SO this weekend was great. For softball we went to the Adirondack Center. If you are ever looking for a place to bring a group, this is definitely it!! It is located in the Foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, and has about 200 acres of land. I know from people who took the Outdoors Adventures class third term, when they took their trip there, they did a lot of outdoor activities like high ropes course, but due to snow and rain we remained inside.
WIth sleeping bags, pillows, and food (lots of food) we left at 6:45 am. During the drive we passed a lot of cows and a got taste of Amish life style. Once we were there we all wanted to eat, but we broke out with a few team bonding activities. Craig, runs the center and leads in adventure education, taught us some great necessities of life and being on a team. Some of our activities include jumping back to back, rock climbing, impulse game, sculpting with playdough (having group guess), and dodge ball!!! Of course for that game we went all out. One activity was having to lower a skinny pole to the ground, while only balancing it on a part of your finger. The tough part was there are to lines of people facing each other and everyone had to be touching the pole the whole time. Right off the bat, the pole went straight up into the air. After much confusion to as why the bar went up when we all knew it had to go down, it sunk in that we needed to work together and we did! We got the bar to the ground; concept here was to not only be in "your space", be observant of others around you. To get out of "your space" is tough because today we are always on cell phones, ipods, computers, tv, etc., so this weekend we did not use any of those. At night we cooked pasta (with great sauce thanks Britt's Mom), played board games...intense board games, and had a messy cupcake war. Oh yes we also started plotting to scare each other which definitely worked for me along with a few dance parties in the kitchen. So attached are a few photos!
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