Tuesday 6 July 2010

Guide camp

I got back yesterday from Guide camp, and have spent most of today asleep! It was a good camp, although I was rather apprehensive before going - we had 33 girls, were going quite a distance, and had alot who had never camped before! Ususally we camp at the local site, which at least has the advantage of being able to get parents to come and collect their kids if there are major problems - this time it wasn't an option.
Two of us went early as the advance party to put up the tents, as the Guides were not arriving til after dark. It was rather windy, and there were some fun moments when the tents blew about as we were trying to peg them down.
Camp actually went really well, despite torrential rain one day and even stronger winds which threatened to blow three of the tents away. Fortunately the wind dropped somewhat before bedtime, and the extra pegs seemed to do the trick.
The real fun came when we took the tents down. On removing one of the pegs, water started bubbling up from the ground! We're still not sure if it was a natural spring, or a water pipe (if the latter, it was very near the surface and very weak - our tent pegs were NOT strong ones).
Although it was tiring and hard work, I had a good time. It was especially nice to be complimented on how well behaved our Guides were. Now, does anyone have any ideas how to get that kind of behaviour in our regular meetings???

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