What a day! Our breakfast was a choice of sausages or veggie sausages and hash browns (which led to an interesting debate on the merit of real hash browns vs McDonalds hash browns) and set us up for our busy day. After persuading Mrs dos Santos to take blue group for the afternoon (not that much persuasion was needed) Mr George had the great pleasure of floating between all the groups today to see everyone in action.

Today, blue and green groups had zip wire, archery, climbing and the challenge course. Yellow group had climbing and the challenge course, as well as the vertical challenge and problem solving.

The blue group highlights, apart from making up a very tuneful song about monkeys, was seeing everyone push themselves really hard on the zip wire – whether going the whole hog or climbing the tower, fears were conquered and it was done in style!

The green group highlights included an exciting run through the challenge course (which involved a very challenging game that involved people wearing cones on their ears…) and a great team effort on the climbing wall. It was superb to hear these guys supporting each other every step of the way – what a team!

The yellow team highlights had to include scaling the climbing wall in record time – some of these children are faster over wall than land! The vertical challenge showed some perseverance but lots of success on a very challenging vertical climb – well done yellow team!

Dinner was a choice between curry, vegetarian cannelloni or noodles – needless to say, Mr George was spoilt for choice again! Our evening activity was the camp fire, which gave us even more opportunity to stretch our vocal chords. We’re very tired now, so off to sleep!