*Splat*
On Saturday, Cody and I went out to Pev's Paintball just outside of Leesburg. It was a birthday celebration for one of the kids, and it involved about 12 kids and 4 adults. Naturally, the week before the birthday party the kids were excited and "trash talking" all of us adults, the birthday boy in particular. When we were gearing up Saturday morning, and counting out our paint, he said "what, we only get 200 rounds each? Well, it's a good thing I brought my own!"
He then turned to me and said "I've got 200 rounds for you that I'm going to shoot you with." Then turned to his sister, dad and neighborhood dad and said in succession "And 200 for you, 200 for you, and 200 for you. I'm going to splatter you all!"
When we got to our field, the field judge said "Ok, what are the teams?" Naturally, ALL the kids yelled "Kids against adults! Kids against adults!" Heck, it was a birthday party, and I think all the adults half figured it was going to be like this. So we agreed and into the field we went.
I won't give a play by play recounting of how it went. I'll just point out some highlights, such as:
Having the birthday boy miss me with every single shot in the first round and me tagging him in the head on my second or third shot.
The adults winning all 5 games, even though we were outnumbered each time.
"Bunkering" one of the "Soon-to-be-Sponsered" kids. Bunkering is where you rush their hiding place and run by at full speed and just spray paint behind it as you go. The same kid had just explained it to me the round before. I'm a fast learner.
Cody providing the "cover fire" for my bunkering run. He had joined our team for the last two games, I think simply 'cause he wanted to be on my team, which I thought was really cool. I told him what to do, and he just stood right up and started pegging the bunker in question. It rocked.
Pegging the birthday boy in the fourth game, right in the chest, with one shot, from across the field. I was yelling at him from across the way "SEE!? ONE SHOT! THAT'S ALL IT TAKES!!!" Yes, I sunk to his level. I'll probably stay there all week too, just to gloat.
We had a great time, and Cody really enjoyed it. I'm hoping we can do it more often, as it was outdoors type of fun, which we don't do enough of. The whole hobby is damn expensive though.
But then, most of guys’ hobbies are, it seems. Ah well :)