Thursdays with Kids (a slight referral to Tuesdays with Morrie)

Aaaaaah Thursdays.  The craziest day of them all.  Unless it's really really busy here and it's Wednesday AND Thursday....the craziest days of them all.

What is so special about these two days of the week?  Is it date night? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it's.......
Activity Day!

Now before I get to a photostory of this day; let me explain what Activity Day is.
At the camp about 70% of our groups book in on a Monday and depart on a Friday.  Every day they do something different and on Thursdays we have....Activity Day! I'll be typing Activity Day! normally from now on, but when you read it you must say: Activity Day! in your head. Ok?

If we only have one school here activity day is on a Thursday and if we have two schools here we have activity day for one school on Wednesday and then the other school on Thursday.  So what do we do on Activity Day! (ha - I thought I'd just quickly remind you of what Activity Day! should sound like in your head). Well, we do the following adventure activities:
Tubing on the Lower Blyde River
Zip Line
Kettie Paintball
and then after lunch:
Tarzan Swing
River Crossing
Super Slide

It does tend to get a bit crazy on these days and as you can imagine doing a tubing rotation of 20 kids per trip x 3 rounds if we have a school here of 120 kids does get a bit tiring.  It's loads of fun most of the times and after the crazy season you can bounce a coin off my rock hard abs.  But sometimes, in the middle of July, tubing sucks a bit.  No wonder Deon's wet suit pants smells like pee the whole winter long.  It's a relief AND it's warm.

Here are a couple of photographs of Activity Day!  Next time you are stuck in traffic on Wednesday or Thursday think of us, playing outside, and then slap yourself for being so stupid as to live in the city.

River Crossing

It's a jew!no - it's a kid falling from the river crossing

Me lifting my anchor to get a kid in the water

Tarzan Swing done the right way

Still doing it right

Tarzan Swing = this boy is doing it right

Tarzan Swing = this girl is doing it wrong

Super Slide

The Lower Blyde River and tubing

Me and Wille Willie taking a group to the put in

Sometimes the kids panic

Sometimes I amuse myself