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Well, the weekend has come and gone, and if you weren’t there you missed out!
As a newcomer to Le Weekend with the club, I didn’t know what to expect.
We pulled out of the Church avenue early on Friday evening, and made our
way up to the coast. After getting settled in, and fighting over which bed
we would sleep in, we went for a nice walk along the coast, which was a
good trick to get us all nice and tired for an early night (yeah right!).
In the evening, we played some icebreaker games. Then Lyle and Jake showed
us all a trick that they’d learnt, and we spent the whole weekend trying
to figure out how they had done it! Lyle finally showed us some mercy on
the Sunday afternoon and spilled the beans on the whole affair!
On Saturday morning those doing orderlies managed to wipe the sleep from
their eyes to make us all a lovely breakfast that was wolfed down faster
than the time it took Stuart to go fetch his (massive) camera from the
boys room! The lads enjoyed a good game of footie, while the girls had
a granny meeting indoors-it wasn’t our fault though: someone had lost
the hockey ball!
On Saturday night we played the box game (another one I'd never played
before) and I have to say it was good fun! Many unusual tactics were
used by everyone-including one lad, who could bend himself into the most
unbelievable shapes, and easily managed to pick the cardboard up from
the floor!
When we played the detective game, Craig managed to make us all laugh
with his elaborate, and very loud deaths. This wasn't the only time
Craig was loud on the weekend-he let rip a very loud, wet and smelly
one on Saturday night that made everyone cringe - even Sake!!
We did quite a bit of walking on the weekend, with Lyle leading us on
walks along the beach. The weather was brilliant, so we were able to
take advantage of it, and made a couple of trips to the sand dunes.
It was a real highlight of our weekend ‘trip‘-and trip was what a
lot of people did as they made their way back down! Crazy folk ran
the whole way down the dunes, while the more sensible people amongst
us carefully slid down; or better yet simply watched from below!
Jake added a twist of his own to the fun as he began to ‘leap’
down the dune, and when he made it to the bottom alive, Steve decided
to follow suit. Poor Stuart became yet another victim of the dunes
when Steve fell after a big leap, rolled right into him, and knocked
him over! Carnage! Of course John was on hand with the video camera,
so it’s all on tape, so that poor Stuart can relive his ordeal over
and over and over...
Paul, Laura and Lyle contributed some really challenging daily devotions
for us all to digest over the weekend. It was great to enjoy fellowship
with others while we were there. We all went to Church on Sunday morning,
then came back for a lovely lunch prepared by Yvonne and the girls! The big
rugby match between Ireland and England was on that afternoon, so most people
watched some of it, including Johnny Mitchell and Craig Evans, who were the
only ones who were cheering for England! Nonetheless, everyone else
supported Ireland until the end... even if they did lose!
It was a very tired but happy bunch of people that made their way home on
Sunday afternoon, and many of us made it to church that evening as well!
Thank you to everyone who helped to make the weekend a success, including
the drivers who did an excellent job of ferrying us all around! Next
stop - camp! I can’t wait...!
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