Saturday, April 9, 2011

County Venture Skills Overnight

Hey everyone. We had the County Venture Skills Overnight last night/today, in Blarney Scout Hall/ Iniscara. Seven different Venture troops were represented, including The Lough, Ballincollig, Ballinora, Blarney, Bishopstown, St. Finbarre's and our humble selves.  
 Firstly, there were First Aid bases, (encompassing 'Emergencies' on the One Program.) These were run by trained EMT's, which were very engaging. Maybe even Heather learned something new! This was followed by ice-breakers, and a quiz, with .....interesting questions. 20 wrong questions later, a new game was invented, frisbeeball. Think clay pigeon shooting with half inflated soccer balls. This brought us right up to around 2.30 a.m. so people decided it might possibly be good to think about considering going to bed. 

Up nice and early in the morning, for some fruit, iffy blueberry muffins, yops, and half-hearted frisbee before heading out to Iniscara for various other Skills bases. Different groups went out on the lake, sailing, or tried their hand at kite-flying with Declan. 


                                                          


We successfully built a friction bridge, there was some lava that needed crossing. As a reward for not killing anyone with the sledgehammer, we all got burgers, kindly barbequed by Lucy Kay, which were subsequently eaten in Stephen's Trance Gallery. Thanks to Eoghan from the Lough and Declan from Ballincollig for organising the weekend! 

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