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One of my best friends from college, Chad, moved to California a few years ago. He got engaged this year to his girlfriend, Anna. They are getting married this weekend, specifically tomorrow, in Las Vegas. Because most of Chad's friends still live in Kansas, he's also having his bachelor party this weekend, specifically today, while we are in town. I arrived this morning just in time to join in the festivities. Chad, along with Nick, Jason Keeler, Kroening, Deyrle, Brett, Anna's brother Federico, and one of Chad's California friends started with a trip to the shooting range. This wasn't your average shooting range though. They specialize in machine guns. So I shot a Glock 9mm, an M4, an UZI, and an AK-47. It was awesome and scary at the same time. Firing a real, full-automatic weapon is an absolute rush. Here you can see a perfect photo showing the muzzle flash (photography courtesy of Nick) and me looking way tougher than I really am. But probably it's easy to act tough when you're holding an AK.
Later we went to an indoor paintball field. I don't have any pictures, as my camera was locked in the locker, but here's the picture of the aftermath:
It looks even worse in real life, and that's one of several welts I have. But that's how paintball goes. It was a lot of fun, except when the 14-year-olds came in to play and we challenged them, and they made us look like the old 30-somethings that we are. We then went back to Chad's suite in Mandalay Bay for some pizza and beer, followed by us hitting the casino and presumably contributing funds for Mandalay Bay's next expansion project. All in all a great first day doing fun things with some of my best friends in the world.
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That looks fun! I have never shot a gun before but would like to try. I would also like to learn how to fight- like Jason Bourne type fighting, not the little self defense course at the YMCA...but I'm not sure if anyone gives those sort of lessons. :)
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