"We never realised how weird we really are until we were forced to be with other people"
We don't like early mornings... Ever. We were meant to get up at 6.30am, but we decided we could leave half an hour later so we could sleep half an hour longer. It still wasn't enough.
One thing that is sure to make us walk far at a stupid time in the morning is snapple. Snapple makes us happy.
While we was walking to town to catch the train after getting our Snapples we found a strange man. I mean who goes around while walking your dog and steals flowers out gardens? He had a carrier bag and was leaning over taking them and piling them in. How strange. I hope he has hay fever for his comeuppance.
We got the slower train to Chatham and it really felt like it took forever!!! But we happily sat and relaxed after our hour walk to town. We sipped our Snapples and read the Metro. The Metro rarely has anything interesting in it (aside from the Wimbledon watching meerkats) but we brought one home to use for the parrots home. Now thats useful.
Penguin's niece is starting to love penguins. It happens to all small children who know penguin. And most adults... It just happens. Last week the two of us saw a super cute, ridiculously cuddly teddy penguin that was a very good size and only £6 as it was half price. Penguin decided Sophie should have it. Penguin was meant to send her card with money in for her birthday with money in but she left it too late. So what better present than a penguin? The only problem is penguin now loves it. A lot. And I don't know if I want to give it up and get her something else. I should as she is only 4. She needs it more. But it's a fluffy penguin and I want it!
When we got to the Prince's Trust we had to wait around until everyone got there, we played some silly games to pass the time. We did an observation game and Bear got it, Bear is apparently untrickable. Ma ha ha! Everyone turned up and we went from the three of us to sixteen.
To break the ice we played some 'get to know you' games. We started with a ball we had to throw around and shout each others names out. It was chaos! It got to 4 balls at once.. And then we played a game where someone dropped a piece of paper, if you caught it all you had to do was call someone elses name and drop the paper. If you didn't catch it, you have to tell the group something about yourself and then do the same. Bear caught it, called out Penguin who didn't catch it and so penguin told the group about how many pets she and Bear and the Jackaman's have. They thought we were crazy! Then Calvin (I think that's his name) thought he'd see who could jump over a chair with only a standing jump. He was the only one who tried it. But he managed it!
We both went to the store room to help Greg get all the supplies we need like the helmets (Penguin carried all 16 of them in one go!), harnesses and practise ropes for the knots. We watched a very in depth demonstration on how to put on a helmet. We were secure and rocking the helmet head! Then we had the harness demonstration which meant staring at the instructor Greg's crutch for a good 15 minutes as we went through all the safety parts.
We learnt how to do a figure of eight knot and a thumb knot. We had to then attach our figure of eight knots onto our harnesses. We were taught by having to use the end of our ropes as a racing car and follow the previous ropes directions - so we felt obliged to making racing car sounds as we did it.
We nearly didn't get to do the rock climbing as we started to feel uncomfortable. Luckily Dean was great at making us see that we should give it a go and at least walk back in and see how we feel. It was much better after they realised we really wasn't happy and sorted through the problems we had.
The rock climbing wall was about 25 feet tall and got harder as you went up. There was a few others that have rock climbed a fair bits and was up, down and all over the wall on the super hard leaning parts. We stuck to the beginners wall. Straight up and no leaning forward! We both got just over 20 feet as we both had trouble on one part where a yellow block was stupidly small and hard to grip onto but we were already really proud of actually doing it let alone nearly reaching the top! When we get as far as we want we get to abseil back down which is a really fun part. When Penguin came down we all did her own Mission Impossible theme for her to come down to - she laughed a lot!
Bear did another abseil after as we had literally ten minutes left. I got all the way up and onto the edge but got stuck - I'm petrified of heights! But after good coaching from Jaz at the top worked with her to do it step by step. I couldn't start the abseil properly but i ended up sitting at the edge flopping down like "a maggot on the string" then getting my bearings and doing the abseil properly! I was really proud that i even attempted it after the height scare of the first climb. It took a lot of time and craziness to actually get back down again but i did it and i had my penguin cheering me on. We did it! Together we got a few climbs done and felt good that we did go back and face our fears to get a few life goals checked off!
Penguin isn't scared of heights, but when she couldn't move because of the stupid yellow block, she did get scared.. While she was going up she was quite nervous anyway. Bear to keep her calm, shouted out encouragement. She called penguin, penguin and not her 'real life' name. When the others heard this they got quite confused.. So bear told them it was her nickname and they all asked questions about penguins, like which is penguin's favourite type - emperor - by the way. And they all agreed it was the best penguin and how awesome penguins where. While penguin was coming down, they call said 'imagine you're a penguin jumping over the rocks to the mission impossible theme!' That made penguin very happy. And very calm.
Coming out of the gym there was the army guys (and 2 girls) all in lines and on guard doing their training drills. It was very weird as they were quite literally right outside the door and all staring at the door. We were in full top gear conversation (more debating) the comic comparing to their films and how good/ crap The Amazing Spider Man is. It was heated discussions but i think they were impressed with our shared knowledge of everything nerdy ^_^. After their drills they suddenly turned towards us and started marching and then double marching in our direction - all 50/60 of them! Full army style and shouting etc.
As we didn't eat all day.. No packed lunch.. We decided we earn a happy meal for dinner. We wanted another minion. We love them. But they had sold out... We were rather worried which toy we were going to get. We are very picky. But it ended up being Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians. We were very happy with this!
"If you don't like it change it, if you can't change it change the way you think about it"
- Bear & Penguin x x x
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