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.