Hiya!

If you don’t know yet, I was away at a Christian Camp for a week! I just got back a few hours ago, so I just have to update this!

We were sleeping out in tents, which were pretty cold at night. I brought a sleeping bag with a built in inflatable mattress, which is actually more comfy than it sounds.

On one of the days we went to Thorpe Park! If you haven’t heard of it (maybe you’re in America) then it’s a fantastic Theme Park. The best (and scariest) ride there is called Stealth. It’s a mini roller-coaster, but it is definitely not for mini roller-coaster people! It brings you up about 205 feet, and then it drops you down with a G-Force of about 4.5! That’s about the most your body can take. It goes from 0 – 80mph in only about 2.4 seconds!!! It was closed the day I went though, so I couldn’t go on it (I probably wouldn’t have gone on it anyway though!). A great ride which I did go on was called ‘X:/ No Way Out’. It’s a roller-coaster that goes backwards in the dark. Sounds spooky, huh? It doesn’t go that fast, I’d estimate about 40-60mph. Sometimes it just stops and starts going forwards, backwards, forwards, and so on, to make it seem as if it has broken down. At that point, you can hear other carriages flying above and beneath you! Trust me, it’s worth going to.

I also went to a swimming pool called Olympos. It was pretty cool; it had rapids (it pushes you along, but I SWAM AGAINST THE CURRENT!!!!!), three slides (I went on all of them), and some other things like waterfalls and Jacuzzis.

Every night (apart from the night we went to Thorpe Park) we went to something a bit like a mini Church service called ‘Where it’s @’. We sung hymns, did activities in our tent groups, prayed together, and things like that. And probably the best bit of it was . . . the AUDITIONS!

One of the leaders pretended to be someone like Simon Cowell, and the person auditioning was one of the leaders as well. That other leader’s name (in the audition) was . . . Paris Travelodge! (Gettit? Paris Hilton . . . Hilton Hotel . . . Travelodge Hotel . . . Paris Travelodge!)

She was always really funny with her dog called Snuzzle-Wuzzle-Woo-Woo. Every time she revealed something embarrassing. First she said she had enormous feet, then a nose job, then she had an ‘I think I know whodunnit’ look (every time she said that, she put her finger next to her mouth, with her mouth in a little circle), then her assistant had to feed her porridge, then she had witch fingers (she made her fingers bend stiff when she every time she said it), and finally she could bat her eyelashes. And every time, she was auditioning for the wrong film! For instance, when she thought it was a tragedy film, she had her assistant feed her porridge (which, as she said, was a real tragedy), but that film was really the day before, and that that day was Harry Potter! So she said, “No way! You mean I’ve revealed that not only I have enormous feet, etc. etc.” And the other leader made his hands into a W and said, “WAY!!!” And so the next day she comes in and does the witch fingers, but, of course, the Harry Potter film was the day before! And so it went on like that, except on the last night, where the film he was auditioning for needed someone who could do all of those things. The moral of those sketches? God has made everyone different, but that makes them all special in different ways.

After ‘Where it’s @’, we went to the After Show. We did the Funky Chicken, the ‘NNNEEEEWWWWSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’ (funny news reports with pictures of the different people on the camp), ‘What’s Hot and What’s Not?’, and the Gender World Championships (boys vs. girls; boys won!), and other fun things. We had Hot Chocolate while it was on.

That’s basically it . . . but I can tell you, it was totally AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, well, that’s it from me!

Waddle On!