Paintball

Yesterday Nathan & I took our youth kids for another day of paintball. Nathan is a paintball-aholic and has 6 or 7 guns and gear and lets our students borrow if they don't have one of their own. We play with some friends at our friend's huge horse farm with lots of trees and a forest devoted to our paintball games. I was really looking forward to playing but I guess it just wasn't my day. I let everyone else that wanted to play grab the guns first and sat out for the 1st 2 games. Then a girl sat out so I could play. I couldn't get my gun to fire so I came back down and waited for the game to over and grabbed another one of Nathan's guns that another player had just used but wasn't going to play for the next round. So I went with the group that was planned to walk all the way around to the backside of the hill to sneak up on the back of the fort for a surprise attack. We had to be quiet and walk slowly so we wouldn't be heard. We were creeping around for at least 10-15 minutes walking pretty far and I finally got into the perfect position behind an 'enemy'. I crept quietly into position, aimed my gun, prepared to take him out... and when I pulled the trigger my air canister ran out and so my very first and only shot ended up falling maybe 2 feet in front of my gun. Turns out the player who had used the gun was a little too trigger happy and used the entire canister in 3 rounds of playing. So all that walking and one lame pathetic shot. So the next game I was determined to at least shoot a few balls and get at least 1 person out. Sadly, I was taken out by one of the military guys that play with us and was the very first player out after shooting only a few balls. In frustration, I gave up and went to go hang out with the people back at the house & help make lunch for everyone. Maybe next time will be better for me :)

-Heather