Last Tuesday all of the Silver teams headed to Camp Mendocino. It is a Boys and Girls club in northern California in a redwood forest. Very cool! Guys and girls we split into different cabins which had cots and nothing but cloth for the windows and doors which made for chilly housing. Although my sleeping bag did the job of keeping me warm.
After arriving Tuesday we had free time to roam around. I headed over to the playground and had fun on the tire swing. My team also had to help with dinner that night so we prepared the tables and served the food. Which was DELICIOUS along with the rest of the meals they served us there! That night all of the silver teams played "Newly Teams"...or something like that. It was similar to the newly weds but your team was split into two and each side had to choose who on their team was "most likely to...." Some examples were bake cookies, be on jeopardy, be excited for physical trainging in the morning, etc... Silver 1 did an awesome job and was tied for first during some of it. We ended up in 4th.
The next day each team was sent to do some sort of project for the camp. Some worked on a garden or maintained hiking trails while my team bleached buildings. Sounds like fun huh? It wasn't too bad though my team got to interact while working. We simply "painted" on bleach to get rid of dirt and mold on the outsides of buildings. And they looked quite nice when we were done with them.
That night we all had to perform skits. My team did a funny rendition of our CPR training. It went well considering the amount of preperation. Then we all gathered around a campfire and cooked delicious s'mores.
The next day was the real fun day. It began with some team building games. We had to cross a "lava river" with a few "stones" to walk across. There were lots of tough rules and we never fully succeded but learned a lot. Then we got to climb a rock wall! Tons of fun. After that was the high ropes course. I will have to steal a picture from another teammate that she took while on the ground. Mostly we had to walk across tight wires or manuver through crazy ropes. Then I got to RIDE A ZIPLINE! I'm super stoked cuz it's another item I get to cross of my list.
After arriving Tuesday we had free time to roam around. I headed over to the playground and had fun on the tire swing. My team also had to help with dinner that night so we prepared the tables and served the food. Which was DELICIOUS along with the rest of the meals they served us there! That night all of the silver teams played "Newly Teams"...or something like that. It was similar to the newly weds but your team was split into two and each side had to choose who on their team was "most likely to...." Some examples were bake cookies, be on jeopardy, be excited for physical trainging in the morning, etc... Silver 1 did an awesome job and was tied for first during some of it. We ended up in 4th.
The next day each team was sent to do some sort of project for the camp. Some worked on a garden or maintained hiking trails while my team bleached buildings. Sounds like fun huh? It wasn't too bad though my team got to interact while working. We simply "painted" on bleach to get rid of dirt and mold on the outsides of buildings. And they looked quite nice when we were done with them.
That night we all had to perform skits. My team did a funny rendition of our CPR training. It went well considering the amount of preperation. Then we all gathered around a campfire and cooked delicious s'mores.
The next day was the real fun day. It began with some team building games. We had to cross a "lava river" with a few "stones" to walk across. There were lots of tough rules and we never fully succeded but learned a lot. Then we got to climb a rock wall! Tons of fun. After that was the high ropes course. I will have to steal a picture from another teammate that she took while on the ground. Mostly we had to walk across tight wires or manuver through crazy ropes. Then I got to RIDE A ZIPLINE! I'm super stoked cuz it's another item I get to cross of my list.
Ummm after that it wasn't anything too excited. ALTHOUGH! my team also won the ameri-lympics. We won the boot toss and wheelbarrow race, which was enough to put us in first :) YAY for free frostys.
Well that raps up Tuesday-Friday. The weekend will be posted soon!
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| This was an awesome swinging bridge we crossed |
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| Wild turkey! |
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| Hanging out in a tree |
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| Sitting next to a random carving! |
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| They also had 2 awesome pigs! |
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