That's gotta hurt !!

After several weeks of procrastination and indecision, we finally organised ourselves enough at work to go and run around in a forest and shoot each other with paintball guns !!!

I was a little apprehensive, and the closer the time crept to 3.00pm yesterday the scared-ier and scared-ier I was feeling. When we got to work and I realised that the only other girl who works for the company had chickened out and it was just me and 13 guys I felt even more freaked out.

The worst part, honestly, was the few minutes right up until I got hit for the first time. I think it was the not knowing how bad it was going to hurt when I became a target. After the first hit I knew what I was up against, and it really wasn't that bad at all.

I have learnt, however, that when weighing the scales between "layering yourself with as much padding as possible so it doesn't hurt when you get hit by a small projectile travelling at 300ft per second" and "dark ninja cat-burglar type clothing" you're better off blending into the trees and hoping no one sees you. It's great if it doesn't hurt when the pellets hit you, but probably even better that the opposition doesn't see you to aim for you in the first place :P

Even taking into account the bruises (and there are only a couple of them that I even noticed when I woke up this morning), it was a total blast !!!

Can't wait for the next game. And the other girl from work ... doesn't know what she missed !!!