{"id":14815,"date":"2013-10-21T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14815"},"modified":"2013-10-21T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:00:10","slug":"a-wet-and-wild-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/a-wet-and-wild-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wet and Wild Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve just got back from an activity weekend away with the Scouts. This time, rather than organise the activities ourselves Anna and I decided it would be easier to let Llandysul\u00a0Paddlers do this. So we had booked into their bunk house and arranged various activities through them, and they even collected us from Borth in their mini-bus.<\/p>\n

So, we left Borth on Friday afternoon with Anna and 13 Scouts in the mini-bus, followed by me in the car along with\u00a0Morgan as an ‘Honorary Scout’ and\u00a0a car full of food to keep them all topped up with energy for the weekend. We arrived in Llandysul at around 7pm, unpacked the car and minibus and sorted out who would be in each of the dormitories. The 4 girls were in the smaller room and the boys were in the large dormitory. Anna and I, and Kath and Nia who were our ‘parent helpers’ for the weekend also had bunk rooms of our own.<\/p>\n

The bunkhouse\u00a0itself had a large wet-room which led to a drying room and changing rooms. There was then a very large common room and a good kitchen with plenty of cooking space,\u00a0fridge\u00a0space and pots and pans – everything we needed to cater for and house a group of Scouts for the weekend. Upstairs were various dormitories with triple-bunk-beds, toilets and a viewing room overlooking the river.<\/p>\n

Once settled in, Nick, James and Harriet from the centre came around,\u00a0introduced\u00a0themselves to us and then we did some team-building exercises in the wet room.<\/p>\n

\"Team<\/a>

Team Building<\/p><\/div>\n

We then headed across the road for a night walk along the river looking for some little coloured balls that had been hidden out there and then had a game of hide and seek in the dark. Kath and Anna stayed in the bunkhouse whilst we were out so that we could return to the smell of freshly baked pizzas and garlic bread.\u00a0Needless to say we all tucked in, and accompanied it with carrot sticks and coleslaw, all followed by fruit, cake and drinks.<\/p>\n

Then came the usual first night of sleeping – or ‘not sleeping’ as it is probably more accurately\u00a0referred\u00a0to!<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/h2>\n

Not to worry, I got my own back on them by waking them all up at 7:30am – which is apparently early – not in my books it isn’t!!\u00a0\u00a0The Scouts on breakfast duties on the rota then helped out with breakfast preparations. On the menu this morning were cereals, egg and beans on toast, toast with jam and various drinks. We then made our packed lunches ready for a day out at the coast.<\/p>\n

Once we were packed up and ready to go, we headed across to the centre to collect wetsuits, wetsuit boots,\u00a0buoyancy\u00a0aids and helmets and then piled into the minibus and car and headed off to the coast at Moylegrove, a journey of about 50 minutes. Then came the fun of getting everyone into their wetsuits. We got there in the end without too many back-to-front or inside-out incidents. It was a grey cloudy day with a torrential downpour just as we started getting changed, and the sea temperature is dropping so most people had doubled up on summer suits in order to stay warm and toastie.<\/p>\n

We then headed down to the beach, across the river and the pebbles and into the sea where we were welcomed by a friendly seal who seemed to follow us around all day wondering what these red clad beings were up to!<\/p>\n

\"Coasteering\"<\/a>

Coasteering<\/p><\/div>\n

We were actually ‘coasteering’, a term coined to describe the activity that kids (and big kids) have always done on rocky coastlines, of clambering over rocks, jumping into the sea and getting washed around by the waves. The sun even came out for a while and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves as we worked our way around the rocks.<\/p>\n\n\t\t