Firstly, you have to get up at a ridiculous time in the morning to get there by 7:30am after a one and a half hour drive, secondly, it's freezing at that time of day in the winter, and thirdly...well obviously getting hit is painful.
One of the highlights of the early drive on Saturday however, was that crossing the Hawkesbury River was absolutely breathtaking, with mist rising from the water and fog shrouding the early morning sun. We actually stopped and got out to take pictures...well, Sam (the one who wears glasses) who had a camera took pictures, the rest of us just froze while admiring the view....if I can get Sam to send me his pictures I'll post them up. There was a professional photographer on the bridge taking pictures too.
I have to say that paintball was not *quite* as fun as I was expecting it to be...compared to Lazer Zone, I definitely enjoyed Lazer more. Maybe cos I was freezing for the first half of the morning and grumpy from lack of sleep....it did get more enjoyable as the day went along. And getting hit made things more exciting. I didn't really do much in the first game (capture the flag), just spent most of the time hiding behind the barricades haha...but the game where one team goes hiding in the bushes was fun, and so was the one played in the long trench....However getting hit in the mouth by a paintball is not fun...even with the mask, it felt like my lip had been fully busted, but it turned out it was only bleeding very slightly and the rest of the wetness in my mouth was paint. Paintballs don't taste very nice =( At least I didn't accidentally shoot myself in the face like Cecilia, hehehe...
The last lot we played was where you had to shoot the other team's nominated "governor" to win...during the very last game I actually managed to make my way across the playing field to the other team's fortress...took a few shots at the governor, missed, and ran out of bullets. LOL. If only I could aim better. Then I was trying to look for fresh bullets on the ground, actually found one (!), and was going to try again, but got shot in the leg by someone on the other team who finally realised I was there. Owwwww.
And that was the resulting bruise. Nice isn't it? I don't think I've ever had a bruise that big before.
One of the other things about paintball is that you have to keep an eye on the $$$$$$$. At about $20 for 100 paintballs...hrmm, yeah, don't think I'll be going again for a while =P
9 comments:
Owwwww... my goodness woman, that's gotta hurt, I have to say it sounds bleeding painful.
I wish there was pain-free skirmish *sighs*
Is that your arm or leg?
woo! didn't get shot once!
Didn't I say leg in the post? Yeah, that's my right leg....at least it's on the top and not somewhere I sit on, that would have been bad hahaha...
Ooooh I second Trees ;)
I third her!
painful. The Paintball in 10 Things looks like more fun.
Yeah, the paintballs were a lot less liquid than I expected them to be, compared with the ones in 10 Things....I mean, they still go *splat*, but they're not runny.
i'm no scientist..
but it was cold that day... so mebbe they were liquid.. but they solidified as they came in contact with the chilling air when released from the gun?
OR not...
Apparently you can get other paintball equipment like grenades. "Can" as in if you do this type of thing regularly.
It's not as much fun without the pain. I mean, unless the paint was indelible.
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