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Paintball Event 2008 Blog

The Journey:-
Well for me and Ickle it started @ 8am we had to drop off my daughter at ickles parents 60 miles away. From there we travelled a further 140miles ish to the airport to pickup Logik. Now, he had told me that he was going to fly into the airport @ 7pm so I arranged for every1 to meet at that time. But the night before the event he told me that he was going to be there @ 1pm ish so we had to make a special stop just for him (tha furking Mick :P) when I arrived @ the airport I spotted Logik straight away. He had this tiny little sign saying M&I which I didn't see until he picked it up! lol 

The Arrival:-
We finally got to the campsite @ about 3:30pm ish. The French crew (Towlie Elkalith and Yalmaric) were already there. One of them had forgotten a important part of the second tent so they had to share/sleep in car think it was maric lol

The pickup:-
We setup our tent which took around 10-20mins and soon after Foxy turned up. @ about 6 ish we left to go get the others from the airport leaving Ickle and 2 of the French dudes at the site. We got there about 6:45 and I spotted the Swedish crew Noobie Bennea and Piggy. As we started talking, waiting for the last two to turn up, one of the guys that were sitting right next to the Swedes stood up. It was BinBag! They had been sitting next to each other for ages LOL, all we had to do now was wait for Winter. And we waited and waited and waited. So I rang Ickle and asked for Winters number she said she did not have it, so I took a look around and found him hiding the other side of the information desk :P

Ickle's Bit Now - While they were at the airport, I took the time to read the newspaper and have a couple mins of sleep...shhh don't tell anyone! SK rang to say about Med and Tote (see below for the story!) Not long after Max rang me for Winter's number...he rang me!! Anyway, not long after that they came back from the airport baring gifts!

The Friday Night:-
Before going back to the campsite we stopped @ a Tesco (super market) to pickup some beers and OMG we must have bought enough to sink a battleship we got back to the campsite about 8:00 Medusa and Tote were suppose to be staying at Serial Killers for that night but they were way too pissed already so SK was going to pick the up from the airport and bring them straight to the camp site, he was suppose to get there for about 9ish and we waited and waited and waited. Turns out the Mick only went and got himself lost so I quite rightly took the piss out of him and went to his rescue :P. They finally got there about 9:30 ish not long after Med and Tote were setup SK went home for the night I gave him two bottles of Cognac/Champagne and asked him to put them in the freezer and bring them back in the morning. The French doods said they have to be cold or do not taste right. We ended up getting pissed till about 1am. The Foxy made snakebite and black which took the roof off your mouth and the French doods were passing round the cognac. Me and Ickle did not sleep well that night mainly because it was soooo damn cold but Med and Tote were doing a Beavis and Butthead impression all night giggling like a pair of school girls (there's a vid of it I hope to host here if I can get it :D) 

The Main Paintballing Day:-
We all got up about 8ish and SK met us @ the campsite. We left for McDonalds and arrived about 8:45ish, Paul and Numbnuts were already there. I gave everyone their deposit pass and we had some breakfast. The paintball centre was right next door more or less :D. We got to the paintball centre went through all the safety procedures and I was given a ticket for the M16 upgrade gun (SK said don't use it it's too heavy). I decided to give it a go anyway, we got to our first game about 11am. I arrived for that game about 10mins late because I had to wait to be given my gun :(. By the time I got there most of my team had been taken off. The gun was very good, did not seem too heavy and had a much better range than the others. We had another 2 games after that then stopped for lunch. During lunch I spoke to the Marshall in-charge and asked him to allow the clans to shoot @ the clan leaders in a firing squad. Once I told him I was one of the clan leaders he looked at me as if to say "are you furking nuts" but agreed because he wanted to see us get furked up. I told the others the arrangements and SK was none to happy (hehheheh unlucky mofo I said). After the first game after lunch it was time for the firing squad. The four leader were Me, Yalmaric, Serial Killer and BinBag (only BW member unlucky lol). Now there was a fatal flaw in my plan that I did not see. I knew everyone wanted to shoot me and I thought get the others in and they would take some hits as well. The problem was I was wearing a blue band the others a orange band so every1 knew who I was. They were about 30yards away and it stared pretty straight the firing. Then all of a sudden, the whole barrage came my way and it stung like hell lol. I took it for as long as I could then started trying to avoid the furkers lol. Longest 8 seconds ever! After this we played another 2 games then every1 returned to the main area. We had a short break then everyone from the centre went for an all out match something like 200 people. I stayed close to the back as I did not have much ammo left and decided I was going to shoot at anyone in-front of me. It just turns out that there were a few marshals so they got a hammering from me lol and that was the end of the paintballing a very good day all in :D

The Last Night:-
After leaving the paintball centre we went to the pub across the road as I'm told that this is a tradition. We had a quick pint in there and then SK dropped the bombshell and said he forgot the 2 bottles I had given him the night before. I said unlucky Mick ya gunna have to go and get them (I had no idea he was like 40mins drive away opsss lol) we got back to the campsite about 6:30. Numb Nuts left soon after as it started to rain. I said we need some sorta canopy to make a shelter as it was pissing down and blowing a gale as we needed somewhere sheltered to cook! Maric gave me the part of his tent he did bring LOL! So with a little inventiveness we made a make shift shelter out of the boot of Foxy's people carrier and his tent. It worked out quite good, we waited for SK to return before starting the Barbecue as he had supplied most of it. SK turned up about an hour later and he, Medusa and Tote put up his tent while I organised the Barbecue. In the end it was Ickle, Foxy and Piggy cooking while I ran round getting things organised such as the condiments and places to put the food :P. Tbh I cheated a little by getting Noobie Logik Bennea and Winter to help with things like buttering the rolls and so on :P. We cooked for a few hours until everyone stopped eating and it turned out we had made way too much lol. Turns out the barbecue's had scorched the grass a little so I'm waiting for complaints from the owner lol. So after this we just stood around chatting and getting pissed Towlie gave everyone some of that Cognac/Champagne which very nice and strong after a good drinking session and feeling very sore I went to bed around 12

The Journey home:-
Well the next day everyone was up by about 9ish except BinBag. So having some silly string on me SK and I decided to give him a wakeup call and blasted him with the stuff lol. It then started to rain so the planned cooked breakfast was cancelled for a cooked breakfast at the Airport. The French doods were the first to go as they has to drive down to Dover. Soon after SK took Med and Tote to the Airport and me and foxy not long after that took the others to the Airport leaving BinBag behind as he was going to get pickup from the camp site. We got to the Airport about 10:15. We had a cooked breakfast there which was ok. We said our goodbyes to the guys and left. About 1 hour later, ickle got a call from Winter. They had only gone cancelled all the trains leaving Birmingham so he ended up having to get a lift from a friend we got home about 6pm and started finding bruises we didn't know we had lol.

All in all a very very good weekend and I cant wait for the next :D