Over the weekend we took a whole bunch of our Yoof from all over camping. Being the best of yoof leaders we took our yoof to a lake(dam). I am not sure why we insist on calling dams lakes. I think it is political correctness gone crazy that the word dam is somehow offensive. The dams in our locale are doing things pretty rough and despite rain for two days before we got there the dam was still at a very unbouyant 3%. To be honest the reason we went out there was the fact that camping was free and this even included ok toilet and showering facilities and powered sites. So cheap is good. We managed to take our yoof away for only $25 each for the weekend. Where else with waterside views and ensuite facilites could you go for $25!! No where let me just tell you.
Part of the adventure of looking after yoof is their unpredictable nature we were expecting 40ish. We actually had 60 turn up. So Mrs Lovely One who is rapidly becoming she of the swollen ankles had to venture out to the local shopping place and grab some cold meat for lunch and some snags for lunch the next day. We cleaned them out of cold meat pretty much that they had to slice us some more. After checking out the prices we could not beat the deli BBQ snags which were $2.95 a kilo. The other snags were double the price. I can not be beaten by bargains gentle reader. I unfortunately walked up and was served by the same girl at the deli. I warned her and asked if I should get this order from her coworkers as I had already bugged her for the sliced meat. I then had to ask her for 120 snags. I then instructed I would be back shortly and collect my deli bounty which I did. Because gentle reader I am way too important to wait for snags.
We spent the afternoon at the local pool who granted us a hefty discount. Which was surprising to us after we went on a recon trip in Jan and they told us they would not give a group discount. The proprietor then called for back up. Our 60 out gunned the locals who numbered between 6-10. Some made a quick escape. I don’t think the proprietor was accustomed to so many and set up up some witches hats and issued a whistle to one of our leaders. He thought the game we were playing which was basically throwing around a small soccer ball and then mugging whoever had the ball needed some formalisation and needed teams and goals and a whistle. The game soon petered out with the formalisation.
We wanted to give the kids dessert for dinner but because of the lack of refrigeration we couldn’t really so we snuck down to the local supermarket and grabbed 10litres of ice cream and some cones and happiness was every where. The locals that shared the car park with us looked at us like we were strange.
After a sumptious BBQ dinner we set up the data projector and shone it on the white back of the truck we brought out with us to carry our tables and supplies. This caused some interest from the others in the camp grounds. We showed some pics from the South Africa trip and I launched our new short term missions projects. We then showd thr original x-men movie. The boys spent a while on connecting the computer to the hefty car stereo of one of our mob. I watched the stars for a while before drifting comfortably off to sleep.
This morning was pretty hot and we ran out of bacon with the eggs! How our fearless leader thought that 2kg was enough for 40 hungry teens let alone 60 is beyond me. I did offer to get some more bacon yesterday. Thankfully the cooks were confused and accidently cooked one of the bags of snags. So we had less for lunch which was ok. We ended up having lunch at around 1030. I know that sounds early but when your teens get up at the crack of 5 1030 is half way through the day.
Between the eatings we packed everything down and also did a prayer labyrinth which seemed to work very well.
After just over a hour of a drive home we unpacked the truck and eskies and I had a nap and a shower cause it was stinking hot here today. I just checked the temp from the local weather station which is about 10k’s away as the crow flies and it was 38.2 at 3pm. So I am very glad we packed up early and drove home in air conditioned comfort.
Till Next Time Can We Air Condition The World??,
Chops