Family Day in BC, for some it’s just another paid day off but to our family, we take our annual Lazer tag outing quite serious. We’re quite a competitive family (me being the best loser of the bunch, obviously because I'm usually the loser amongst us, duh). For the last three years, we headed to Planet laser, It's fairly close to home which makes things easy. Their battlefield is large and full great “hiding spaces” and blue lights, think white shiny teeth (which always reminds me of a bar, remember those days!)
If your competitive AF, where runners and a tank top. if you're not sweating you're not working hard enough, lol! Or maybe it’s my I’m middle-aged and I sweat at night and now I ‘m sweating all the dam time now…I don’t know but I’m sticking with the “you're not working hard enough” statement for now! Why not have fun and get a workout in at the same time.
PRO tip, pay attention to the guy in the beginning, he explains how your gear works, I forgot to “listen” and for the first half of the first game, I couldn’t get my gun to work! WHY, cus I fucking squirrelled and didn’t hear him say HOLD these buttons down while your shooting. Yeah, (insert head shake), also you're understanding why I’m the loser of the bunch, normally!)
You never know how the teams are going to work, some games it's a free-for-all every man for themselves, and others you’re organized in teams of colour…so basically you may never be with your family. Which makes for some pretty funny dynamics. There’s a lot of pregame hand shaking deals going down, “I won’t tag you if you don’t tag me” (AMARA ALWAYS DOES ANYWAY, f’n trader!). We usually do three rounds of tag and that seems to be about perfect for our crew.
In the end, there’s a lot of laughs, sweat and bragging rights. We wrap it up with some dinner out. A pretty much perfect “Family Day” in my books. Oh, and by the way, I pulled it together and beat the kids on the last two rounds!! #WINNING feels good!
I would highly recommend laser tag as a family sport, I mean activity!
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