DAY 1
Wow, what can I say? Carlingford is definitely one of the best trips I've had in a long time. It was just amazing! We were up bright and early on Monday morning and arrived at Esso absolutely buzzing with the excitement. The funny thing is everyone came with these hugeee suitcases, you'd swear we we're going for a month! The bus journey went fairly quickly due to the fact that we were all singing songs and chatting about the day ahead. We arrived in Carlingford and the first thing that caught my eye was the gorgeous scenery. We were looking out at the sea, and I could see ruins of a castle in the distance. We went through this quaint little village that had an old sweet shop and the likes, not forgetting the Chinese and the chipper. We went into the centre which is right in the middle of the little village. We all went into the main room upstairs and we were divided into 2 big groups.
My group's first activity was laser shooting. the weather wasn't great but that didn't stop us form having a good time! It was a great start to the day, I really enjoyed it! (Although the walk up to it was hell but that's just because I'm extremely unfit) but anyway, our team obviously won :)
We went back to the centre after about 45 minutes or an hour to the centre for our lunch which was rather tashty, chips and sausage rolls After that we went back out and walked a good 15 minutes to a field down the road where there were group activities and challenges. We were split into groups with 10 people in each. There were loads of challenging games that required teamwork so it was a bit of bonding time for us all! Again the weather was bad, well just a little drizzly but we didn't mind.
When we got back to the centre we were given our rooms. We got to choose who was in each room. We took the room of 8 in the apartments that were separate from the centre, you had to walk a tiny bit through the village to get to our rooms. Melissa, Aideen, Lauren O'R, Karen, Holly and I were in one room while our other friends were in the other 2 rooms. Our teacher Ms O'C was in another room, so shoutout to her for putting up with us!
We had dinner ( meatballs and pasta, yum yum!) after we got settled in, and afterwards we we went out for our third and last activity of the day which was a forest walk in the dark...it wasn't really dark, it was at about 7:30 in the evening. It was a long but refreshing walk to the forest, ( we had to take a detour because of cows on the road, but we didn't mind because we avoided a steep hill....which is always a plus! ;) ) We arrived in the forest and we were given blindfolds. First we decided Melissa would be the leader and then we put on our blindfolds. We were guided by a rope along the side of the forest which we kept a tight hold of. Our guides were making sounds and spraying water in our faces, which made us all scream. It was so much fun. By now it was pretty dark so we played a few hiding games so it was great. We heard the other group who were doing their blindfolded walk and we absolutely roared in their ears. They were PETRIFIED. Especially Hannah C who fell down like a bowling pin from such fear...sorry Hannah :) After this we played another game and then our guides decided to bring us for a walk down the road to a underground tunnel. I didn't know what was going on, but when we arrived it was small tunnel that you had to crouch down in but it was PITCH DARK and when I say pitch dark I mean pitch pitch dark. Hope ye aren't afraid of the dark boys and girls. All I could hear was "Umm, I can't tell if my eyes are open or not..." It was really scary because it was really small and I was afraid a rat or something would maul my face off but we all made it out alive. Afterwards we walked back to the centre, while me and Niamh O'H exchanged a few ghost stories :) To my excitement we were allowed to go to the Chinese or the chipper, I went to the chipper for a few chicken nuggets and they were fabulous with a capital F. We ate them back in the centre and then went back to our rooms to settle down for the night at about 10.30. We were chatting away and then went to sleep later. And that's it folks, that's the end of the first day. I'll continue on in my next blogpost!
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