We ended up going to a place in Wicklow in Ireland that a friends family owns, a funny little piece of land with a man-made lake and a camping spot in the woods they retained when they sold a big nearby country estate years ago.
We ordered a bunch of inflatable dinghies, scuba masks, slingshots, paintballs and pool inflatables.
We also built an 8' x 8 ' x 2' hot tub in the woods and I concocted a heating system using an old barrel, a heat exchanger from a decommissioned air source heat pump and a submersible well pump running from a generator. We got it up to 45°c at one point and had to add some more cold water so I'd call it a big success, we had the space enough for 14 lads to hop in too!
We came up with an amazing drinking game on the lake which was sort of a hybrid of Mario Kart and Wacky Races.
Three teams of two in the dinghies with a can of beer to be downed to start, a race from the jetty to the island and back with targets on the way for immunity from people on the shore shooting you with paintballs and obviously lots of people shooting each other with paintballs regardless. Losing teams had to "walk the plank" (a greasy slippery plank) while being shot with paintballs and defended by their teammates and if they put a foot down or fell off before reaching the end they had to start again until they made it to the end.
Hilarity ensued.
DIY stag entertainment is the best if you can find a spot to set up something fun!
The aforementioned stag took place last weekend;
We ended up going to a place in Wicklow in Ireland that a friends family owns, a funny little piece of land with a man-made lake and a camping spot in the woods they retained when they sold a big nearby country estate years ago.
We ordered a bunch of inflatable dinghies, scuba masks, slingshots, paintballs and pool inflatables.
We also built an 8' x 8 ' x 2' hot tub in the woods and I concocted a heating system using an old barrel, a heat exchanger from a decommissioned air source heat pump and a submersible well pump running from a generator. We got it up to 45°c at one point and had to add some more cold water so I'd call it a big success, we had the space enough for 14 lads to hop in too!
We came up with an amazing drinking game on the lake which was sort of a hybrid of Mario Kart and Wacky Races.
Three teams of two in the dinghies with a can of beer to be downed to start, a race from the jetty to the island and back with targets on the way for immunity from people on the shore shooting you with paintballs and obviously lots of people shooting each other with paintballs regardless. Losing teams had to "walk the plank" (a greasy slippery plank) while being shot with paintballs and defended by their teammates and if they put a foot down or fell off before reaching the end they had to start again until they made it to the end.
Hilarity ensued.
DIY stag entertainment is the best if you can find a spot to set up something fun!
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