CID Tower Tour and Paintball
On Saturday I got a tour of our Cedar Rapids air traffic control tower and it was pretty neat. It was a solid IFR day with ceilings at 600 so the only traffic in the area were the regional jets coming and and out. The controllers were not busy and were happy to show us around, demonstrate how the equipment works (or does not…), and we just had a good time overall. Interestingly, they are still using the old (very old) ARTS stations in TRACON. Brrrr…
Then on Sunday we got together with all bunch of people to play some paintball. We had twenty people show up so mostly we just played 10 vs 10 and it worked out pretty good with almost everyone using the rental guns keeping the game fair. We played the maze and the city courses, three times each, 
before joining other teams for capture the flag game at the fort. We won both of the games and then we played on the battlefield with a medic. That did not work out that well since our medic decided he did not want protection and as a result got taken out fairly quickly.