A Photo Canvas

It's the time of the year again, where I get to see the men in green once more at the Army Open House 2009.

As usual, the Boy once again decided to accompany me despite not being a big fan of the army. But then, he stays pretty near the camp, so why not? =P

Dressed for the theme (at least somewhat for me), we head on out to view the stationary mobiles like the chinook, the tanks, the lightstrike vehicle etc. Silly me decided to wear denim skirt for the day, which impeded me ability to climb in and out of the vehicles for photo opportunities =(

As such, we didn't stay around the mock-ups for long, which saw us heading to Battle World, where we decided to try out a 'game' where we had to engage terrorists who had captured 4 civilians. While I was pretty excited to try out the weapons again, the downside of it all was that it involved a really long waiting time, of which your turn was not in order to whether or not you earlier than others. (Bumper to the Boy for that). Anyway, I also found out to my dismay that the M16 was really heavy!! (And I thought I was strong... Humpt!)

Oh ya, one more thing. While I was told to fire at the timer to disarm the bomb for the mission, guess what?

I aimed for the bomb! I'm such a sillified dodo...

Anyway, silly-ness aside, maybe it was because I've been to the Army Open House often enough, or I've seen army related stuff quite often that we did not watch any of the performances. And although I was really really keen to try out the Combat Ride Safari or the Live Firing Safari, the extremely long queue and the estimated time of 1.5 hours of waiting turned me off big time, that we decided to cut our visit short, and just head home.

Oh well, at least I got to shoot the M16 =)
How about the SAR-21 next time??