C a r l i n g f o r d 2 0 1 2 - Best two days of my life

TY Bonding session - Carlingford, Louth

Where to begin? My trip to Carlingford was simply the BEST.It is an understatement to say it was amazing , it was so much more than that! I woke up at 6 o clock to be ready for the bus at 7. We met at the local garage and all went up to Louth on the bus. Excitement was at an all time high , as tired as we were , we were still able to belt out the tunes on the bus. Time on the bus flew and we were there within no time.

            We all scurried out of the bus to get our suitcases and go to the adventure centre . As we walked through the village I felt as though I had entered a fictional village , like 'Harry Potter'. We went to the 'mint' (volleyball court) and were assigned our rooms and groups , told the rules and about the fun activities  we would be taking part in and met the instructors. Everyone was obsessed with the instructors from the moment we saw them! There was Chris , Andrew , Erin , Leslie , Luke to name only a few. 

            We ran to our rooms to check them out , they were like dorms with bunk beds. First of all we went to the beach to go kayaking , I was so excited , I'd never been before. We got set and put on our wet suits, helmets and got our paddles. We set out to sea haha and met at a tunnel , all the kayaks were dragged onto the shore line and we climbed in the tunnel into the waterfall. At the waterfall we had to put our head under the water for 10 seconds and we would all live one day longer , so the myth says anyway. It was so cold it gave my brain freeze! We then headed back to the shore line and played games. Afterwards we went pier jumping and I was so happy with myself when I jumped off the big pier because I'm afraid of heights! 

high ropes

              When we finished with the beach we got changed and went to the high ropes these were also a challenge for me because I had to overcome my fear of heights once again. The task was for four people to climb a telephone pole like structure and stand on a pizza box size platform, that was the scariest thing ever. When I came back to earth and stood on the ground I was the happiest I had ever been haha! We then went Zorbin , this was so fun we got attached to a huge orb and rolled down the hill.

Chris- Zorbin'

                Later that evening we went on a blindfolded forest walk then we all hung out in our rooms for a while and around the centre in the lounges. We listened to music and socialised with everyone , it brought our TY year so much closer together! Mr K brought us to the Chinese down the road and I bought a 3in1 it tasted delicious , we had already been given chicken and chips for lunch and chicken and rice for dinner but I still got stuck into the 3in1. We had to go to our rooms at 11 and we chatted for a while and then fell fast asleep after our eventful day and we had a busy day ahead of us.

Leslie - Challenge Course

                 We all woke to the sound of Mrs.L's voice saying it's morning girls time to get up. I hoped up out of bed and got dressed , packed my bag and had brushed my teeth by the time the others had just about managed to sit up in their beds! We packed out bags and put them in the storage room , then went to breakfast. When breakfast was finished we broke up into our groups and our group went on the challenge course. We had to do as many tasks as we could in the given time to collect gems and which ever group had the most tasks at the end won , our group tied with another and got 25 gems. The instructors said that was a new record! woo!

               Our last activity to do was to go to the forest and do laser combat. This was the best craic ever we were all dressed up in our suits with head pieces and a gun and had to shoot the other team without getting killed. We were all running around the forest shooting one another hiding under forts in huts. When this ended we knew it was time to go home and we were all down in the dumps. We said our 'thank you' and 'goodbyes' and left the centre , some of the instructors followed us out and waved goodbye as we left. none of us wanted to leave we wanted to stay forever! 

          The road trip home was literally everybody talking about how amazing and wonderful Carlingford was , we all just moaned at how we wanted to go back and never wanted to leave. We arrived home and everyone went back to their houses straight to bed we were so exhausted!

Overall Carlingford was the best two days of my life.

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