You learn all sorts of amazing facts about people on a trip like this: Miss Conchar has the gentlest snore you've ever heard, Kirsty says that even the dog snores louder than her mum. Maddy was talking in her sleep last night saying: 'No scissors, no scissors, nooo!' Nightmares about having an extreme haircut perhaps? A throwaway comment to Freya about Tomato Ketchup led to an intense, learned lecture on the relative merits of Brown Sauce and Daddy's Sauce and a minute breakdown of the contents of each!!!
Jessie and I have adopted one of the instructor's greetings, nicked from Nemo: 'Fin, noggin, dude.' We keep refining our moves and honing the attitude.
Although it poured with rain last night, thankfully after activities, and was a little fresh first thing this morning, by the time we started on our first activity, low ropes, we were bathed in warm sunshine. Our instructor, Daryl is one of our favourite and we had a brilliant session, with everyone trusting each other, and being wonderfully supportive. This was followed by archery and then go karting, Kelsey definitely has issues with hand eye coordination: you really don't want to ask her any questions when she's got a bow and arrow in her hand becausev she swings round and aims at you. And as for being behind the wheel of a go cart she was erratic to say the least: any driving instructor taking her in future years needs to check the insurance cover fine print and demand double pay! Harriet's not much better: the instructor saw his life flash before his eyes as she completed her timed lap, mistook the accelerator for the brake and only his reflexes saved him! Macy fell into a tyre on the circuit before even getting into the cart, Olly performed a perfect 360 degrees and kept on going; Macy travelled 10m before crashing and upending four tyres, meanwhile Jarod was only 1 second off the instructor's course record and Milly took a good stab at a controlled skid. Maddy was far more skilful in the cart and was only a second or so behind Jarod.
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