We go play paintball!
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008After months of tight deadlines launching Wego, the team decided to have some fun and release deep-seated pressure and stress in a game of paintball. As soon as we got to the Red Dynasty Paintball Park, the geeks turned into soldiers complete with their uniforms and the ladies transformed into Angelina Jolie incarnates as they lead a team of armed men ready to shoot and duck at their command (or not…)
There are 3 rounds of paintball and every round gets harder with goals getting more complicated, requiring more shooting and pumped-up adrenaline . The next scenes appear to have come from a war movie as players boldly run from their hiding places shooting like action stars, rolling on the grass, doing their Rambo moves, while some just hid in their turf occasionaly firing their marker to unsuspecting targets.
At the end of the day it doesnt really matter who shot the most number of enemies or who got the less number of wounds but that everyone didn’t mind getting dirty and sweaty to play this game of the brave. The bruises, wounds and aching old muscles are only some of the souvenirs of paintball, but the real keepsake is the chance to bond with the team and for some, to shoot at that person who keeps bothering them at work (Peace!)
Paintball day was capped by a sumptuous dinner at Sunset Grill and Bar which serves the best buffalo wings. Their buffalo wings have increasing level of spicyness that ranges from 1 to 10 with 10 as the uber spicy. We were warned that level 3 is almost unbearable in spicyness but our hungry paintball players wanted some more challenge and tried the level 10. Those who took a bite of the forbidden chicken wing ended up drinking more milk than they could have wanted… but that’s another story.
