My coworkers strong armed me into playing this game a week ago, and I've been addicted since day one. Fortunately for me, my neighborhood is next to a decent sized park with a ton of pokestops and gyms all clustered together. Been a lot of fun to walk around with my wife (got her into it too) catching pokemon while just happily spending time together.

Then we decided to try some raids.

And it was great! We managed to duo a qwilfish raid on her second day of playing, and have been further hooked since. We keep a wary eye on the raids in that park, and last night we decided to try our luck with a triple Rayquaza raid, all within 200 yards and less than 15 minutes from each other. We knew we couldn't take him alone, but hoped there would be some folks nearby gathering to take him on as well.

We missed the first raid by about 20 seconds, having arrived just a bit too late, but there were plenty of people nearby doing him, and they welcomed us to come with them for the other two.

They mostly seemed to know each other, or at least recognize each other, and there was lots of friendly chatter as we waited for rayquaza to pop for the second raid. One lady had brought her two corgis along, who were doing their best to love and herd everyone they could reach (very well behaved, very cute).

We beat Ray in about 35 seconds, and I used up all my luck in that one go: https://i.imgur.com/4SG7IYw.jpg

My wife didn't catch hers, so we stuck for the next one. People were laughing and comparing 'mons, then we jumped in on the third raid and my wife caught her (non-shiny, but still 3 star) first rayquaza on her very last, unberried throw.

Big thanks to everyone I raided with, it was a blast!