Thursday, June 19, 2008

Paintball

Mandy and her co-workers played paintball a few week back as a "team building" exercise and had such a good time some decided to go back and play again and invite friends, family and neighbors.

Below is what we all joked as the "before" picture. Note the smiles, lack of sweat and general ora of good paintballing every one has.




This is the about 3 games in. To be honest I really suck at paintball. It's a little odd with my up bringing to point a gun at someone. Now if you were a cute fuzzy animal I'd drop you like a bad habit but people were a little different. The first 2 games I was out in 30 seconds. In game 3 I finally figured this whole deal out and stayed in a little longer. Sure I still went out but I stayed in longer and when I finally walked out I was completely exhausted. As you can see there was a bit of sweating going on.



This is what we all joked as the "after" picture. Notice the lack of smiles and for that matter people. We like to say, "there is no smiling in paintball". Some gave up and went home others decided to give their ammo to the remaining group.


We played until we ran out of ammo. We went through 8000 paint balls between 15 of us. My team finally won by waiting out the compitition. We were all so low on ammo we just waited until we didn't hear the splat after the shot from the other team. When we walked the flag in (we were playing capture the flag) I had 3 rounds and one other guy only had 7 or so if I'm remembering right. We played 7 games total and a week later my legs still hurt...not from the paintball but from the running. So all in all, I recommend it but be prepared to be exhausted.

Monday, June 09, 2008

This is how we Roll

Well, it's a been a few weeks since all this took place but we painted the guest bedroom, got a new matress and bed set for the master, moved the queen to the guest and then this past weekend went out and ordered a small armoir, night stand and head board for the guest bedroom. So now our down stairs bathroom, guest bathroom and guest bedrooms are painted. I' 'm thinking we move into there and paint our room, Mandy's not seeing it quite that way. It's really a scorcher hear these last few days so we'll probably hang out and do....nothing.