There's something just completely ridiculous about getting hit repeatedly by an object as soft and forgiving as a pillow. When it's dozens of different pillows and people you've never met before doing the hitting, it's even funnier. We never stopped laughing once and neither did anyone else we saw today.

In case you want to know what it might be like to be in a pillow fight on a public street with dozens of strangers, we took some video from inside the scrum just for you.

We would like to know what people on the street who were not in the know thought about the whole thing. If you saw the battle but didn't know it was coming, were you caught off guard or could you tell something was up because there were a bunch of people milling around the triangle on Market Street across from the Majestic Bay? What did it look like from the outside?

After the jump, we have a few more shots we took from the fringes of the fight while taking a second to catch our breath.