Something about camping just screams early morning start... But Bear and Penguin got up earlier then they meant to... Especially Bear...about three hours too early at half five. So we decided the best thing to do was go for a small walk, not to far or we'd get lost, for Bear to do Penguin's hair and then decide there is too long a gap for everyone else to wake up, so we went back to our tents and try and sleep. We both failed..
But when everyone did wake up after the promise of bacon, the bacon had to to be made! And after breakfast before going to get ready to climb big scary rocks the best thing to do is get yourself pumped up!
While still around the camp fire, Bon Jovi's 'Livin' on a Prayer' came up for a nice camp sing-a-long. Beats 'Kum ba yah' in my books...
Then we were let loose in the back of the coach with Bryn listening to Queens 'I want to brak free', Survivor's 'Eye of the Tiger' - To which Bear and Penguin HAD to do Dean from Supernatural's dance to!
If you don't know what we mean, watch this thank us later!
And Wild Cherry's 'Play that Funky Music.' You can only imagine the madness that went on as these pictures does NOT do it justice! But it was SO much fun and so funny that we shall forever love Bryn for joining in!
So we got to Harrison's Rocks and were told that before the big climb there were going to be little challenges. The first one was to run up this small rock. We had to get everyone from the team up at lest once. We did it! Some people found it so easy they had to make make it extra hard by saying 'You can't have a run up' or 'You can't use your hands'. I think at one point it got to both and still someone managed it - to most the guys surprise it was a girl, it was Amy! But as you can see, penguins are not meant for climbing... And I needed help.
Next, we had to run/ scramble and climb up a set of rocks as fast as we could. It's in the below collage - the rocks on the top-left. I can't remember my time but Bear got 17 seconds (Better the most the boys..Nerr).. So let's skip to the next one... There is a picture of Bear, Bryn and Amy doing 'Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' next to it.
We had to climb up threw some small gaps in the rocks... Not really sure how to explain it. But anyway when we got to the top we did find a really cool hiding place that looked like a den! A Bear's den!
Little at the time did we know that it was to do with the next challenge.. Firstly we had to go to the other side that was just a little gap, with LOTS of spiky holly leaves and crawl to the other den side. I have to say the den side is much comfy-er. We then had to hold our hands on the weird face, run round to the other side as quickly as we could and crawl threw and touch the face again. Not everyone did the race... but it was hilarious watching the ones that did - especially with the amount of muck on their faces!
This is coming down from the part where we climbed up threw the small spaces in the rocks. It would of just been easier to go up this way.. But I guess that was the point...
We then went to the rocks we were meant to be climbing but another group were already there. So we had to carry on and find others. We stopped to have lunch. But it wasn't really a stop. Bryn showed everyone how to climb across this wall. Bear got all the way! Penguin got most of the way, but her stupid sprained wrist wanted to give up before she did. (Damn weak wrists!)
Then it was time for the big climb! Penguin went before Bear and made it to the top! (With a HUGE assist going to Bryn!) There aren't any pictures as the camera was forgotten and Bear was beelining Penguin. But as Bear already started climbing before Penguin came down, Penguin got some pictures of Bear climbing! (I would like to point out that the height that Bear is at here is the height that Bear threw her phone down. I think she was about 20-30ft in the air!) Bear made it all the way to the top too!
This is us relaxing next to where we climbed while the others finished. Do we look like we'd just had panic attacks 40ft in the air? 'Cause we had! And we have the bruises to prove it!
On the way back to camp we stopped in a field. Bear and some of the other strange and wonderful people decided to run threw a bush....
But the brilliant idea came afterwards... DIZZY! DIZZY! DINOSAURS! And yes it was as much fun as it sounds. 17+ year olds running in circles as fast as they can 10 times to get dizzy and run towards a tree. So much fun!
As if this day needed any more awesome in it, it wasn't done yet! We had a BBQ for dinner cooked by Bear, Penguin and Elli.
Archery then followed. We were quite late for it as dinner had taken so long to cook. So we were lucky we got to do it at all! We had 2 rounds each in the end. We had to get into four groups of four and number ourselves one-four. We had four arrows each, each time.
In the end Penguin got: - Two white
- Two black
- Two blue
- One red
- One yellow
In the end Bear got:- Two white
- One black
- One blue
- Three red
- One yellow
And I think we were both very happy with ourselves. I really enjoyed it!
Then it was back to camp. We sat around as a big happy group missing only Bear and Bryn (They went to wash up.) Again we were singing. This time it was Bob Marley's 'Three little birds' and I want to be like you from 'The Jungle Book' among others which I don't know the name of. Calvin, who was one of the men in charge of the course was asked to do a song from the Lion King, to which he answered that he HATES the Lion king (Not going to lie, I hated him at this point!) The quote I think we all took with ourselves was 'Get your circle of life around my girth!'
That wasn't even the end of the night! We still had more sing-a-longs, which Bear back, so of course we sang 'The Bare Necessities', ate Raspberry cheesecake, made home(camp)-made wagon wheels (So clever, so easy! 2 chocolate digestives, melt a marshmallow and put it in between the biscuits!) Penguin hates tea, but I drank it!
Finally, we went for a walk in the dark. We stopped near a lake and had to sit on our own and think about what we wanted in the nest year. Whither it was something we wanted to do, something we wanted to get or something we wanted to know. It was nice to have some quiet time actually. Then it was back to camp for bed! I was so tired after such a long day!
- Mountain Bear & Rock Hopper Penguin x x x
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