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Yesterday evening we went to the girls' camp Parents' Evening - just my daughter and me with the girls, because their father was still at work. It was supposed to start at 5, but things seemed a bit disorganised, plus there were hardly any other families there when we arrived around 5:15, so things didn't really get underway until about 5:30.
The first event was the counsellors leading us in a song; one person sang a line and then everybody repeated that line. After that it was a free-for-all - parents and kids were free to go almost anywhere on the camp grounds except for the pool, where after hours lessons were in progress. My granddaughters made a beeline for the paddle boats, which they went on with their mother while I waited on the bank because the boats only held four people. The girls had also said the wanted to go fishing, but then they declared they wanted to go to the zipline area so that's where we ended up spending the whole of the rest of the time we were there. The girls didn't go ziplining; instead they went on the tyre swings and the climbing walls. The climbing walls took up most of the time we were there.
There was a short climbing wall, maybe 8 feet/2 ½ metres or so high, and there was an extremely high climbing wall which Violet told me is 50 feet/15 metres high and I think that's probably right. The small wall started at ground level but the high wall started at least 8 or 9 feet/2 to 3 metres) above the ground, with a ladder up to the starting point. Eden and Aria went on the small wall, Eden with some help from a counsellor, while Violet waited to go on the high wall. Aria also tried the tall wall, but she didn't even get to the top of the ladder before saying it was too high. (She was about 6 feet/2 metres up at that point - above my head.) When Violet was in the harness ready to go, Eden decided she wanted to try that wall also, but she only got to the point just off the ladder before deciding it was too high for her.
Violet was the star of the evening; she made it all the way to the top of the high wall. There was one point about halfway up where she really struggled and I thought she was going to give up, but she kept going and managed a couple of other tricky places too. When she got to the top she was supposed to turn around, put her weight into the harness, put her feet flat against the wall, and push off so she could be lowered down, but she couldn't bring herself to sit backwards into the harness, Eventually she started out facing away from the wall and then after she felt herself being lowered she was able to turn around and kick off from the wall.
By this time it was almost 7 pm, the official finish time of the event, so we went back to the main area for icypoles and to watch people sitting in the dunking chair (this was a fundraiser - kids were paying to dunk counsellors), before coming home. Everything seems very spread out; it was quite a hike up a hill to the zipline/climbing wall area, and we didn't even see any of the other activity areas. I was thinking it must be exhausting walking between all the activities all day, not to mention doing them, in the hot weather we've been having.
Eden on the small wall:
Aria climbing with help:
Violet:
The first event was the counsellors leading us in a song; one person sang a line and then everybody repeated that line. After that it was a free-for-all - parents and kids were free to go almost anywhere on the camp grounds except for the pool, where after hours lessons were in progress. My granddaughters made a beeline for the paddle boats, which they went on with their mother while I waited on the bank because the boats only held four people. The girls had also said the wanted to go fishing, but then they declared they wanted to go to the zipline area so that's where we ended up spending the whole of the rest of the time we were there. The girls didn't go ziplining; instead they went on the tyre swings and the climbing walls. The climbing walls took up most of the time we were there.
There was a short climbing wall, maybe 8 feet/2 ½ metres or so high, and there was an extremely high climbing wall which Violet told me is 50 feet/15 metres high and I think that's probably right. The small wall started at ground level but the high wall started at least 8 or 9 feet/2 to 3 metres) above the ground, with a ladder up to the starting point. Eden and Aria went on the small wall, Eden with some help from a counsellor, while Violet waited to go on the high wall. Aria also tried the tall wall, but she didn't even get to the top of the ladder before saying it was too high. (She was about 6 feet/2 metres up at that point - above my head.) When Violet was in the harness ready to go, Eden decided she wanted to try that wall also, but she only got to the point just off the ladder before deciding it was too high for her.
Violet was the star of the evening; she made it all the way to the top of the high wall. There was one point about halfway up where she really struggled and I thought she was going to give up, but she kept going and managed a couple of other tricky places too. When she got to the top she was supposed to turn around, put her weight into the harness, put her feet flat against the wall, and push off so she could be lowered down, but she couldn't bring herself to sit backwards into the harness, Eventually she started out facing away from the wall and then after she felt herself being lowered she was able to turn around and kick off from the wall.
By this time it was almost 7 pm, the official finish time of the event, so we went back to the main area for icypoles and to watch people sitting in the dunking chair (this was a fundraiser - kids were paying to dunk counsellors), before coming home. Everything seems very spread out; it was quite a hike up a hill to the zipline/climbing wall area, and we didn't even see any of the other activity areas. I was thinking it must be exhausting walking between all the activities all day, not to mention doing them, in the hot weather we've been having.
Eden on the small wall:
Aria climbing with help:
Violet:
