Hi, folks, we've had a very busy and enjoyable day, despite the rain!
Everyone is in the theatre for timeout, and we are going to have a scavenger hunt indoors and a barbecue in the kitchen later.
We're all hale and hearty, we're looking forward to getting home to Orkney and seeing you all again!
Well, we all survived Day 3! As you can see from the photos, Groups 1 & 2 went on the zip wire and adventure course in the morning. Groups 3&4 did dry-slope skiing and everyone orienteered in the afternoon.
This evening we had a video-conference with Mr G. Many of us were able to catch up with him and it was good to see him.
Unfortunately, we don't have a memory card adapter for the other cameras in the group so some photos will have to wait until we get back before we can upload them. Mr B has been busy videoing the groups, so there will be video footage to see at some point after the trip too.
Tomorrow, Groups 1 and 2 are climbing and abseiling in the morning with canoeing and archery in the afternoon. Groups 3 and 4 will be on the zip wire and adventure course in the morning and tackling the silver maze in the afternoon.
Everyone is watching "School of Rock" tonight in the theatre (if they can stay awake long enough - several pillows have been smuggled in!).
We're all very tired, but happy. The Abernethy Nethybridge team have done us proud once again!
Catch up with you tomorrow folks, we are reading your comments and really appreciate them.
J got a Hero of the Day cape for trying to save Mrs K from sinking in the bog!
Here's a few words from the groups here at Nethy:
"Group 1 morning - We did dry-slope ski-ing. It was fun and we fell over (a lot!).
Group 1 afternoon Silver Maze - there were a lot of problems, but we worked well as a team and succeeded (despite Mrs K sinking knee deep in stinky mud).
Group 3 morning - We did indoor wall climbing blindflolded as challenge. One of our group did it in 28 seconds, most did it in a minute. We also went abseiling up an enormous tree and Mr B also joined in. (He was actually excellent).
Group 3 afternoon - We did archery in the afternoon and played a few games and competitions. Steve the instructor was really good. Canoeing was awesome, especially the racing, doing the limbo under the branches and jumping in at the end, except it was freezing!" We had to run and put our equipment away quickly and run up to the chalets to get our swimming stuff. We warmed up in the pool playing basketball.
We miss you all, but we're having the best fun.
Overall, it was very tiring, we will probably all sleep well tonight!"
Hi, folks, here we are setting off on the "Hjaltland". It was slightly rough at one point, but everyone managed to keep their lunches down! Our lads and lasses were so well-behaved a passenger complimented the group.
Even though it was a long journey on the bus, everyone had great fun. We made a toilet stop at Brora and collected our fantastic double-cone Capaldi ice creams. We watched a film on the rest of the way down.
We pulled into the Nethybridge Centre at 5pm, had a bit of a chat with our main instructor. We went for dinner, having a scrumptious pasta bolognese/vegetarian hotpot followed by bread and butter pudding. Everyone is busy phoning home and spending their money at the tuck shop.
We are going into the Timeout evening get-together session soon and our sources inform us that it has something to do with Mr Incredible!
Insch Primary School from Aberdeenshire are here and we've already started making friends.
All in all, it has been a peaceful journey, exciting arrival, enjoyable evening and we're really looking forward to tomorrow's activities.
If you want to see the rest of today's photos, click on the Day 1 link to the right and then click on any of the thumbnail images to see the photos in full size.
Check in tomorrow night to see how we got on, and don't forget to click on the comments link below to see or add any comments.
Primary 7 are going to Abernethy Outdoor Centre in Nethybridge on Monday 28th April.
Click here to go to the Abernethy Trust Website.
The pupils will be updating you with news and photos of each days activities.
Please call back on Monday evening to see how things went on their first day.
Click on any of the thumbnail images on this page to see the full size photos or click on the photo album links on the right to see all the other photos from each day.
Click on the comments link below to see or add any comments.
