Air Soft

May 22-23, 2015 -This weekend we met up with friends to play some airsoft battles together.
So, on the first day, we had some great battles before settling down for dinner around 10pm before heading to the barn loft to spend the night.
Definitely the most memorable parts for me would be seeing Josiah S. jump off a bridge into a creek (flag in hand) during a game of capture the flag.
Another interesting round was when we were playing a hostage scenario at night with all of the barn lights off.  The "rescuers" formed into 4 fireteams by moonlight and the sound of each other's hushed voices.  Each team was assigned sections of the barn to infiltrate and tasks to rescue the hostage.  My team slipped through the front door and then had to weave through the stuff lying on the floor of the barn without making a sound.  The next phase was to silently climb our way up 15' feet in darkness so great that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.  So, I had to feel my way as I climbed up with an airsoft gun slung across my chest.  Ah...good times! Although, we did lose that round actually...

Anyway, enough with all of the words - it's time for some pictures!

The barn loft

Selfie! 

-Hello!

Most of the guys stayed up to watch a movie - which started after midnight.

I tried to get all of the sleep that I could before...

...daylight!

Everyone groggily gets out of bed - er - sleeping bags and packs up their stuff

Gearing up for another full day

Art.

Neutral face

Happy face!

Ah...yeah...caught applying makeup

Riding in the back of the truck

Looks like Noah's guarding our "6"

And then there was that time when I lost my footing while taking photos and crashed on top of Noah. =)

Waiting to ambush

Wow, and in this round Noah and Isaiah "lit up" our entire team in an ambush

And with such very little cover too...

*shakes head*

Our assault team before they breached a door to a house to root out the guys holding up in a house

Reloading during one of the breaks between rounds

Relaxing and talking during dinner

Shooting, Milking, Climbing

The title consists of three very discordant and unharmonious words – three words so difficult to blend, that they may be deserving of some homogenization.  It gets worse.  Keep reading, and you’ll find that these captions ought to be pasteurized too.

Well, to get started on the right foot, this will be the first photo:

You know good times are in store if its illegal in California (and probably legal in Texas.)

Ben goes over the gun with Abigail…

…and demonstrates a secure and accurate method of gripping it.

I tried to sneakily grab a candid photo during dinner with my phone, but I was obviously caught in the act.

After dinner, it was time to milk the cows, but due to a technical difficulty, the pumper stopped working, so we had to do it by hand.

I decided to “give it a shot”

Pardon the pun.

On afterthought, I actually did have a “shot” while I was milking. 

In fact, almost everyone lended a hand.

Once again, sorry for the puns.

I’m just trying to milk the captions for all they’re worth.

Oh, and I apologize for that pun too.

It looks like…

I mean, my face is just BEAMING!  Oh, never mind, that's the head lamp

…all three of us are enjoying this...

…unlike these two.

Meanwhile, Benjamin worked on fixing the milker and Noah climbed around the beams of the barn and replaced the lights:

He even had us hold the ladder straight up, so he could reach a light he couldn’t climb to.

He really must’ve had faith in our ability to behave to entrust his safety to us.

It was like a “trust fall,” but requiring and relying on the former to prevent the latter.

Though, I bet he had more confidence in the ladder than the former.

And if the latter had occurred, not only could Noah have broken something, but the former would’ve been broken as well – and maybe even the ladder.

Leave a comment if you’ve figured that out.

I just wanted to write something clever so that you wouldn’t be disappointed by the fact that we DID behave and don’t have a picture of us catching Noah.