Paintball Adventures

Because Carter spends his actual birthday at his mom's house he get's two birthdays at our house.  We celebrate with the family before he leaves and then he gets to celebrate with his friends when he gets back. This year we celebrated in Encinitas while we there before he left and today we celebrated with friends by playing paintball.

This was my first time ever experiencing the wars of paintball.  The boys were geared up like G.I.Joe, I was much more limited in my attire.  We headed out to Dragon Man's out east because that way if we need to rent any gear, get bottles filled, etc, it is all conveniently right there. 

Dragon Man's has 5 huge paint ball courses with all sorts of obstacles to hide behind and run around.  There 6 of us total that were playing today. Chad, Carter, Cole (next door neighbor and Carter's best friend) John and Shane Santos (next door neighbors from a previous house we lived in) and of course, ME!

We sweated under the sun in 80 degree weather on the prairie.

We played for about 5 hours, went through about 4,000 paintballs and had a blast!

We played some games by ourselves and a couple of games other people joined us.

We all walked away with at least one decent welt, I walked away with 5 decent welts, skinned knees and elbows.

Carter ended up with paint in his ear, we all had paint and dirt ground into our clothes.

Lots of cleaning when we got home!

Showing off our painted clothes

I kicked some serious paintball butt and had a blast doing it.  I am now tired, sore and aching, but it was so worth it!