The Colorado Adventure

What do you get when you have 42 kids with upwards of 84 airsoft guns and thousands of ammo pellets? I don’t know I wasn’t actually there, but I’m sure it was interesting. On the 5th Monday of a month Joel’s CAP squadron has a goof off Monday. Well yesterday was the 5th so they had an airsoft war. I dropped off Joel, Nick and Austin at the church and they caravanned up into the mountains. It was like a secret mission – ‘Where are you going?’ I asked. ‘Up into the mountains’ was the reply, duh I knew that! Joel had 4 guns with him, Nick was armed to the teeth and Austin has 6,000 pellets to shoot. Add them to the mix of 39 other kids and I’m surprised there weren’t more injuries. (One kid took a pellet to the ear, but they pulled it out. Joel took a pellet to the chin and has a red mark on his face.) The kids were well prepared for battle, they wore long sleeve shirts, goggles, gloves, pants, duct tape armor and hats, but still you’re a little exposed.

While they were eradicating each other with airsoft pellets, the girls and I went to friend’s house to play Legos. Well, they were supposed to be playing Legos while the moms chatted. It ended up being a free for all while the moms chatted. Then we took her son with us to the whale pool. We had to swim indoors at first (because someone pooped in the whale pool.) I hadn’t been indoors at our rec center in awhile; I didn’t even know they had a kiddie pool in there! Hannah was swimming back and forth and then would come up to me and say, ‘I do good?’ Finally we got the all clear to go outside to the whale pool. Grace got inside the baby whales’ mouth and said, ‘Ahhh, I’m krill!’ which I pointed out wouldn’t be the case since the whale looks like a sperm whale. We only swam outside for 30 minutes, but that sun will suck your energy faster than my evil cat can fly up the stairs when she sees Maisy (and that’s pretty fast.) Joel called and we went to pick up him and his friends. We went to dinner since everyone was hungry and Joel regaled us with tales

Joel said they played war first and then played the president game. That’s where a band of cadets were like secret service agents protecting 1 cadet in the middle. Everyone else was the bad guy jumping up and spraying the faithful service men with pellets. Once the president was shot you had to get a new guy to be him, secret service men could go 2 shots though. Sounds like a lot of fun. They were supposed to stay for longer, but came back after 5 hours of play. Joel, of course, proceeded to tell us how cool the others guns were and how he really needs an M-16 version. We had a good dinner though and Bethany had her face painted.

Hannah had her arm painted, but she smeared it all over before I could get a pic. All in all a good day.