Palaver 2015 - Friday Night

This evening, Akela and I arrived at Palaver 2015. We are really looking forward to a great weekend and it certainly looks like a reasonable crowd this year.

Tonight, after room allocation and a short welcome, it was time to participate in some short activities. We could do as many or as few as we wanted. The activities (or mini activities as they were called) included:

Water Guns and Rubber Ducks – needing to knock over the Ducks by using the water guns

Pick up the ball – Pick up as many balls as you can with a fishing net

Obstacle Course – riding a blow up fish then wearing a life jacket and goggles

Making Sock Puppets – we did this one and didn’t quite get to put their eyes on them. Akela thinks she wants to put button eyes on them (Which means she is going to need to sew them on). So we put on their hair, and put them in our bag to bring home.

After supper, it was time to sit around and have a chat with the other people who were attending Palaver for the weekend.  It was a good evening, but the warmth of the sleeping bags was also a welcome site.

 

We will apologise for the photo - Akela forgot to use the flash and the lighting in the room was not the best for such a photo

The Start of Palaver

Today, it was time to get ready for another weekend away with Akela. The reason we are going away is because it is Palaver weekend. This is a weekend where Cub Leaders get together, in a relaxed friendly environment to network, make friends and to exchange ideas.

We arrived early as we had gotten a lift up to Woodhouse (where we were staying in the Rymill Conference Centre) and were lucky enough to have our choice of rooms. Once we set up, it wasn’t long before other leaders started to arrive and name tags were donned, so people could get to know which sixes they were in for the weekend. These small groups were so that people could attend activity sessions together.

The evening was relaxed, with some getting to know you mixing activities, a lot of laughter and fun was had. Certainly was enjoyable seeing people mix and getting to know each other in a great atmosphere!

After some great supper (which included fairy bread!) people slowly started making their way to bed. But not before more laughter, and socializing (I think there is going to be a lot of that happening this weekend!)